Ann-Marie MacDonald
| Ann-Marie MacDonald | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 29, 1958 CFB Baden-Soellingen, West Germany |
| Occupation | Playwright, Novelist, Actor, Broadcast Journalist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Notable works | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Fall on Your Knees The Way the Crow Flies |
| Spouse | Alisa Palmer |
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Montreal, Quebec. 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 Literary Merit, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for her play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).
MacDonald hosted the CBC documentary series Life and Times from 1996 to 2007, and currently hosts CBC's flagship documentary program, Doc Zone. 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.
MacDonald's partner is playwright and theatre director Alisa Palmer.[2][3]
Works[edit]
Theatre[edit]
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - 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[edit]
- Fall on Your Knees (1996)
- The Way the Crow Flies (2003)
- Adult Onset (2014)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Helen Chryssides, "Prose, plays and the joy of creating", The Canberra Times, 9 April 2000, p. 20
- ^ Cole, Susan G. (September 25 – October 1, 2003). "Ann-Marie MacDonald". Now Toronto. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=54001&view=full_sptlght
External links[edit]
- Ann-Marie MacDonald official website
- Ann-Marie MacDonald's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Ann-Marie MacDonald at the Internet Movie Database
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- 1958 births
- Living people
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian television hosts
- Governor General's Award-winning dramatists
- Lesbian actresses
- Lesbian writers
- LGBT writers from Canada
- LGBT broadcasters
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- Female broadcasters
- LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- LGBT novelists
- Canadian women journalists
- Canadian television journalists
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Canadian people of Lebanese descent
