Ann Marie Di Mambro

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Ann Marie di Mambro
Born (1950-06-18) 18 June 1950 (age 74)
Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation Playwright, screenwriter
Nationality Scottish
Period 1985 – present
Genre Television drama, theatre
Notable works Machair, Tally's Blood
Notable awards The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 1994-5

Ann Marie Di Mambro (born 18 June 1950) is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter of Italian extraction.[1] Her theatre plays have been performed widely; they are also published individually and in collections[2] and are studied in schools for the Scottish curriculum's Higher Drama and English.[3][4]

Biographical details

Ann Marie Di Mambro studied at Glasgow University, Girton College, Cambridge, and Bolton College of Education, before becoming a teacher. She gave up teaching to write for theatre.[5] Her plays have been performed in Scotland's main theatres as well as touring to other venues across Scotland.[6] In addition to theatre plays, she writes drama for British television,[7][8] and British radio.[9]

From 1989 – 1990, she was the Thames Television Resident Playwright at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.[5] She has been commissioned to write plays by the Traverse Theatre and by Cumbernauld Theatre.[6] She won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for 1994-5.[10]

Television writing

Di Mambro has written for the following British television serials and series:[7][8]

Machair

Di Mambro was also screenwriter on the first ever long-running Gaelic drama television serial Machair created by Peter May and Janice Hally. Along with Hally, Di Mambro wrote scripts in English before they were translated into Gaelic. Fewer than 2% of the Scottish population are able to speak Gaelic but the show achieved a 30% audience share, making it into the Top Ten of programmes viewed in Scotland.[11] Machair was nominated for production and writing awards at The Celtic Film Festival and by Writers Guild of Great Britain[11]

Theatre plays

  • Ae Fond Kiss (2007) Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh[12]
  • Scotland Matters (1992) 7:84 Theatre Company (touring company), Scotland[12]
  • Brothers of Thunder (1998) published in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London, 1998[12]
  • Tally's Blood (1990) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh[12]
  • The Letter Box (1989) Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye[12]
  • Long Story Short (1989) 7:84 Theatre Company (touring company), Scotland[12]
  • Visible Differences (1988) TAG, Theatre About Glasgow[12]
  • Sheila (1988) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh[12]
  • Dixon's Has Blasted (1987) Mayfest, Glasgow[12]
  • Joe (1987) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh[12]
  • Hocus Pocus (1986) Annexe Theatre Company, Glasgow[12]

References

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