Craig Wright (playwright)
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Craig Wright (born 1965 in Puerto Rico) is an American playwright and television writer.
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[edit] Biography
Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, Wright attended St. John's University in Minneapolis, Minnesota and went on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.[1] He lives in Los Angeles.
[edit] Playwright
Wright is best known for his plays: The Pavilion, Recent Tragic Events, Orange Flower Water, Melissa Arctic, Main Street, Molly's Delicious and numerous others. Grace premiered in fall 2005 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C..
Wright has received awards and award nominations for his work, including the Jerome Fellowship at age 21 and apprenticeships in playwriting from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His play The Pavilion, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, the American Theatre Critics' Association Best New Play Award and a 2005-2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and has had over 40 productions since its premiere in 2000; in the 2008 summer season it will be produced at the Westport Country Playhouse.[2] It is one of four set in Pine City, Minnesota. His Recent Tragic Events won an ATCA Best New Play Citation Award in 2002.
[edit] Television career
His television writing debut was on the 2001 HBO series, Six Feet Under, joining the writing staff during the 2003 season. During that season, he wrote "Twilight," for which he was nominated for an Emmy and "Timing and Space"; he penned 3 more episodes of Six Feet Under and co-wrote one with co-executive producer, Jill Soloway. In 2004, he was appointed Executive Story Editor with Nancy Oliver. In 2005, he became a producer for the fifth and final season.
In 2005, he signed a 2 year deal with Touchstone Television and served as a supervising producer during the 2005-2006 season of ABCs Lost until midseason after co-writing two episodes. Wright then became a Co-Executive Producer and writer on ABC's Brothers & Sisters.
During the 2007 season, Wright worked as the creator, head writer, and executive producer of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, which stars Six Feet Under alumnus, Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, Samaire Armstrong and William Baldwin. The pilot was produced by Greg Berlanti and directed by Peter Horton. The series premiered in the fall of 2007.
[edit] Writing credits
[edit] Six Feet Under episodes
- Timing and Space, (2003)
- Twilight, (2003)
- Falling into Place, (2004)
- The Black Forest, with Jill Soloway, (2004)
- Time Flies, (2005)
- Static (2005)
[edit] Lost episodes
- Orientation (2005) with Javier Grillo-Marxuach
- What Kate Did (2005) with Steven Maeda
[edit] Brothers & Sisters episodes
- "Affairs of State", with Jon Robin Baitz (2006)
- "Family Portrait", with Jon Robin Baitz & Emily Whitesell (2006)
- "Mistakes Were Made, Part One", with Jon Robin Baitz (2006)
[edit] Music
A musician, Wright was co-leader of an alternative rock band The Tropicals', whose first album, Live At The Jungle, was released in 1996 . As a member of the band Kangaroo he has released two albums, Phantom and Skyscraper Spaceship.
