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An award-winning performer and 12-season veteran of the hit Canadian series Trailer Park Boys, Thompson trained at the UK’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Canadian Film Centre (Toronto, 2015), and was one of the eight Women In the Director’s Chair - Story & Leadership program (Vancouver 2016/17), selected for The Writers Lab - (NYC 2018 supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman) and one of ten writers selected for the international script showcase Breaking Through the Lens at the Cannes Festival 2019.

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Thompson has played featured and leading roles at the UK’s Royal National Theatre, in London’s West End and British regional theatres; at the Shaw Festival and across Canada at major theatres. Her on-screen work includes working with Jim Henson on Labyrinth; award-winning performances in Michael Melski’s The Child Remains; Splinters by Thom Fitzgerald, CBC's Moonshine and CTV's Sullivan's Crossing.

Also, web series: the groundbreaking Tokens by Winnie Jong; Denis Theriault's I Am Syd Stone, and the new comedy King and Pawn. 

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Thompson's transition to screenwriter/director and more recently to novelist has been exciting and gratifying for someone fascinated by the challenge of finding the absolute truth of characters.

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​Her short films Dawg, Bats and Pearls have been included in festivals across North America and Europe.  Pearls, about a trans teenager leaving their rural NS home to embrace their authentic self, was one of the last BravoFact shorts, and a ‘prequel’ to Thompson's first feature Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor.  Her short film Duck Duck Goose, included 35 actors under 13 and addresses the culture of fear perpetrated by school lockdowns. DDG was selected by Telefilm for their NOT SHORT ON TALENT program at Clermont-Ferrand, won Best Short at the Atlantic Film Festival, and was a finalist in the CBC Short Film FaceOff.

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​Dawn, Her Dad, & The Tractor was the first feature shot in Nova Scotia after the onset of Covid 19, and was released to festivals during the next wave, and then into cinemas in the winter of 2022.  It played sold out festivals across Canada including INSIDE OUT LGBTQ+ (Toronto), FIN (Halifax International FF) St. Johns International Women's FF and was nominated for the Borsos Prize at the Whistler FF, before heading to festivals in Europe, Including The British Film Institute's FLARE Queer film festival in London UK, where it also sold out.​ 

 

Dawn, Her Dad & The Tractor won Nova Scotia's Masterworks Prize in November 2022.

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Recently Thompson has released her first docu-series TRANSLATIONS for Fibe TV1, and soon to appear on other platforms - watch this space. Her second book  WINTER SKY, with Nimbus/Vagrant Publishers is coming in the fall of 2025, she'll be back on stage this June in Toronto, ON.

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Based in Wolfville, NS,  Thompson is married to writer/director/actor Ed Thomason and is parent to singer/songwriter T. Thomason. She is a champion of LGBTQ+2SP issues. 

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She's proud to work with emerging female screenwriters through the WIFT - AT mentoring program. 

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Her company, Rusty Tractor, focuses on marginalised voices - and in particular the stories of rural women.

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