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Ernest Thompson has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Writers Guild Award and a Broadway Drama Guild Award for Best Play. His work has been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy, and a British Academy Award. His more than 35 plays have been seen in theatres around the world, the most enduring, ON GOLDEN POND, has been translated into 28 languages and played in more than 40 countries on six continents. Other plays include THE WEST SIDE WALTZ (starring Katharine Hepburn), A SENSE OF HUMOR (Jack Lemmon), AX OF LOVE, AMAZONS IN AUGUST, and, his newest, SOME PARTS MISSING. His book of 25 short plays includes the collections THE PENIS RESPONDS, ANSWERS, VALENTINES FOR TWO and the recently completed POLITICAL SUICIDE. His films include ON GOLDEN POND, 1969 (starring Robert Downey Jr.), SWEET HEARTS DANCE (Susan Sarandon), THE LIES BOYS TELL (Kirk Douglas) and THE WEST SIDE WALTZ (Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli). His latest film, TIME AND CHARGES, produced with his Whitebridge Farm Productions partners Morgan Murphy and Lori Gigliotti Murphy, is in the final stages of postproduction and his next, HEAVENLY ANGLE, has recently wrapped principal photography in New Hampshire, where Mr. Thompson maintains a home and conducts his internationally renowned workshops for writers, actors and directors. |
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