# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomson-highway
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:14:03.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomson-highway"
name: "Tomson Highway"
slug: "tomson-highway"
description: "Tomson Highway is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, children's author and musician. He is best known for his plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award."
tagline: "Canadian playwright and novelist (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TomsonHighway.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0.04188481675392672
  historical:           5.501190666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383652/"
    handle:    "nm0383652"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tomsonhighway.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomson_Highway"
    title: "Tomson Highway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%89"
    title: "تومسون هيجواى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomson_Highway"
    title: "Tomson Highway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomson_Highway"
    title: "Tomson Highway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%86%B0%EC%8A%A8_%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B4%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "톰슨 하이웨이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomson_Highway"
    title: "Tomson Highway"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3531436"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump