Doug Wright


Playwright, Screenwriter

Biography

Life Events

1987

Short play "The Stonewater Rapture" produced

1989

Co-conceived the campy musical "Buzzsaw Berkeley" with director Christopher Ashley

1994

"Watbanaland" staged at the WPA Theater in NYC

1995

"Quills", a play about the Marquis de Sade, premiered at The New York Theater Workshop

2000

Adapted "Quills" into well-reviewed feature film starring Geoffrey Rush

2001

Wrote and directed the Off-Broadway production "Unwrap Your Candy", consisting of four short plays

2003

Penned the Tony award winning play, "I Am My Own Wife" a one-person play, which starred Jefferson Mays, as the German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

2006

Wrote the book for "Grey Gardens," a musical based on the Maysles brothers¿ 1975 film documentary of the same title about Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis¿s aunt and cousin; earned a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical

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