Anne Marie Cammarato

Anne Marie Cammarato

Anne Marie Cammarato is a playwright and director, whose plays include Hazel, Bobby James, Milk Pie, A Scar, 10 Months, and The Big Room. Her work has been developed at PlayPenn, Theatre Exile, Temple University, University of the Arts and the Resident Ensemble Players. She has worked throughout the country at theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Madison Repertory Theater, Theatre X, Milwaukee...
Anne Marie Cammarato is a playwright and director, whose plays include Hazel, Bobby James, Milk Pie, A Scar, 10 Months, and The Big Room. Her work has been developed at PlayPenn, Theatre Exile, Temple University, University of the Arts and the Resident Ensemble Players. She has worked throughout the country at theatres including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Madison Repertory Theater, Theatre X, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, and Delaware Theatre Company, where she served as Artistic Director for six seasons. Anne Marie studied at North Carolina School of the Arts, New York University, and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Temple University. She was a finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund prize (2015) and has been nominated for/awarded multiple Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre. In 2012, she was the Established Literary Fellow in Playwriting for the State of Delaware. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and is Playwright in Residence at the University of Mississippi.

Plays

  • A SCAR
    Abby and Sara are thrown together by a high school homework assignment and discover a bond that is not easily explained or broken. What happens when an entire generation of a community is affected by a crime, yet doesn't have a memory of it? A SCAR is a coming-of-age story for those whose innocence was lost before they realized it.
  • BOBBY JAMES
    Bobby James is an appliance salesman in small town, post-fact America and he has a story he thinks you should hear. While searching for the details of his friend’s death in Afghanistan, he unwittingly stumbles upon a wanted terrorist, setting him on the riskiest of adventures, without ever leaving his living room. Inspired by a true story, this ordinary guy finds himself in extraordinary circumstances as his...
    Bobby James is an appliance salesman in small town, post-fact America and he has a story he thinks you should hear. While searching for the details of his friend’s death in Afghanistan, he unwittingly stumbles upon a wanted terrorist, setting him on the riskiest of adventures, without ever leaving his living room. Inspired by a true story, this ordinary guy finds himself in extraordinary circumstances as his friendships and sanity are tested, leading him to ask: what do loyalty, trust and heroism mean to you?