Question: What careers did both Ann-Marie MacDonald and Colette have during their lives?

Context articles: Colette
Belle Moral
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Doc Zone
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Fall on Your Knees
The Way the Crow Flies
The Arab's Mouth
Nigredo Hotel
Ann-Marie Gallagher

Colette (] ; Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
 Her best known work, the novella "Gigi" (1944), was the basis for the film and Lerner and Loewe stage production of the same name.
 She was also a mime, an actress and a journalist.
Belle Moral is a play by Ann-Marie MacDonald which premiered at the Shaw Festival in 2005.
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actress and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.
 She is of Lebanese descent through her mother.
Doc Zone was a documentary series on CBC Television.
 It features both independently produced and in-house productions.
 It was presented by author, actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald.
 It has been nominated for the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery.
Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald.
 The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex Piper Family.
 It is a story of "inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles."
 Beginning in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I and ending in New York City, the troubled Piper sisters depend on one another for survival.
The Way the Crow Flies is a novel by Canadian writer Ann-Marie MacDonald.
 It was first published by Knopf Canada in 2003.
The Arab's Mouth is a 1990 play by Ann-Marie MacDonald which she later revised to create "Belle Moral", at which point most of the Arabic references were cut.
 The title refers to a shape found on a stone by the central character—a circle or zero.
 First staged at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, MacDonald lightly revised the play for publication, at which point it was staged at Theatre Kingston in Kingston, Ontario.
 It is now out of print, having been superseded by "Belle Moral".
Nigredo Hotel is a chamber opera in one act composed by Nic Gotham to a libretto by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
 It premiered on 13 May 1992 at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in a production by Tapestry New Opera Works who had commissioned the opera.
 The production won two Dora Awards and the work was nominated for the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
 Subtitled "an operatic thriller", it is set in Room 7 of a run-down hotel which takes its name from the Jungian concept of Nigredo or "dark night of the soul".
 The story involves an encounter between the beautiful but crazed woman who runs the hotel and a brain surgeon forced to take refuge there after crashing his car.
Ann-Marie Gallagher is an author, historian, feminist, witch, and a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in England.
 She has written extensively on her subjects, and appears often on British radio.
 For years she has been practising, teaching, and broadcasting on witchcraft, Pagan and goddess spirituality, women's studies, magic, gender, and folklore.
 Her books include "Inner Magic: A Guide to Witchcraft", "The Way of the Goddess" and "The Spells Bible: The Definitive Guide to Charms and Enchantments".
 She is course leader for Sociology at UCLan in Preston, England.
 She is married and has three children, and lives in Lancashire, England with her husband.