Hope Thompson

{{Short description|Canadian playwright and screenwriter}}

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Hope Thompson is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.

Education

Thompson graduated from Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre.{{Cite web |title=Hope Thompson |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/hope-thompson/ |access-date=12 October 2022 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}}

Career

Thompson's first play, Green, premiered in 2004 at Buddies in Bad Times' Rhubarb! Festival. Including Green, four of Thompson's works would premiere at Rhubarb! Festivals. Her play, Trapped! premiered at the 2014 Rhubarb! Festival under the direction of Morgan Norwich.

Works

= Plays =

  • Green (2004){{Cite journal|last=Gilbert|first=Sky|author-link=Sky Gilbert|date=2012|title=A Sadly Overlooked Lesbian Gem: Hope Thompson's Green|journal=Canadian Theatre Review|volume=149 |issue=149|pages=27–30|doi=10.3138/ctr.149.27|s2cid=144939830 |issn=0315-0836}}
  • Hospital Green
  • Tyrolia (2008){{Cite news|date=2008-06-06|title=Tyrolia|work=Toronto Star|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/439466947|access-date=2021-06-15|id={{ProQuest|439466947}} }}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2008-07-04|title=Tyrolia - Review|url=https://nowtoronto.com/news/tyrolia-review|access-date=2021-06-15|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-US}}
  • She Walks the Line
  • Stiff
  • Trapped! (2014){{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Kaplan (theatre critic) |date=2014-02-13 |title=More Rhubarb Previews |url=https://nowtoronto.com/more-rhubarb-previews |access-date=2021-06-15 |website=NOW Magazine |language=en-US }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • The Love Crimes of Frances Lark (2015){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2015-06-11|title=The Love Crimes Of Frances Lark + Wand Portal|url=https://nowtoronto.com/events/the-love-crimes-of-frances-lark-and-wand-portal|access-date=2021-06-15|website=NOW Magazine|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Dead Money

Filmography

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!Work

!Role

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1995

|Crossing the Line

|writer

|short film

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1997

|It Happened in the Stacks

|writer

|short film

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1999

|Switch

|writer, director

|short film

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2010

|Trailing Arbutus

|writer

|short film

|

= Television =

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!Year

!Work

!Role

!Ref.

2018-19

|Baroness von Sketch Show

|story editor

|

Personal life

Thompson studied at Mount Allison University (BFA) and at the University of British Columbia (MFA).

References

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