Stephen Douglas Wright is a playwright, theater director and actor. He grew up in Troy, MI, lived for ten years in Grand Rapids, MI. He moved to Taiwan, first living in Taitung, then between Taipei and Taoyuan, and now resides in Hualien.
He co-founded the Curious Arrow Theatre company through which he co-produced the ten minute play festival Lucid, featuring scripts from around the US. Curious Arrow theatre also produced readings part one of his play Polarea and the Cloud Weaver and Steven Bogart's The Behavior of Wings.
Before this, he produced the Here 2 There Festival ten minute play festival on the theme of connection, focusing on largely on scripts from Grand Rapids (with the exception of a script by a playwright from outside Michigan). And independent of a theater company, he...
Stephen Douglas Wright is a playwright, theater director and actor. He grew up in Troy, MI, lived for ten years in Grand Rapids, MI. He moved to Taiwan, first living in Taitung, then between Taipei and Taoyuan, and now resides in Hualien.
He co-founded the Curious Arrow Theatre company through which he co-produced the ten minute play festival Lucid, featuring scripts from around the US. Curious Arrow theatre also produced readings part one of his play Polarea and the Cloud Weaver and Steven Bogart's The Behavior of Wings.
Before this, he produced the Here 2 There Festival ten minute play festival on the theme of connection, focusing on largely on scripts from Grand Rapids (with the exception of a script by a playwright from outside Michigan). And independent of a theater company, he self-produced his full length play Collisions in 2017.
He founded ran the 1yr a theater company, which sought seeks produce original plays between the summers of 2015 and 2016. With this company, he wrote, directed and produced Journey to the Stars, Doctor Arthur, and The Moon Will Rise and Grow (co-directed with Brittany Devon), and Asteria Rising.
His ten minute plays Lulu and Beth and Eugeneakleas were produced by the Southside Theater Company's 24 hour festival, and his ten minute play The True Story of Creation was produced by The Stark Turn Players as part of the company's annual ten minute play festival. The Hot White Light and The Lakeside Special were semi-finalists in Actors' Theatre, Grand Rapids' ten minute play festival. An excerpt of his play Garlands was produced by the Khaos Company Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In September 2020, his short play Coffee for Muriel was produced in Taipei, Taiwan as part of the Taipei Shorts festival.
Recently, his comedy sketches have been produced by The Storefront Theater in Chicago, IL, and Late Night Grand Rapids.
As an actor, Stephen has frequently performed onstage with the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, The Murder Mystery Company (American Immersion Theater), and on screen with Vigorous Fizz Productions in the films Loogie Lad, Imago and Drama class.
He is also a poet and prose writer. His work has been published by Z Publishing Company in Michigan's Best Emerging Poets 2019: An Anthology, Written Tales' Renewal, Menteur Magazine, and Boundless 2021 (an anthology of poems from the Rio Grande International Poetry Festival), and several editions of Aquinas College's Sampler. His short stories Two Kites, Endra's Mask, and Sea and Sky, I Will Be, are published, respectively, by Harvard College Children's Stories, Bengalaru Review and Celestal Review.
Outside of the theater world, Stephen teaches English as a second language to young learners. Before working in education, he worked with people with disabilities in management and direct care positions. He remains a proud and active member of American Model United Nations.
Stephen holds a bachelor of arts degree from Aquinas College with majors in theater (with a performance emphasis), philosophy, and political science.