Patricia Joudry was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 playwright and author.

She was born in Spirit River, Alberta

Spirit River, Alberta

Spirit River is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located north of Grande Prairie at the junction of Highway 49 and Highway 731.The community is largely agricultural, being located in the fertile Peace Country. Together with neighboring Rycroft, it is a service centre for the oil and gas...

, the daughter of Clifford and Beth Joudry. While in her twenties, she began a career in radio broadcast, including co-writing the radio drama, The Aldrich Family

The Aldrich Family

The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy , was also presented in films, television and comic books. In the radio series' well-remembered weekly opening exchange, awkward teen Henry's mother called, "Hen-reeeeeeeeeeeee! Hen-ree Al-drich!", and he responded with a breaking...

from 1945–49. During her career, she wrote more than 300 plays, 250 of which were for radio broadcast. Her play Teach Me How to Cry was the basis of the 1958 film, The Restless Years. She became the first English-Canadian professional playwright to make a living from her writing in the 20th century.

Joudry lived in England and the United States from the 1940s until 1973, when she returned to Canada. Along with her daughter Rafael, in 1984 she began introducing the use of sound therapy. She has been married and divorced twice. She died in Powell River, British Columbia

Powell River, British Columbia

Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Malaspina Strait, that part of the larger Georgia Strait between Texada Island and the Mainland...

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