Ann Marie Di Mambro

Ann Marie di Mambro
Born (1950-06-18) 18 June 1950
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

References

  1. ↑ "Scottish-Italian News". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  2. ↑ "Book collections". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Scottish education study document". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  4. ↑ "Higher Drama Curriculum, Scotland". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  5. 1 2 Catherine Lucy Czerkawska; Philip Howard. Scotland Plays. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  6. 1 2 Scot-Free new Scottish Plays. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  7. 1 2 "British Film Institute Database". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  8. 1 2 "IMDB entry for Ann Marie Di Mambro". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 Play – Blaze". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  10. ↑ "Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  11. 1 2 "History of Machair". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "British Playwrights' Database". Retrieved 5 March 2009.

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