Introduction
Patricia Joudry (October 18, 1921 – October 28, 2000) was a Canadian playwright and author.
Biography
She was born in Spirit River, Alberta, 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 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.