Ann Marie Di Mambro

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]

Ann Marie di Mambro
Born	(1950-06-18) 18 June 1950 (age 75) 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

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)