Tom Wright

Acclaimed Australian playwright Tom Wright was raised in Melbourne, the capital of Australia’s southeastern state of Victoria, where he studied Fine Art and English at university before becoming a full-time actor in the 1990s. Over the next ten years, he gradually shifted from acting to writing, finding his first major success in This Is a True Story, a one-man show about an American man on death row that he wrote and performed around the world. Ever since, he has come to be known primarily for his translations and adaptations of older plays, including the works of German playwright Bertolt Brecht (such as The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Baal, and The Good Person of Szechuan), Shakespeare’s histories, and numerous works of ancient Greek drama (e.g. Medea, The Trojan Women, and The Oresteia). From 2003 to 2012, he worked as an Artistic Associate and then the Associate Director at the Sydney Theatre Company, and since 2016 he has been an Artistic Associate at Belvoir, another theater company in Sydney.