Ann Marie Di Mambro is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter of Italian extraction.
Education
Her theatre plays have been performed widely. They are also published individually and in collections and are studied in schools for the Scottish curriculum"s Higher Drama and English. Ann Marie Di Mambro studied at Glasgow University, Girton College, Cambridge, and Bolton College of Education, before becoming a teacher.
Career
She gave up teaching to write for theatre. Her plays have been performed in Scotland"s main theatres as well as touring to other venues across Scotland. In addition to theatre plays, she writes drama for British television, and British radio.
From 1989 – 1990, she was the Thames Television Resident Playwright at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
She has been commissioned to write plays by the Traverse Theatre and by Cumbernauld Theatre. Di Mambro has written for the following British television serials and series:
Take the High Road
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Casualty
EastEnders
River City
Kicking for Home
The Store
Taggart
Holby City
Flesh and Blood
Pie in the Sky
Dramarama
Winners and Losers
Doctor Finlay.
Di Mambro was also screenwriter on the first ever long-running Gaelic drama television serial created by Peter May and Janice Hally. Along with Hally, Di Mambro wrote scripts in English before they were translated into Gaelic. was nominated for production and writing awards at The Celtic Film Festival and by Writers Guild of Great Britain
Ae Fond Kiss (2007) Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Scotland Matters (1992) 7:84 Theatre Company (touring company), Scotland
Brothers of Thunder (1998) published in "Scotland Plays" Nick Hern Books, London, 1998
Tally"s Blood (1990) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
The Letter Box (1989) Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye
Long Story Short (1989) 7:84 Theatre Company (touring company), Scotland
Visible Differences (1988) Technical Architecture Group, Theatre About Glasgow
Sheila (1988) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Dixon"s Has Blasted (1987) Mayfest, Glasgow
Joe (1987) Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Hocus Pocus (1986) Annexe Theatre Company, Glasgow.