Craig Wright (playwright)

Craig Wright
Born	1965 (age 51–52) Puerto Rico
Occupation	Playwright, television writer, television producer, screenwriter

Craig Wright (born 1965 in Puerto Rico) is an American playwright, television producer and writer. He is known for writing for shows including Six Feet Under and Lost and creating the television series Dirty Sexy Money. He also was the screenwriter for the movie Mr. Peabody & Sherman, released March 7, 2014.

Born in 1965 in Puerto Rico, Wright attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and went on to earn a Masters of Divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. He lives in Los Angeles and New York City.

Wright is known primarily for his plays: Grace, Mistakes Were Made, The Pavilion, Recent Tragic Events, Main Street and numerous others. Wright has received awards and award nominations for his work, including the Jerome Fellowship at age 21 and apprenticeships in playwriting from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wright was the recipient of the 2009 Horton Foote Excellence in American Playwriting Award from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is a member of the ensemble of the Chicago-based A Red Orchid Theatre.

Wright set four plays in Pine City, Minnesota.

Molly's Delicious, a romantic comedy, first played at the Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia, in September 1997, directed by Aaron Posner. The play takes place in Pine City, Minnesota, in 1965.

The next play set in Pine City is Orange Flower Water, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "a brutally honest drama about marriage and infidelity." The play premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, from October through December 2003. and ran Off-Broadway at the Edge Theater Company in April 2005. It was published in August 2004. In 2005 it was performed at the Off-Off-Broadway Theater for the New City with a cast of Arija Bareikis, Paul Sparks, Jason Butler Harner and Pamela J. Gray, directed by Carolyn Cantor, and a 2013 production in Los Angeles was critically reviewed by Backstage.

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