Judith Thompson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Judith Thompson
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Sep 20, 1954(1954-09-20)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2020-11-20
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Virgo

Judith Thompson Biography

Judith Thompson is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on September 20, 1954 in Canada. Playwright best known for her 1984 play, White Biting Dog. Also, she composed Lion in the Streets in 1990.

She as well as She and Jose Calderon are Canada-born members of the entertainment industry. are Canadian-born actors in the entertainment industry.

While in a mask class at NTS, Thompson developed the character Theresa, a mildly delayed Aboriginal woman inspired by a young woman she had met while working as an assistant social worker during one summer in Kingston, Ontario. This character was to provide the core of Thompson’s first play The Crackwalker (1980), which focuses on Kingston’s sub-proletariat class. In 1991, CBC reviewer, Jerry Wasserman called the Vancouver Fringe Festival production, The Diamond among the pebbles … Maybe the most powerful play ever written in Canada about two down and out couples in Kingston Ontario living on the edge, the outer edge of respectability, and trying to make some sense of their lives – to find love and a kind of domestic normality under the worst conceivable conditions. It’s a very, very disturbing play and I think a deeply tragic play about the lowest depths one can imagine in a Canadian city. About a Vancouver production with the same cast at the Firehall Arts Centre in 1993, The Vancouver Sun’s Barbara Crook wrote, The Crackwalker is not theatre for the timid. Judith Thompson’s first play is a graphic, harrowing glimpse at life on the edge, at individuals battered by poverty, ignorance and hopelessness. It is also a brilliant piece of stagecraft that makes use of every well-chosen word and powerfully dramatic moment to force audience members to confront their own darker sides. If you’re looking for theatre that takes you to the edge of hell, The Crackwalker fits the bill.

Thompson’s second play, White Biting Dog (1984), was an expressionistic and poetic black comedy about an eccentric and wildly self-destructive family. I Am Yours (1987), while containing similarly expressionistic elements, attaches these to the fears and fantasies of the central characters, to create an even more powerfully compelling theatrical experience.

The father of her daughter, W. R. Thompson was the head of the psychology department in the psychology department at Queen’s University.

Judith Thompson Net Worth

Judith Thompson is one of the richest Playwright from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Judith Thompson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She trained in acting through her school, the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal.

She performed as an actor for the full year prior to deciding to write as her true love.

Judith Clare Thompson, OC F.R.S. (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has twice been awarded the Governor General’s Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, The Epilepsy Ontario Award, The B’nai B’rith Award, the Dora, the Chalmers, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (a global competition for the best play written by a woman in the English Language) and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, both for Palace of the End, which premiered at Canadian Stage, and has been produced all over the world in many languages. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University and, in Nov. 2016, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

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Who is Judith Thompson Dating?

According to our records, Judith Thompson married to James F. Thomson. As of December 1, 2023, Judith Thompson’s is not dating anyone.

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Thompson won the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1985 for her play White Biting Dog, and in 1989 for a collection of her plays, The Other Side of the Dark. She has won a Toronto Arts Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award. She is the recipient of several Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards, including one in 1987 for I Am Yours, and in 1991 for Lion in the Streets. Tornado won an award for Best Radio Drama in 1988. Thompson has received several Dora Mavor Moore Awards from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2007 she was awarded the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts by the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2008 she became the first Canadian to be awarded Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, which recognizes outstanding women playwrights each year.

Facts & Trivia

Judith Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Judith Thompson celebrates birthday on September 20 of every year.

What did Judith Thomson believe?

The philosophical debate about abortion had focused on the question of whether a fetus is a person; Thomson argued that even if it is granted that a fetus is a person, abortion is still morally permissible under some circumstances.

What is Judith Jarvis Thomson known?

Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.

What is Thomson's violinist example?

The fetus relies someone else to stay alive, just as the violinist relies on you in Thomson’s example. Someone who has an abortion kills the fetus , just as you would kill the violinist by unhooking yourself.

Is Judith Jarvis Thomson still alive?

November 20, 2020

What is Thomson's view on abortion?

According to Thomson’s position, any fetus has the potential for being aborted/killed immorally but only those fetuses given a right to the woman’s body have the potential for being aborted/killed unjustly.