Ann Marie di Mambro | |
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Born | Glasgow, Scotland | 18 June 1950
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]
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 .
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]
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