MARIANNE
ACKERMAN
Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS:
5300
Waverly St., Montreal. H2T 2X7
email: macke1999@aol.com
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BORN:
Belleville, Ontario. Canada
LANGUAGES:
English, French
EDUCATION:
1981: M.A., University of Toronto, Drama.
1977: French Studies, Sorbonne, Paris
1976: B.A. Hon. Carleton University, Political
Science
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
NOVELS:
Jump, published by McArthur & Co, spring 2000.
Piers’ Desire – manuscript.
Matters of Hart – in progress. Note: Matters of Hart will be published by McArthur and Company
, 2005.
TRANSLATION:
Jealousy, by Sacha Guitry for the Shaw Festival, 2004
The Slap, by Sacha Guitry, 2004
FILM, TELEVISION, RADIO
DRAMA:
Writer, Double Bed, full-length feature adapted from
my play, funded by Telefilm Canada, 2002
Writer, Her Kind of Music, full-length feature, in
progress.
Director, writer. Virtual Birthday, 6-minute drama
for Storylab Inc.,1998.
Director, writer. White Brush Red Wine Death in a
Paris Café, 55-minute feature created in collaboration with
Gregor Hiltner. Produced by Livorno Film, 1997. Bravo! Telequebec.
Writer, No Radio, 30-minute teleplay for The
Hunger, produced by Telescene Ltd.
Writer and co-producer of The Vernissage, 30-minute
TV drama for BRAVO! Arts and Entertainment Network, broadcast,
September 1990; presented
at Nouveau Festival de Cinema sur l'Art, Montreal, 1996.
Featuring Gregor Hiltner. Dir. Guy Sprung.
Writer, Juliette : 90-minute adaptation of
Yves Beauchemin's novel for CBC Radio, 1994.
Writer, Common Ground: 14-part dramatic series
commissioned and produced by CBC Radio; co-written with Janis
Spence. Broadcast: 1993.
Writer, The Back Stairs: 10 minute drama
commissioned and produced by CBC Radio. 1992.
THEATRE: Artistic
director of THEATRE 1774. 1988 - 1997.
Co-founder (1988) of THEATRE 1774 (with
Clare Schapiro).
PLAYS:
Writer, Venus of Dublin, Premiered at Centaur
Theatre, April 2000
Writer and director, Blue Valentine, for THEATRE
1774, September, 1996.
Writer and director, Céleste, for THEATRE
1774, October - November, 1995.
Co-writer, Sliding in All Directions, with
texts by Judith Thompson, Norbert Rubesaat,
Donald Molnar, John Mighton. Directed by Guy Sprung,
1995.
Adaptation of Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, for
THEATRE 1774, 1994.
Adaptation of Measure for Measure, directed by
Suzanne Lantagne, THEATRE 1774, 1993.
L’Affaire Tartuffe, or the Garrison Officers
Rehearse Molière, published by Nuage Press, 1993.
Woman by a Window, directed by Paula de Vasconcelos,
THEATRE 1774, 1992.
Alanienouidet, co-written with Robert Lepage, NAC;
Carefour International, 1992.
Sharansky, directed by Dora Wasserman, produced by
the Saidye Bronfman Centre, 1989.
Grande Ideas, directed by Joanna Mercer, produced at
King’s Theatre, Nova Scotia, 1989.
Night Driving, cabaret directed by Tyrone Benskin,
Cszarda Cabaret, 1989.
Snakeprints, one-act play, Quebec Drama Festival,
(Montreal), The Theatre Centre, (Toronto) 1988.
JOURNALISM:
* free-lance contributor: The Guardian Weekly;
En Route Magazine;
* free-lance book reviewer, The Globe and
Mail, Montreal Gazette
* book columnist, Chapter One, Montreal
Gazette, Sept. 1995 - February, 1996
* free-lance magazine writer: Saturday Night,
2001. Maclean’s, Weekend Magazine, Reader’s Digest,
Globe and Mail, 1977-83
* feature writer, then theatre critic, The
Gazette, 1984 to 1987
* staff writer, Montreal Daily News, 1988
* contributor, C.B.C. Radio
(Daybreak) as arts commentator 1988-89
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, HONOURABLE
MENTIONS:
Best New Play, Best Anglophone Production,
(nomination) for Blue Valentine.
Academie Quebecois de Théâtre, 1998.
Honourable Mention, Meanwhile Goodbye, Playwright's
Union of Canada International Monologue Contest,
1996-97.
Best English-Language Production Award, 1995 -
Academie Quebecois de Théâtre, for Sliding in All
Directions. Produced by THEATRE 1774.
King’s Theatre New Play Award (1989) for
Grande Ideas .
Best New Play Award - Quebec Drama Festival
(1988) for Snakeprints.
Jurors Award - Quebec Drama Festival
(1989) for Blue Valentine.
Nathan Cohen National Award for Theatre Criticism,
1988, 1985.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
* Meanwhile Goodbye, in Going Solo, collection of
prose by women, published by Nuage Press,1998.
*Céleste and Woman by a Window,
published by Nuage Press, April, 1996.
*L'Affaire Tartuffe, or the Garrison Officers
Rehearse Molière, full-length play; NuAge Editions, 1993;
2nd edition, 1997.
*«Bridging the Two Solitudes- English and
French Theatre in Quebec» in Contemporary Canadian
Theatre:
New World Visions, Simon and Pierre, 1985.
*«A Crisis of Vision: Anglophone Theatre in
Montreal» in Canadian Theatre Review. Spring 1986.
*"L’impatience d’une mère» in
Cahiers de théâtre Jeu, Vol. 40.Winter 1986
*Profile of Michel Tremblay, Saturday Night
Magazine, May 1988
(won NATHAN
COHEN AWARD, Mention in AUTHORS AWARDS, 1988).
*Contributed to «Shakespeare’s Women»
in, Shakespeare: Still our Contemporary?
Published by International
Association of Theatre Critics, London, England, 1988.