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Don Thompson was born on 19 October, 1956 in Long Beach, California, U.S., is an American producer and dramatist. Discover Don Thompson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation producer, filmmaker, playwright
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 19 October, 1956
Birthday 19 October
Birthplace Long Beach, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Don Thompson is an American producer, filmmaker and playwright.

He is most notable for the film Clouds, the Sundance award-winning documentary Tibet in Song, and the plays L.A. Book of the Dead, Tibet Does Not Exist and Democracy: A Work in Progress.

Thompson attended UCLA Film School, and was mentored by Richard Walter, Chair of UCLA’s screenwriting program.

While at UCLA, Thompson developed a full-length screen play that was a finalist in the Samuel Goldwyn screenwriting awards.

1982

Thompson’s first major creative success was the anti-war play L.A. Book of the Dead which was first performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Los Angeles, in 1982 (director Renee Tadlock).

1987

L.A. Book of the Dead was revived in 1987 by the Rough Theater Company, and continued to be performed as a reader’s theater piece throughout the 1990s.

1995

In 1995, his play Tibet Does Not Exist was first performed at the Gene Frankel theater in New York City and later, Off-Broadway (1997) by the Theater for Human Rights.

1998

The play was published in paperback in 1998 with a foreword by Robert Thurman and the Dalai Lama.

1999

In 1999, Thompson produced, directed and wrote his first feature film, Clouds, based on a screenplay he developed while at UCLA.

The film won awards, including Best New Director at the Brooklyn Film Festival, a Feature Film award at the New York Independent Film Festival, and Juror’s Choice for Narrative Feature at the Brooklyn Arts Council Film and Video Festival.

William Arntz was a producer on the project, and also a co-producer of Thompson’s play, Tibet Does Not Exist.

2000

In 2000, Thompson founded, with partner Diana Takata, the production company nextPix.

Notable of the nextPix projects is the Sundance award-winning documentary Tibet in Song, directed by former political prisoner of conscience Ngawang Choephel.

Thompson was a producer on the film.

2002

After 2002, Thompson also became active as an Internet essayist.

2004

Thompson has also developed two plays through the Maryland Ensemble Theater, Democracy: A Work in Progress (2004) and The God of this World (2015).

2005

The play was also performed at Oregon Stage Works in 2005 and revived at Nicu’s Spoon Theater in New York City in 2009.

2006

In collaboration with Michael Neff of WebDelSol Thompson and Neff published two separate anthologies of essays through Del Sol Press, Your Life Is A Movie (2006) and A World Without War (2012).

2015

Since Tibet in Song, Thompson has been affiliated with other notable films as a producer, including Ned Rifle (2015), Railway Children (2016), and Yomeddine (2018).

2016

The God of this World was published by Indie Theater Now in 2016 and included in ITN's Plays and Playwrights 2017 anthology.

2017

Ned Rifle won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, and Railway Children was nominated for the 2017 ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Prize for film at the International Film Festival of India.

2018

Yomeddine won the François Chalais Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival where it screened in competition for the Palme d'Or.