Doug Wright · Tony & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer & Fmr. President of the Dramatists Guild of America (62 mins)
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Doug Wright is an award winning playwright whose plays include I am My Own Wife, for which he won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize, Posterity, and Quills, for which he won an Obie Award. He has written books for the Tony-nominated musical Grey Gardens, the Drama Desk nomination “Hands on a hardbody”, The Little Mermaid, and War Paint. He adapted and directed August Strindberg’s Creditors for the La Jolla Playhouse in 2009.  Films include the screen adaptation of Quills, which won a Paul Selvin Award and WGA award, and production rewrites for director Rob Marshall, Steven Spielberg and others. He is Fmr. President of The Dramatists Guild and on the Board of The New York Theater Workshop. He has taught or guest lectured at the Yale Drama School, Princeton University, Julliard and NYU.  He lives in New York with his husband, singer-songwriter David Clement. · www.dramatistsguild.com · www.creativeprocess.info
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