Ann Marie Di Mambro

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Ann Marie di Mambro
Born (1950-06-18) 18 June 1950 (age 75)
Glasgow, Scotland
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter
NationalityScottish
Period1985 – present
GenreTelevision drama, theatre
Notable works Machair , Tally's Blood
Notable awardsThe 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]

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Biography

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] From 1989 to 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. [7]

In addition to theatre plays, she writes drama for British radio [8] and British television. [9] [10] These included multiple episodes of the BBC's popular continuing dramas: Doctors , River City , EastEnders and Casualty .

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

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Scottish-Italian News". Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  2. ↑ "Book collections" . Retrieved 5 March 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Scottish education study document". Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  4. ↑ Mambro, Ann Marie Di (February 2002). Higher Drama Curriculum, Scotland. Learning and Teaching in Scotland. ISBN   9781859559178 . Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  5. 1 2 Catherine Lucy Czerkawska; Philip Howard (1998). Scotland Plays. Nick Hern Books. ISBN   9781854593832 . Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  6. 1 2 Byrne, John (1990). Scot-Free new Scottish Plays. ISBN   9781854590176 . Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  7. ↑ "Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  8. ↑ "BBC Radio 3 Play – Blaze". Archived from the original on 6 July 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "British Film Institute Database". Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  10. ↑ "IMDB entry for Ann Marie Di Mambro". IMDb . 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". Archived from the original on 14 May 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
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