Career
Wright"s professional acting career started with George C. Wolfe" General’ s Office-Broadway production of Paradise at Playwrights Horizons. He then went on to originate leading roles on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim"s Into The Woods and the Tony nominated State Fair, for which he received a Drama Desk Nomination. He also created the role of Nanki Poo in Hot Mikado at the Ford"s Theater in Washington, District of Columbia He has worked extensively with some of Broadway’s greatest talents, including Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine, Bernadette Peters, James Hammerstein, Paul Gemignani and Joanna Gleason.
Wright"s television credits include starring opposite Judd Nelson in National Broadcasting Company"s Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes and the American Broadcasting Company drama series Capital News with Lloyd Bridges and Helen Slater.
