Ana-Maria Bamberger

Ana-Maria Bamberger is a playwright of Romanian origin working in French, English, German, and Romanian. Her plays are performed in theatres and at festivals in more than 15 countries. Bamberger studied medicine and worked in medical research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (United States) and at the University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany. She began writing plays in 2003, and attended a Playwriting Masterclass with Stephen Jeffreys at the Royal Court Theatre in London. She was Visiting Dramatist and Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Arts and Culture, the Paris Campus of Kent University. Bamberger has a close artistic relationship with the actress Olga Tudorache who performed in her first three plays.

Life

Ana-Maria Bamberger is a playwright of Romanian origin working in French, English, German, and Romanian. Her plays are performed in theatres and at festivals in more than 15 countries.

A native of Bucharest, Bamberger studied medicine and worked in medical research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (United States) and at the University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany. She began writing plays in 2003. Playwriting Masterclass with Stephen Jeffreys at the Royal Court Theatre in London (2011). She was Visiting Dramatist and Assistant Professor at the Paris School of Arts and Culture, the Paris Campus of Kent University.

She formed a close artistic relationship with the actress Olga Tudorache who performed in her first three plays.

The FOYER Theater Magazin, 3Sat, described her plays as "psychologically subtle, combining humour and depth". The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees "a deep seriousness behind biting sarcasm".

Selected plays and productions

References

External links

• "Official web site".