In 2004, playwright Doug Wright was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award, a GLAAD Media Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award, and a Lucille Lortel Award for his play I Am My Own Wife.  

In 2006, he received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his book for the Broadway musical Grey Gardens.    Most recently, he was represented on Broadway by Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Wright won an Obie Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting and the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club for his play Quills.  He went on to write the screenplay adaptation, making his motion picture debut.   The film was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and nominated for three Academy Awards.   His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and received the Paul Selvin Award from the Writer’s Guild of America.    

For director Rob Marshall, Mr. Wright penned the television special Tony Bennett: An American Classic, which received seven Emmy Awards.   

His stage work has been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, London, Stockholm, Bucharest, Krakow, Dublin, Budapest, Brasov, Madrid, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Stockholm, Oslo, Tokyo, Viterbo and Zimbabwe, among other cities.   Titles include:  The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating the Nude, Watbanaland, Buzzsaw Berkeley, and Unwrap Your Candy.

For career achievement, Mr. Wright was recently cited with an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Tolerance Prize from the KulturForum Europa.    He is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East, the Screen Actor’s Guild, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the PEN American Center, which supports dissident writers all across the globe.   

Directing credits include Kiki and Herb: Pardon Our Appearance in Washington DC, Philadelphia and London. Acting credits include the films Little Manhattan and Two Lovers, and the television show Law and Order.

Currently, Doug serves on the boards of the New York Theater Workshop and the Dramatists Guild.   He lives in New York with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement.  

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus