Past Event

The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Department of English Language and Literature invite you to join us for the 2024-2025 Munro Beattie Lecture, “Imps and Imposters: Where Do Stories Come From” with author, actor, and playwright, Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcast host.  Her work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Chalmers, the Governor General’s, Gemini, Dora Mavor Moore, John Drainie, the Gascon-Thomas, the Canadian Authors Association, the Canadian Booksellers Association, and the Commonwealth Prize.  Her writing for the stage includes the plays, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet), Belle Moral:  A Natural History, and Hamlet-911; the libretto for the chamber opera, Nigredo Hotel, and book and lyrics for Anything That Moves; her novels are Fall On Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies, Adult Onset, and Fayne.  Ann-Marie graduated from the Acting Program of The National Theatre School of Canada in 1980.  In 2019 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.  She is married to theatre director, Alisa Palmer, with whom she has two children.

No registration is required. We hope you can join us at 7:30pm on February 4 at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (290 Lisgar Street).