Don Thompson

Don Thompson is a minor character on A New Direction. He works at a local business firm in Long Island, New York. He attends McKinley High School as a teenager and later attended the University of Northwestern Ohio for college. He is the father of Zandra Thompson and ex-husband of Maya Thompson. He has unnamed girlfriend.

Irrespective of his physical absence in both Zandra and Maya's lives, Don regularly checks in with them via FaceTime a few days a week. All throughout Zandra's childhood, he had resorted to expressing his feelings in an aggressive manner. She considers this the reason they've never been able to grow close, along with his not-so-subtle homophobia. Though being on the same page is rare for the family of three, Don deeply loves them.