Shelley Thompson

About Shelley Thompson

Who is it?: Actress, Writer, Producer

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Shelley Thompson was born, is Actress, Writer, Producer. An award winning performer, and 11 season veteran (Barb Lahey) of the hit Canadian series Trailer Park Boys, Thompson trained at the UK's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Canadian Film Centre (2015), and was one of the eight Women In the Director's Chair - Story & Leadership program (2016/17). Her work as an actor included: The National Theatre (UK), Adelphi and Whitehall Theatres, (West End), numerous UK regional theatres, the Shaw Festival, the Neptune, the Globe and more in Canada. Television/film includes eleven season of Trailer Park Boys (Barb Lahey) and six seasons of ITV- UK's Mike and Angelo (Rita) and the cult film Labyrinth with David Bowie. She's the recipient of Geminis and ACTRAs for film/TV performances, and Dora and Merritt nominations and awards for her stage work. Her shift into screenwriting and directing has seen her short films Dawg and Bats included in festivals across North America; she was selected for the Atlantic Film Festival script development program (2016) for her village comedy The Benefit; in April 2017 she received (perhaps one of the last!) BravoFact grants for her short films Pearls, a 'prequel' to her feature Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor, supported by the Canada Council and recently recommended by the WIDC and selected for Telefilm's Micro-budget program. Playwright-in-residence for Eastern Front Theatre, Halifax, NS, (2016/17) she's developing A Bloody Jubilee, an all-female project for Northern Broadsides Theatre in the UK about the raids on Dieppe in WW2. Based in Halifax/Dartmouth, Thompson is parent to singer/songwriter T. Thomason, and a champion of LGBTQ issues.
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Biography/Timeline

2010

Her poetry has been a finalist in the Atlantic Writing Competition, and has appeared in literary journals Toward the Light and Papirmasse, and on the CBC website. Short stories have been included in anthologies and broadcast in collaboration with The Blue Engine String Quartet on CBC Radio - Christmas 2010 and 2011.

2012

Since 2012, she's been shifting focus to stage and screenwriting and directing. Her plays include plays A Kind of Faith (produced 2004) Leaving Wonderland (Premiered Halifax, 2015 ), children’s plays Bluenose Billy (2006, co-written with Sheldon Currie and Griffen Prize-winning poet Anne Simpson), Belinda the Bicycle Witch (2008), Lost and Found (2009), ...And How Are We Today (co-written with poet Anne Simpson).

2013

Awards include: ACTRA Maritimes winner for (short) Two Penny Road-Kill 2013, Best Supporting Actress, LA’s Love Unlimited Festival, 2011 for (short) WAKE, and Gemini, 2008, Best Ensemble, as Barb Lahey, for Trailer Park Boys. Merritt Award- Best Actress in a Leading Role- for Glorious. Several Stage nominations for: Humble Boy – Flora, Criminal Genius – Shirley, Tamara (Dora) – Aelis.

2015

Presently shifting to writing/directing for film, she has just finished her first narrative short, DAWG (Festivals include the Atlantic Film Festival, The San Diego International Kids Film Festival, Nickle Film festival NFL and more....) Presently: working on features (Dawn Her Dad and the Tractor, Billy, Dash and Dawg, and The Benefit. In 2015 she was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre, Toronto, as a Screenwriter, and in 2016 was invited to be one of eight Women In the Directors Chair (2017).