Douglas Wright was born on December 20,1962 and is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter.
22 Facts About Doug Wright
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Doug Wright later adapted it into the 2000 film of the same name, earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.
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Doug Wright went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for his debut Broadway play, I Am My Own Wife.
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Doug Wright earned a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical nomination for Grey Gardens, based on the 1975 documentary of the same name.
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Doug Wright continued writing for musical theatre, adapting the books for the Broadway musicals The Little Mermaid, Hands on a Hard Body, and War Paint.
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Doug Wright returned to plays, authoring Posterity for off-Broadway, and Good Night, Oscar for Broadway.
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Doug Wright wrote the screenplay for the Amazon Prime legal drama film The Burial.
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Doug Wright 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.
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Doug Wright earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1985.
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Doug Wright earned his Master of Fine Arts from New York University.
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In 2000, Doug 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.
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Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife was produced Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 2003.
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Doug Wright returned to Broadway in 2006, writing the book for Grey Gardens, starring Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson.
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Doug Wright then adapted the Disney film The Little Mermaid for the Broadway musical, which opened in 2007.
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Doug Wright serves on the board of New York Theatre Workshop.
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Doug Wright serves on the boards of Yaddo and New York Theatre Workshop.
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Doug Wright 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.
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Doug Wright wrote the book for the musical, War Paint, about Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.
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For television, Doug Wright worked on four pilots for producer Norman Lear and teleplays for Hallmark Entertainment and HBO.
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In film, Doug Wright's credits include screenplays for Fine Line Features, Fox Searchlight, and DreamWorks SKG.
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Doug Wright wrote screenplay for the upcoming courtroom drama The Burial directed by Maggie Betts starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Also in 2023, Doug Wright wrote the play Good Night, Oscar a drama centered around pianist and actor Oscar Levant's appearance on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.