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Starting as a CBS Sunday Night Series, Teach Me How To Cry eventually became Joudry’s first stage play. After Teach Me How To Cry was awarded the distinction of ‘Honours’ at the Canadian Dominion Drama Festival it began to be broadcasted in both London and New York.

Spirituality

Patricia Joudry wrote an estimated forty-five works in an eighteen month period. These works were planned to fund her and Steele’s house renovations. Steele declared to the bankruptcy court judge that his wife was able to produce this extensive amount of literary pieces because of her “spirit guides.” It took Joudry only a week to write a full length stage play because of the voices in her head believed to be the “spirits of Shakespeare, Shaw, and Tolstoy.”

Steele believed that Joudry was a “spiritual medium” who could “[hear] and [see] clairvoyantly.” After paying for the home renovations with the theoretical money from selling her many plays, Joudry hoped to put her spiritual side to work by creating a new world religion.

In 1963, Joudry gave birth to her daughter with Steele. Joudry believed her newborn daughter was the “new Messiah.”

Many Talents

On top of being a self-proclaimed clairvoyant and a successful playwright and radio writer, Joudry held many positions in other industries throughout her career; holding titles including actress, television writer, theatrical producer, photographer, and model.