Ann Marie Di Mambro
Template:EngvarB Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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]
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
- Hocus Pocus (1986) Annexe Theatre Company, Glasgow[12]
- Joe (1987) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh[12]
- Dixon's Has Blasted (1987) Mayfest, Glasgow[12]
- Sheila (1988) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh[12]
- Visible Differences (1988) TAG, Theatre About Glasgow[12]
- Long Story Short (1989) 7:84 Theatre Company (touring company), Scotland[12]
- The Letter Box (1989) Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye[12]
- Tally's Blood (1990) Traverse Theatre, 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]
- Ae Fond Kiss (2007) Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh[12]
Filmography
- Dramarama (1987-1988)
- Winners and Losers (1989)
- Take the High Road (1988 - 1995, also script editor)
- Doctor Finlay (1993-1996)
- Pie in the Sky (1997)
- Hope and Glory (Series 2, episode 2) (2000)
- Taggart (2002)
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2004)
- Casualty (1995-2007)
- EastEnders (2003-2011)
- Doctors (2014)
- Eve (2015)
- The Coroner (2015-2016)
- River City (2007-2011, 2022)
References
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External links
- Cambridge University Press Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights Editors, Elaine Austin and Janelle Reinelt.
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- Ann Marie Di Mambro – complete guide to the Playwright and Plays Template:Webarchive
- Article in East Kilbride News
- Article in The Scotsman newspaper
- Article in The Sunday Herald
- Article in The Times of London online
- Review in The Scotsman