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 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 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. 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

Notre cher auteur

  • 2026 Paris - Théâtre La Scène Parisienne

Carpe Diem

  • 2025 Paris - Théâtre Funambule Montmartre

The Paradoxe of Desire

One Whole Night

Talking to you

  • 2018 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse
  • 2022 Bucharest - Teatrelli
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest

Criminals

  • 2017 Bucharest - Romanian Playwrights' Theatre
  • 2019 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse

The Stone (co-authored with Christoph M. Bamberger)

  • 2013 Germany - Theater Paderborn
  • 2014 Paris - Théâtre Studio Hébertot
  • 2014 London - Tristan Bates Theatre
  • 2019 Salzburg - Kleines Theater
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest

10 Questions

  • 2011 Brighton - Marlborough Theatre
  • 2012 Romania - Anton Pann Theatre
  • 2014 Germany - Lichthof Theatre Hamburg
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest

Taxi Blues

Blind Date

  • 2011 Hamburg - Kontraste Theater

Belvedere

  • 2010 Hamburg - Kontraste Theater / Vagantenbühne Berlin
  • 2011 Romania - Classic Theatre Arad
  • 2012 London - White Bear Theatre
  • 2020 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse
  • 2021 Madrid - Teatro Sanchinarro & Teatro Carril del Conde
  • 2021 London - Old Red Lion Theatre
  • 2022 Paris - Théâtre de Nesle
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, UNITER AWARD nomination

Three O'Clock

  • 2010 Romania - National Theatre Sibiu, German Section
  • 2010 Munich - Rosstall Theatre
  • 2021 Germany - Stadttheater Weilheim
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, Best actress Award, Grand Prix Nova

The Portrait of Donna T.

  • 2008 Bucharest - Arcub Theatre / Transfer: Mic Theatre
  • 2008 Germany - EuroCentral Theatre Bonn
  • 2011 Prague - ABC Theatre
  • 2022 Paris - Théâtre Le Guichet Montparnasse
  • Radio adaptation - National Theatre Radio Bucharest, UNITER AWARD winner

Martha, Marina

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