Shelley Thompson

Actor/Writer/Director: Shelley Thompson Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Shelley Thompson is based in Wolfville, in Mi'kma'ki. (Nova Scotia, Canada) Trained at RADA (London, UK); Canadian Film Centre (Toronto,ON) Women In The Directors Chair,(Vancouver, BC) the Writers Lab (NYC,NY) and most recently the Whistler Film Festival's Producer's Lab. Her award-winning short films include DUCK DUCK GOOSE, about the impact of school lockdowns on children, which won Best Atlantic Short at Halifax Int FF, was selected by Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent for Clermont-Ferrand, and was a finalist in CBC's Short Film Faceoff. Her first feature, DAWN, HER DAD & THE TRACTOR was released in 2021, selling out at InsideOut, FIN, and the UK's BFI Flare Festival. It played at festivals and in cinemas across Canada, settling on CRAVE Canada, while continuing festival play outside Canada. In November 2022 DAWN won the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, Nova Scotia's largest arts award, and won or was nominated for numerous festival awards including a nomination for Whistler's Borsos prize. Recent screen credits include CBC TV's Moonshine, CTV's Sullivan's Crossing. Thompson is an ACTRA/Gemini winner for her roles in Trailer Park Boys and feature films SPLINTERS (Thom Fitzgerald) and The Child Remains (Michael Melski). Presently: Working on features BOUQUET, (a finalist in the 2022 TIFF Screenwriters award); EVERYBODY HATES RANDY an ensemble comedy; her first documentary series RESCUED BY LOVE with Producer John Galway. Thompson will publish her first novel ROAR (Nimbus/Vantage press), in the fall of 2023. She is proud parent to singer/songwriter T. Thomason, and married to Writer/Director/Actor Ed Thomason