Craig Wright is an American playwright and television writer.
Wright is best known for his plays: The Pavilion, Recent Tragic Events, Orange Flower Water, Melissa Arctic, Main Street, Molly's Delicious and numerous others. Grace premiered in fall 2005 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.. Wright has received awards over the years for his work, including apprenticeships in playwriting from the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His play The Pavilion, was nominated for the American Theatre Critics' Association Best New Play Award and has had over 40 productions since its premiere in 2000. It is one of four set in Pine City, Minnesota. Recent Tragic Events (also written by Wright) won an ATCA Best New Play Citation Award in 2002.
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His first television writing debut was on the 2001 HBO series, _Six Feet Under when he joined the writing staff during the 2003 season. During that season, he wrote "Twilight," for which he was nominated for an Emmy. In 2004, he was appointed Executive Story Editor with co-worker, Nancy Oliver. In 2005, he was appointed producer for the fifth and final season.
He has penned 5 episodes of Six Feet Under and 1 co-written by himself and co-executive producer, Jill Soloway.
In 2005, he signed a 2 year deal with Touchstone Television and served as a supervising producer during the 2005-2006 season of ABCs Lost until midseason after co-writing two episodes. Wright then became a Co-Executive Producer and writer on ABC's Brothers & Sisters.
Wright is currently working as the creator, head writer, and executive producer of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, which stars Six Feet Under alumnus, Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, Samaire Armstrong and William Baldwin. The pilot was produced by Greg Berlanti and directed by Peter Horton. The series premiered in the fall of 2007.
Craig McIntyre Wright (born 28 April 1974 in Paisley) is a Scottish cricket player. He is a big hitting right handed middle order batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler.
Wright had represented Scotland at both Under 16 and Under 19 level before making his senior debut in a match against Ireland on August 9 1997. He has gone on to play more than 170 times for Scotland, including the 2007 Cricket World Cup and overtook Greig Williamson in 2006 as the highest capped Scottish player. Career highlights include a hat trick against Denmark in 2004 and a man of the match performance to help Scotland upset Worcestershire in a 1998 NatWest series match.
In 2002 he was appointed captain of the national side, a role he kept until the end of the 2007 World Cup. As captain he lifted the 2004 Intercontinental Cup and the 2005 ICC Trophy for Scotland. In total he captained Scotland a record 107 times.
After being omitted from the Scottish side for the 1999 World Cup he had to wait until 2006 to make his One Day International debut. He was the hero in just his second ODI game, against the Netherlands, hitting Tim de Leede for six off the penultimate delivery to win the game. This effort was repeated against Ireland in 2007 with Wright striking a six to level scores with two balls to go before hitting the winning single off the final delivery.
He plays an important role in Scottish cricket off the field, juggling his playing career with the job of Cricket Scotland's Performance Development Manager, having previously served as their Development Officer and Marketing Manager.
Has written numerous plays, including, Orange Flower Water, Recent Tragic Events, Molly's Delicious, The Big Numbers, John Dory, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty and The Pavilion (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the American Theatre Critics' Association Best New Play Award). He has received fellowships in playwriting from both the McKnight Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He joined the writing staff of "Six Feet Under" (2001) on the show's 3rd season (2003), penning 2 episodes.
