Introduction

 

Marianne Ackerman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and journalist.

Co-founder of Montreal's THEATRE 1774, she has written a dozen plays. Her film credits include directing and writing the docu-drama White Brush Red Wine Death in a Paris Café, for the Bravo Arts and Entertainment channel, shown on TéléQuébec and at festivals in Montreal and Paris. She also wrote episodes of The Hunger for the American network Showtime and has recently completed Double Bed, a screenplay based on her stage play Blue Valentine.

Her novels include the best-selling Jump, which takes place during the heady days surrounding the 1995 Referendum in Quebec, and Matters of Hart - 2005. Set in Montreal, Los Angeles and Vancouver, Matters of Hart is a picaresque tale about the burdens and joys of brotherhood. Both novels are published by McArthur & Co of Toronto.

An award-winning journalist (Nathan Cohen Award for theatre criticism, 1985 and 1988), M Ackerman writes for several Canadian and British publications. She lives in Montreal with her husband, Gwyn Campbell.

 

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