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Douglas Wright (born December 20, 1962)[1] is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004 for his play I Am My Own Wife.

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Doug Wright
Born	(1962-12-20) December 20, 1962 (age 59) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright, librettist, screenwriter
Education	Yale University (BA) New York University (MFA)
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2004)
Spouse	David Clement

Early years

Wright was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended and graduated from Highland Park High School, in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, where he excelled in the theater department and was President of the Thespian Club in 1981. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from New York University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and serves on the boards of Yaddo and New York Theatre Workshop. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University.

Career

Wright's play Quills premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995 and subsequently had its debut Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. The play recounts the imagined final days in the life of the Marquis de Sade. Quills garnered the 1995 Joseph Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1996 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting.[2] In 2000, Wright wrote the screenplay for the film version of Quills which starred Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, and Michael Caine.

Wright's I Am My Own Wife was produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 2003. It transferred to Broadway where it won the Tony Award for Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The subject of this one-person play, which starred Jefferson Mays, is the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. With his play I Am My Own Wife, Wright tied in with the film I Am My Own Woman by avant-garde director Rosa von Praunheim (1992).[3]

In 2006, Wright wrote the book for Grey Gardens, starring Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. The musical is based on the Maysles brothers' 1975 film documentary of the same title about Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie"), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin. He adapted the Disney film The Little Mermaid for the Broadway musical, which opened in 2007.

In 2009, he was commissioned by the La Jolla Playhouse to adapt and direct Creditors by August Strindberg. In another La Jolla commission, he wrote the book for the musical Hands on a Hardbody, with the score by Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio. The musical had a brief run on Broadway in March and April 2013 after premiering at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2012.

He wrote the book for a musical, War Paint, about Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. The music is by Scott Frankel and the lyrics by Michael Korie. War Paint premiered at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, from June 28 to August 14, 2016, with stars Patti LuPone as Helena Rubinstein and Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden.[4] It ran on Broadway in 2017. The musical received four Tony Award nominations for Ebersole, LuPone, for its set design and costume design.

For television, Wright worked on four pilots for producer Norman Lear and teleplays for Hallmark Entertainment and HBO. In film, Wright’s credits include screenplays for Fine Line Features, Fox Searchlight, and DreamWorks SKG.

As an ardent supporter for writers' rights in the theatre industry, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and currently serves as the elected president of the non-profit organization. He also serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop. He is a recipient of the William L. Bradley Fellowship at Yale University, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, an HBO Fellowship in playwriting and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2010 he was named a United States Artists Fellow.[5]

Personal life

Wright lives in New York City with his husband, singer/songwriter David Clement.[6]

Work

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1983	The Stonewater Rapture	Playwright	Yale Dramatic Association, CT	[7]
1989	Ubu	Playwright	Lincoln Center Theater, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, NY
1989	Buzzsaw Berkeley	Book by	WPA Theatre, Off-Broadway	[8]
1989	Dinosaurs	Playwright	Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven	[9]
1989	Interrogating the Nude	Playwright	Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven
1995	Quills	Playwright	New York Theatre Workshop, NY	[7]
1995	Watbanaland	Playwright	WPA Theatre, Off-Broadway
2000	Not Suitable For Children	Playwright	Second Stage Theater, Off-Broadway
2001	Unwrap Your Candy	Playwright	Vineyard Theatre, Off-Broadway
2003	I Am My Own Wife	Playwright	Lyceum Theatre, Broadway
2005	Wildwood Park	Playwright	Frederick Cultural Arts Center, MD
2006-07	Grey Gardens	Book by	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway
2007	The Little Mermaid	Book by	Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, Broadway
2011	Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays	addt. Playwright	Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway	[10]
2012	Hands on a Hardbody	Book by	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway	[7]
2015	Posterity	Playwright	Atlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway
2017	War Paint	Book by	Nederlander Theatre, Broadway
2021	Good Night, Oscar	Playwright	Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL	[11]

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Quills	Screenwriter	Film	[12]
2004	Charlie Rose	Himself	Episode: July 30, 2004
2006	Tony Bennett: An American Classic	Writer	Documentary
2015	She's The Best Thing in It	Himself	Documentary	[13]
TBA	The Burial	Screenwriter	Film	[14]

Awards and honors

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Obie Award	Best Playwriting	Quills	Won	[15]
2001	Golden Globes Awards	Best Screenplay		Nominated	[16]
2001	Writers Guild Award	Paul Selvin Award		Won
2001	Los Angeles Film Critics Association	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2001	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2001	Satellite Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay		Won
2001	Online Film Critics Society	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2004	Lucille Lortel Awards	Outstanding Solo Show	I Am My Own Wife	Won	[15]
2004	Drama Desk Award	Best Play		Won
2004	Tony Award	Tony Award for Best Play		Won
2004	Pulitzer Prize	Pulitzer Prize for Drama		Won
2005	Lambda Literary Award			Won
2006	Toleranzpreis Europa			Won	[17]
2006	Washington D.C. Film Critics Association	Best Adapted Screenplay	Memoirs of a Geisha	Nominated
2006	Lucille Lortel Awards	Outstanding Musical	Grey Gardens	Nominated	[15]
2006	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Musical		Nominated
2006	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Book of a Musical		Nominated
2007	Tony Award	Best Book of a Musical		Nominated
2013	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Play	Hands on a Hardbody	Nominated
2013	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Book of a Musical		Nominated

References

External links

• Doug Wright at IMDb 
• Doug Wright at the Internet Broadway Database
• Doug Wright at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Doug Wright at Playbill Vault
• Production: Grey Gardens Working in the Theatre video by the American Theatre Wing, November 2006

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