JUDITH THOMPSON (Screenwriter)

 

Screenwriter Judith Thompson has extensive credits as writer, director, and dramaturgist.  She was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series in 1995 for the script of the CBC Movie of the week, Life with Billy.  She is a two-time Governor General’s Award Winner, in 1990 for The Other Side of the Dark (Coach House Press) and 1984 for White Biting Dog (Playwrights Canada press).  Her play, I am Yours, which was produced by the Great Canadian Theatre Company, won a Chalmers Award in 1988.  She won a second Chalmers in 1991 for Lion in the Streets.

Her direction of Tornado for the CBC and Swedish National Radio Company earned a Nellie Award for Best Drama of 1988.  She has also directed at the Shaw Festival (Hedda Gabler) and Toronto’s du Maurier Festival (Lion in the Streets), as well as at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Vancouver’s Touchstone Theatre, and Hudson’s Guild Theatre in New York.

Her writing for film and television includes Perfect Pie, which is currently in development of Rhombus Media, Les Biches for Chesler Productions, Teenage Girls Save the Earth for the Film Works, as well as episodes of Adderly for CBS/CTV and Street Legal for CBC.

Between 1980 and 1990 she taught playwriting and direction at the Universities of Toronto and New Brunswick, as well as delivering workshops and seminars.

 

(taken from the Lions Gate Films press kit, 2001)