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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 30 languages, Arabic the newest, 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, WHITE PEOPLE CHRISTMAS, and, his newest, SOME PARTS MISSING. His anthology of 20 short plays includes the collections THE PENIS RESPONDS, ANSWERS, and VALENTINES FOR TWO, as well as THE ONE ABOUT THE GUY IN THE BAR, and AMERICAN TERRORIST. His films include ON GOLDEN POND (Katharine Hepburn and Henry and Jane Fonda), SWEET HEARTS DANCE (Susan Sarandon), THE LIES BOYS TELL (Kirk Douglas), 1969 (Robert Downey Jr.), THE WEST SIDE WALTZ (Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli) and the live ON GOLDEN POND (Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), the last three of which Mr. Thompson also directed, as he has his latest films, TIME AND CHARGES and HEAVENLY ANGLE, both produced with his Whitebridge Farm Productions partners Morgan Murphy and Lori Gigliotti Murphy, and both in the final stages of postproduction. In the summer of 2012, Mr. Thompson brought to Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia, NH, his wildly successful production of ON GOLDEN POND, the first time he's directed the play on stage, this time round taking on the role of Charlie the mailman. His production features two new songs by Mr. Thompson and his longtime song-writing partner Joe Deleault: THE FATHER DAUGHTER DANCE, written with and performed by Carly Simon, and the anthemic ON GOLDEN POND, composed with and featuring the world renowned fiddler Natalie MacMaster. Mr. Thompson maintains a home in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, close to where ON GOLDEN POND was filmed, and where he conducts his internationally renowned workshops for writers, actors and directors. This past winter he appeared in and directed his new short plays, collectively called POLITICAL SUICIDE, also at Pitman's Freight Room. Through Mr. Thompson’s partnership with Rock The Vote, POLITICAL SUICIDE has been seen in productions across the country, including readings staged by Mr. Thompson planned for New York and LA, with full productions in the works in both cities. | www.ErnestThompson.us or www.WhitebridgeFarmProductions.com |
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