Wright, Craig

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Wright, Craig

PERSONAL

Education: United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, graduated.

Addresses:

Agent—(film and television) United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; (theatre) Beth Blickers, Abrams Artists Agency, 275 Seventh Ave., 26th Floor, New York, NY 10001.

Career:

Producer, writer, and story editor.

Awards, Honors:

Playwriting apprenticeship, McKnight Foundation; grant, National Endowment for the Arts; Citation Award, American Theatre Critics Association, 2002, for Recent Tragic Events; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding writing for a drama series, 2003, for "Twilight," Six Feet Under; Television Award nomination, outstanding episodic drama, Writers Guild of America, 2005, for "Falling into Place," Six Feet Under; Television Award nomination (with others), outstanding dramatic series, Writers Guild of America, 2006, for Six Feet Under; Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding play, 2006, and Best New Play Award nomination, American Theatre Critics Association, both for The Pavilion; Television Award (with others), outstanding dramatic series, Writers Guild of America, 2006, for Lost.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Story editor, Six Feet Under, HBO, 2003.

Producer, Six Feet Under, HBO, 2005.

Supervising producer, Lost, ABC, 2005-2006.

Co-executive producer, Brothers & Sisters, ABC, 2006-2007.

Creator and executive producer, Dirty Sexy Money, ABC, 2007.

Television Work; Pilots:

Executive producer, Dirty Sexy Money, ABC, 2007.

WRITINGS

Television Series:

Six Feet Under, HBO, multiple episodes, 2003-2005.

Brothers & Sisters, ABC, 2006-2007.

Dirty Sexy Money, ABC, 2007.

Television Episodes:

"Orientation," Lost, ABC, 2005.

"What Kate Did," Lost, ABC, 2005.

Television Pilots:

Dirty Sexy Money, ABC, 2007.

Stage Plays:

The Pavilion, 2000.

Recent Tragic Events, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Grace, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, DC, 2005.

Other plays include Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, The Big Numbers, John Dory, Main Street, Melissa Arctic, Molly's Delicious, and Orange Flower Water.

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