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Marianne Letitia Ackerman (born 1952) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and journalist. ''Holy Fools + 2 Stories'', her fourth work of prose fiction, was published by Guernica Editions in 2014. He play ''Triplex Nervosa'' premiered at Centaur Theatre in April, 2015. == Life and career == Marianne Ackerman was born in 1952 in Belleville, Ontario and grew up on a farm in Prince Edward County.〔(Author web site )〕 She received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honours) from Carleton University in 1976. She spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris studying French language and culture before receiving a Master of Arts in Drama from the University of Toronto in 1981. From the early 1980s, Ackerman lived in Montreal, where she worked as a freelance journalist and as theatre critic for the ''Montreal Gazette'', winning the Nathan Cohen Award for theatre criticism. In the late eighties, she founded a bilingual theatre company, Theatre 1774, which staged her plays ''L'Affaire Tartuffe'', ''Woman by a Window'', ''Céleste'' and ''Blue Valentine'' as well as her adaptations of August Strindberg's ''Miss Julie'' and William Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure''. The company also staged ''Echo", a play developed by Robert Lepage from Ann Diamond's book of poetry, ''A Nun's Story'', co-produced with Theatre Passe Muraille. She and Lepage collaborated on ''Alienouidet'', a play about the actor Edmund Kean in Canada, directed by Lepage at the NAC. ''Venus of Dublin'', a distilled version of the story, premiered at the Centaur Theatre in 2000, and has since been produced several times. After leaving Theatre 1774 and Quebec in 1997, she lived in the hamlet of La Roque Alric, France, moving back to Montreal in 2004.〔(McArthur and Company web site )〕 Her freelance articles, essays, reviews and criticism have appeared in The Walrus, The Montreal Gazette, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Theatre Review, The Guardian Weekly, En Route Magazine and other publications. She has taught courses in playwrighting and the history of Quebec theatre at McGill University. Ackerman currently lives in Montreal, where she publishes the online arts journal The Rover (roverarts.com).〔 She is married to Gwyn Campbell, a professor of economic history at McGill University, and has a daughter, Fiona, who is an artist living in Vancouver.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marianne Ackerman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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