Craig Wright (playwright)
Craig Wright | |
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Born | television writer, television producer, screenwriter | April 25, 1965
Years active | 2003–present |
Craig Wright (born April 25, 1965, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a playwright, television producer and writer. He is known for writing for shows including Six Feet Under and Lost and creating the television series Dirty Sexy Money and Greenleaf. He also was the screenwriter for the movie Mr. Peabody & Sherman, released March 7, 2014.
Biography
Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, Wright attended
Playwright
Wright is known primarily for his plays: Grace, Mistakes Were Made, The Pavilion, Recent Tragic Events, Main Street and numerous others. 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. Wright was the recipient of the 2009 Horton Foote Excellence in American Playwriting Award from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.[3] He is a member of the ensemble of the Chicago-based A Red Orchid Theatre.
Pine City plays
Wright set four plays in Pine City, Minnesota.
Molly's Delicious, a romantic comedy, first played at the
The next play set in Pine City is Orange Flower Water, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "a brutally honest drama about marriage and infidelity."[5] The play premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, from October through December 2003.[6] and ran Off-Broadway at the Edge Theater Company in April 2005.[7]
It was published in August 2004.
The Pavilion premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in September 2005.[11] The Pavilion was nominated for 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 was produced at the Westport Country Playhouse.[12] It was also produced for Boise Contemporary Theater's 2009/10 Season.[13]
Melissa Arctic is the last play of his Pine City works, and ran at the
Other plays
Recent Tragic Events premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. in September 2002.[15] The play was then produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in September 2003.[16] The play won an ATCA Best New Play Citation Award in 2002.
Grace premiered in October 2004 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.
His play The Unseen was performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in March 2009. Blind premiered in February 2010 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York.[19] The Gray Sisters premiered in April 2010 at Third Rail Rep in Portland, Oregon.
Television career
His television writing debut was on the 2001
In 2005, he signed a 2-year deal with
Wright became a co-executive producer and writer on ABC's Brothers & Sisters in 2006.
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.
In 2015, Wright created drama series
Writing credits
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)
Lost episodes
- "Orientation" (2005) with Javier Grillo-Marxuach
- "What Kate Did" (2005) with Steven Maeda
Brothers & Sisters episodes
- "Affairs of State", with Jon Robin Baitz (2006)
- "Family Portrait", with Jon Robin Baitz and Emily Whitesell (2006)
- "Mistakes Were Made, Part One", with Jon Robin Baitz (2006)
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 three albums, Phantom, Skyscraper Spaceship and Songs (French).[citation needed]
References
- ^ Moorhead State University (1985). Phone Directory1985-1986. Moorhead State University.
- ^ InsiderInsights
- ^ "Craig Wright", baylor.edu, accessed June 21, 2012 Archived April 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-87129-884-3.
- ^ Wright, Craig. Orange Flower Water. Dramatists Play Service, ISBN/Code: 978-0-8222-1990-3, accessed July 7, 2012 Archived October 28, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Orange Flower Water Listing. Archived May 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Steppenwolf.org, accessed July 7, 2012
- ^ Bacalzo, Dan. "Review. Orange Flower Water", Theatermania.com, April 8, 2005
- ^ "Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright | 9780822219903 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble". Barnesandnoble.com. August 28, 2004. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
- ^ Stevens, Andrea (April 11, 2005). "When a Couples' Friendship Takes a Turn to Adultery". The New York Times. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ Mann, Iris (April 1, 2013). "'Orange Flower Water' Is Inadequately Realized". Backstage.com. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
- ^ Sommer, Elyse. "A CurtainUp Review. The Pavilion". Curtainup.com, September 21, 2005 Archived May 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Summer season 2008", norwalkplus.com Archived May 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Small Casts Big Ideas", Boiseweekly.com Archived October 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ See, Rich."A CurtainUp Review. Melissa Arctic". Curtainup.com, February 6, 2004 Archived March 25, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Whiskeyman, Dolores. "A CurtainUp DC Review. Recent Tragic Events", Curtainup.com, September 3, 2002 Archived May 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brantley, Ben."Theater Review; A First Date Blindsided By a Cosmic Event", The New York Times, September 29, 2003
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Says Grace, a World Premiere Tragicomedy by Craig Wright, Oct. 25 – Dec. 19".[permanent dead link] Playbilledu.com, October 25, 2004
- ^ Brantley, Ben. "Theater Review. Grace, With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater" The New York Times, October 4, 2012
- ^ Sommer, Elyse."A CurtainUp Review. Blind", curtainup.com, February 21, 2010 Archived August 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved October 17, 2007.
- ^ Denise Petski (July 30, 2015). "OWN Sets Megachurch Drama Series From Craig Wright & Lionsgate". Deadline. Retrieved August 26, 2015.