Patricia Joudry is the author of Teach Me How to Cry, one of the most commercially successful Canadian plays ever written. The play was first produced at the Theatre de Lys, New York, 5 April 1955, and under the title Noon Has No Shadows became the first Canadian play mounted by an all-Canadian cast in London, opening at the Arts Theatre Club, 16 July 1958. A film version of the play, The Restless Years, was released by Universal Studios in 1959. Adaptations of the work have been broadcast and televised.

Born 18 October 1921 in Spirit River, Alberta, in 1925 Joudry moved to Montreal with her parents, Clifford G. Joudry, a magazine editor, and Beth Gilbart Joudry, a potter. In Montreal she appeared as a child performer with Dorothy Davis's Children's Theatre, and as a teenager she performed in radio for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After moving to Toronto in 1940, she began to write scripts for...