
Doug Wright
About
Doug Wright's Broadway credits include Good Night Oscar (Chicago Jeff Award), I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize), War Paint starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, Hands on a Hardbody, The Little Mermaid, and Grey Gardens. His new book for the beloved American musical Damn Yankees (written with Will Power) will premiere on Broadway in 2027. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Posterity (Atlantic Theatre Company), Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard Theatre), Quills (New York Theatre Workshop), Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane Theater), Buzzsaw Berkeley (WPA Theater), and an adaptation of Strindberg's Creditors (La Jolla Playhouse). His plays and musicals have been seen in thirty-three countries around the globe. Film credits include Quills starring Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Geoffrey Rush, and Michael Caine (WGA Paul Selvin Award; Golden Globe nomination) and The Burial starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones (NAACP Image Award nomination). Doug is the former president of the Dramatists Guild and a member of SAG-AFTRA, SDC, and the WGA. He serves on the boards of the New York Theater Workshop, Yaddo, and the Hermitage Foundation, and has mentored young screenwriters at Sundance for twenty years. His literary archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale.
At The Orchard Project
- 2026Performance Lab
The Blaster's Handbook
A rock 'n' roll musical that traces the rise of the Weather Underground, an affluent group of young radicals who engage in acts of domestic terrorism in hopes of bringing a swift end to the Vietnam War.
