Ann Lambert has written over 25 stage and radio plays in the past 35 years. Her first play, The Wall, won first prize in the Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Competition, and was produced at The Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. Self Offense won seven awards at the Quebec Drama Festival, then went on to production at Cucaracha Theatre in New York. She has written several dramas for CBC radio, including Force of Circumstance, which was broadcast in Australia in 1997. Her stage play, Parallel Lines, was featured at the fourth International Women Playwrights Conference in Galway, Ireland in 1997, and was produced at The University of Oklahoma that year as well. It was published in an anthology of plays dealing with refugee stories entitled Along Human Lines by Blizzard. Ann’s work is also featured in several other anthologies, including Another Perfect Piece, (Playwrights Canada Press) She Speaks (PCP) and 32 Degrees, (DC Books). Very Heaven was first produced at The Centaur Theatre in 1999, and received its European premiere at Focus Theatre in Dublin in 2004. It was published in 2000 by Blizzard publishing. Very Heaven and The Mary Project, (co-written with Laura Mitchell), were featured at the Fifth International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens, Greece, in 2000, at infinitheatre in Montreal in 2001. The Mary Project then went on to open at LA MAMA in Melbourne, Australia in 2002. Two Short Women (which she also directed) was produced by Right Now! in Montreal in 2007. It was featured in a double-bill with her very first play, The Wall, and enjoyed critical and popular success. The Assumption of Empire had a very successful workshop production in Montreal in 2009 at Mainline Theatre. Jocasta’s Noose, also directed by Ann, was named a Best Bet at the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2012 and nominated for the Beyond the Mountain Award. Two Short Women was featured at the Women International Playwrights Conference in Stockholm, as well as at the Wildside Festival (Centaur Theatre) in 2013. Ann directed The Guest, written by her daughter, Alice Abracen, which was nominated for a Most Promising New Company award at the Montreal Fringe Festival.
She has been teaching at Dawson College since 1991, where for the last 12 years, she has written, directed and produced shows with The Dawson Theatre Collective which consistently play to sold out audiences. Her most recent show, A Midsummer Night’s Kickass Dream, opened in May 2018, and once again featured a cast of over 30 students. Ann is the former head of The Playwriting Program at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Ann’s first novel, The Birds That Stay was published by Second Story Press in Toronto in February, 2019. It has recently been nominated for the Concordia University Best First Book Prize. Her second book in the Russell and Leduc series, The Dogs of Winter, will be published in the fall of 2020.
Ann is also the vice-president of The Theresa Foundation (www.theresafoundation.com), dedicated to supporting AIDS-orphaned children and their grandmothers, the education of Malawian girls, and alleviating food insecurity in several villages in Malawi, Africa.
She has been teaching at Dawson College since 1991, where for the last 12 years, she has written, directed and produced shows with The Dawson Theatre Collective which consistently play to sold out audiences. Her most recent show, A Midsummer Night’s Kickass Dream, opened in May 2018, and once again featured a cast of over 30 students. Ann is the former head of The Playwriting Program at the National Theatre School of Canada.
Ann’s first novel, The Birds That Stay was published by Second Story Press in Toronto in February, 2019. It has recently been nominated for the Concordia University Best First Book Prize. Her second book in the Russell and Leduc series, The Dogs of Winter, will be published in the fall of 2020.
Ann is also the vice-president of The Theresa Foundation (www.theresafoundation.com), dedicated to supporting AIDS-orphaned children and their grandmothers, the education of Malawian girls, and alleviating food insecurity in several villages in Malawi, Africa.