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Doug Wright was born on 20 December, 1962 in Dallas, Texas, U.S., is an American playwright and screenwriter (born 1962). Discover Doug Wright's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Playwright, librettist, screenwriter |
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61 years old |
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Sagittarius |
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20 December 1962 |
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20 December |
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Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
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He is a member of famous Playwright with the age 61 years old group.
Doug Wright Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Doug Wright's Wife?
His wife is David Clement
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David Clement |
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Doug Wright Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Doug Wright worth at the age of 61 years old? Doug Wright’s income source is mostly from being a successful Playwright. He is from . We have estimated Doug Wright's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Douglas Wright (born December 20, 1962) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.
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.
For his work he received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination.
He attended and graduated from Highland Park High School, 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.
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).
Wright first earned acclaim earning the Obie Award for Best Playwright for his darkly satirical play Quills (1995) about the final days of the French sadist and author Marquis de Sade.
Wright's play Quills premiered at the Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop followed by a run at Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995.
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.
He later adapted it into the 2000 film of the same name earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.
In 2000, Wright wrote the screenplay for the film version of Quills which was directed by Philip Kaufman and starred Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, and Michael Caine.
The production earned positive reviews with Variety film critic Todd McCarthy writing, "Kaufman‘s intelligently boisterous screen version of Doug Wright‘s successful play...maintains a sharp focus on the notorious writer’s compulsive creativity" adding, "Wright’s script is at its best when centered on the Marquis".
For his work Wright received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay as well as the Writers Guild of America's Paul Selvin Award.
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.
He went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in Broadway debut play I Am My Own Wife (2004).
Wright earned a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination for Grey Gardens (2006) based off the 1975 documentary of the same name.
He continued writing for musical theatre, adapting the books for the Broadway musicals The Little Mermaid (2007), Hands on a Hard Body (2012), and War Paint (2017).
He then 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.
In 2010 he was named a United States Artists Fellow.
He wrote the book for the musical, War Paint, about Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.
The musical had a brief run on Broadway in March and April 2013 after premiering at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2012.
As an ardent supporter for writers' rights in the theatre industry, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and was formerly the elected president of the non-profit organization, succeeded in 2021 by Amanda Green (the first woman to hold the role in the Guild's history).
Wright also serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop.
He 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.
He returned to plays, authoring Posterity (2015), and Good Night, Oscar (2023) the later a Tony Award-winning play about the pianist and humorist Oscar Levant.
He wrote the screenplay for the film The Burial (2023).
Wright was born in Dallas, Texas.
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.
It ran on Broadway in 2017.
The musical received four Tony Award nominations for Ebersole, LuPone, set design, and costume design.
For television, Wright worked on four pilots for producer Norman Lear and teleplays for Hallmark Entertainment and HBO.
