Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
	MacDonald at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2015
Born	October 29, 1958 (age 65); CFB Baden-Soellingen, West Germany
Occupation	Playwright, novelist, actress, broadcast host
Nationality	Canadian
Notable works	Goodnight Desdemona; Fall on Your Knees; The Way the Crow Flies; Adult Onset
Spouse	Alisa Palmer

Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of Lebanese descent through her mother.^[1]

MacDonald won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, which was selected as a "pick" for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club. She received the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona.

MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series Life and Times for seven seasons and CBC's flagship documentary program, Doc Zone for eight. She appeared in the films I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and Better Than Chocolate, among others.

Her 2003 novel, The Way the Crow Flies, was partly inspired by the Steven Truscott case. Her novel Adult Onset was released in 2014 and is so far translated into five languages.

She was the inaugural Mordecai Richler Reading Room Writer in Residence at Concordia University, and she coaches students in the Acting and Playwriting Programs at the National Theatre School of Canada.

MacDonald is married to playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer.^[2]^[3]

Works

Theatre

This is For You, Anna - 1983 (play, collective creation)
Nancy Drew, The Case of the Missing Mother - 1984 (play, co-authored with Beverley Cooper)
Clue in the Fast Lane - 1985 (play, co-authored with Beverley Cooper)
Goodnight Desdemona – 1988 (play)
The Arab's Mouth – 1990 (play)
Nigredo Hotel – 1992 (opera libretto)
The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls – 1995 (play, co-authored with 5 others)
Anything That Moves – 2000 (book and lyrics for musical)
Belle Moral – 2004 (play; a substantially revised version of The Arab's Mouth (above))

Novels

Film

Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
Paint Cans (1994)

References

^ Helen Chryssides, "Prose, plays and the joy of creating", The Canberra Times, April 9, 2000, p. 20
^ Cole, Susan G. (September 25 – October 1, 2003). "Ann-Marie MacDonald". Now Toronto. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2007. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

[1] Helen Chryssides, "Prose, plays and the joy of creating", The Canberra Times, April 9, 2000, p. 20

[2] Cole, Susan G. (September 25 – October 1, 2003). "Ann-Marie MacDonald". Now Toronto. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2007. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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