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SOUTHERN REP NEW PLAY BACCHANAL
Back by Popular Demand
January 14 – 31, 2010
Featuring Gulf Coast South writers
DOUG WRIGHT SPEAKS
Jan 19th at 7:30pm
**Free and open to the public**
A lecture by the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of I AM MY OWN WIFE and GREY GARDENS.
In 2006, Doug Wright received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his book for the Broadway musical GREY GARDENS. In 2004, he 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 ...Read More
SOUTHERN REP NEW PLAY BACCHANAL
Back by Popular Demand
January 14 – 31, 2010
Featuring Gulf Coast South writers
DOUG WRIGHT SPEAKS
Jan 19th at 7:30pm
**Free and open to the public**
A lecture by the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of I AM MY OWN WIFE and GREY GARDENS.
In 2006, Doug Wright received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his book for the Broadway musical GREY GARDENS. In 2004, he 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. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wright won an Obie Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting and the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play for QUILLS. He went on to write the screenplay adaptation; 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, Doug penned the television special TONY BENNETT: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, which received seven Emmy Awards. For career achievement, Mr. Wright was 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 Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, the Screen Actor’s Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. 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. Most recently, Doug wrote the Broadway libretto for Walt Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID. He lives in New York with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement.
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