Carleton University Presents: Munro Beattie Lecture

with Ann-Marie MacDonald

Admission

Free

Tuesday

Feb , 2025

7:30pm

Eastern

Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper St. • Ottawa

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Carleton University Presents: Munro Beattie Lecture

Ann-Marie MacDonald · Photo by Lora MacDonald-Palmer

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s talent is, quite simply, staggering.

Sophie White

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 them 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.

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The Authors

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a best-selling novelist, playwright, actor, and television presenter based in Montreal and Toronto. Her work in all capacities has been honoured with multiple awards. Her plays are produced and published internationally. She is author of Fall on Your Knees, The Way the Crow Flies, and Adult Onset. Her work is translated into seventeen languages. In 2019, Ann-Marie was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her contribution to the arts and her LGBTQ2SI+ activism. Her new play, Hamlet-911 premieres this summer at The Stratford Festival. Fall on Your Knees(celebrating its 25th anniversary this year!) is an award-winning and international bestseller and only the second Canadian book to be chosen as an Oprah’s Book Club pick. Plus, Fall on Your Knees will have its world premiere stage adaptation to four cities – Toronto, London, Ottawa and Halifax – this January!