Nathan Thomas Wright [email protected] Education MFA Columbia University School of the Arts. Playwriting. 2008. B.A. Weber State University. Theatre and English. 2005 Completed Works Full Length Plays • The Hero: A Reparative Myth 2020 • Manifesto: The Diaghilev Project 2018 2015 • Agonai Contrapposti Molodezhnikh or For the Love of Young Men and Tyrants • The Scarcity: Ten Scenes from Contemporary American Life 2014 • A Progressive Work and a Wonder 2014 • Women on the Water 2013 • The Wolves of Paris 2013 • Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope 2013 • Peninsula 2008 • Cheryl Rhodes and the Old Woman 2007 • Distance 2004 Short Plays (incomplete list) My Arm is in Pain (2014); Sun Means Goodness in Korean (2014); The Big Rock (2014); The Covered Woman (2014); By Thy Color, O Young One (2014); Passing The Love of Women (2014); Homorapture (2008); Naked Fish (2007); Mission (2006); Revising Childhood (2000); Bratya (1999); Conversations with Benjamin (1997) Nathan Wright Page 2 Productions • Manifesto : The Diaghilev Project—In Absentia Productions. New York, NY The Robert Moss Theatre. Directed by Nadia Foskolou July 2018 • In The Light, a musical—In The Light Productions Broadway, Orem, UT LLC & Utah Valley University. Directed by Jeff Whiting. December 2016 • In The Light, a musical—New York Film Academy. Directed by Jeff Whiting. New York, NY • Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope—Card Table Theatre February 2016 Company. Directed by Jeremy Auman. Lawrence, KS • The Wolves of Paris—In Absentia Productions. A June 2015 Developmental Workshop Production. Directed by Tony Speciale. New York, NY November 2014 • Peninsula – The New York International Fringe Festival with In New York, NY Absentia Productions, and The Fringe Encore Series. Winner Best July-October 2013 Ensemble, NYFringe Awards, 2013. Directed by Nadia Foskolou. • Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope –Manhattan Repertory New York, NY Theatre with In Absentia Productions. Directed by Nadia March 2013 Foskolou. • Peninsula—Manhattan Repertory Theatre with In Absentia New York, NY Productions. Directed by Nadia Foskolou. July 2012 • Naked Fish—Ego Po Productions Ten-Minute Play Festival. Philadelphia, PA Directed by Lane Savodove. June 2008 • Peninsula—Columbia University Playwriting Thesis Staged New York, NY Reading. Directed by Hal Brooks. April 2008 • Homorapture—Kenyon College Conference on Playwriting and Gambier, OH Religion. Staged Reading directed by Molly Rice. September 2008 • Naked Fish—Theatre Masters “Take Ten” Festival. Directed by New York, NY Wesley Savick. May 2007 • Naked Fish—Theatre Masters National Ten-Minute Play Award Aspen, CO Development Production. Directed by Lane Savodove. January 2007 • Cheryl Rhodes and the Old Woman—Columbia University New York, NY Summer Development Series. Directed by Rebecca Easton. August, 2007 • Mission—Columbia University Collaboration Project. Directed by New York, NY Nadia Foskolou. March 2006 • Distance—Plan-B Theatre Company Staged Reading. Directed by Salt Lake City, UT Jerry Rapier. May 2005 • Distance—Weber State University with Associated Actors and Ogden, UT Technicians. Directed by Larry Dooley. February 2005 • Revising Childhood—Orem High School. Directed by Sydney Orem, UT Riggs. April 2000 • Bratya—Orem High School. Directed by Sydney Riggs. Orem, UT January 1999 Nathan Wright Page 3 Translations and Collaborations In The Light, a musical—Book by Nathan Wright and Justin Silvestri. Music and Lyrics by Michael Mott. Currently in developmental workshops. In The Light Productions Broadway, LLC. Family Happiness—by Katia Rubina. Translation commissioned from the Russian by The O’Neil National Playwrights Conference, 2009. Architecting—co-produced by the TEAM and the National Theatre of Scotland. 2008. Contributing Writer. Written by the TEAM and directed by Rachel Chavkin. Winner of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Winner 2008 Edinburgh Total Theatre Award. Produced subsequently at Under the Radar Festival, Public Theatre, NY, and at the Barbican Center, London. The Best Intentions: The Bergman Project—adapted from the novel by Ingmar Bergman with Nadia Foskolou. Developed and performed Columbia University, 2008. Directed by Nadia Foskolou Moscow Express—translated from the play “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov and adapted with Nadia Foskolou. Performed Columbia University, 2007. Directed by Nadia Foskolou. Awards and Recognitions • Winner Paul Steven Lim Midwest Playwriting Competition. Lawrence, Kansas. 2015 • NYCFringe Best Ensemble Play Award, “Peninsula” 2013 • Featured in American Theatre Magazine. “Let’s Talk About God”. 2008 Written by Molly Rice. Vol.25. Issue 10. Dec.08 • Winner Theatre Masters National Playwriting Contest. 2007 • Winner Vera Hinckley Mayhew Playwriting Award. Brigham Young University. 1999 Teaching Experience • ONTO, Linguistic Institute—Moscow, Russia September 2008-July 2009 Courses: Creative Writing for Advanced Non-Native Speakers, Business English, Conversational English, Beginning English • Columbia University Summer High School Theatre Program— May 2007-August 2008 New York, NY • The 52nd Street Theatre Project—New York, NY. Internship. January 2008-May 2008 • The Rocky Mountain Children’s Summer Theatre—Provo, UT June 2000-August 2000 Additional Work and Experience • Personal Trainer and Fitness Consultant. Equinox Fitness. August 2009-June 2014 New York, NY. Nathan Wright Page 4 National Council on Sports and Fitness Certified, Equinox Fitness Training Institute Graduate Level 3, Pre and Post Natal Training Certification, Kettle Bell Training Workshop, Animal Flow Functional Training and Movement Modality. • Private Fitness Consultant. New Shore Training and September 2011-Present Nutrition. New York, NY. • Assistant Manager. Rise Services for People with July 2001-August 2004 Disabilities Assisted Living Group Home. Ogden, UT. • Missionary. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day October 1994-November 1996 Saints. Moscow, Russia. .