About

Nathan Wright is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. A playwright, director, and actor with over two decades of experience making theatre in New York City, Nathan is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, poet and visual creator.

He is currently the Artistic Director of In Absentia Productions, a New York based theatre company dedicated to developing and presenting new work that is at once cerebral, physical and vital.

In June 2024, Manifesto: The Diaghilev Project, his electro-pop collage theatre-piece, was performed in concert as part of the prestigious New York Bohemian’s 117th season. Originally presented in July 2018 as a developmental production with his long-time collaborators director Nadia Foskolou and experimental composer Dustin Gledhill, Manifesto featured performer Marc Sinoway as the famed and controversial Russian emigre and impresario, Sergei Diaghilev.

Nathan directed Charles Gershman’s The Waiting Game Off-Broadway at 59e59 Theatres in February 2019. He also directed its first production which was presented at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Best Over Seas Production.

In April 2019, In The Light, a Faustian Tale, for which he wrote the book with composer/lyricist Michael Mott was presented as an industry reading starring Jeremy Jordan, Teal Wicks and directed by Jeff Whiting.

He was a collaborator on the TEAM’s Architecting (directed by Rachel Chavkin, Winner 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, PS 122 and the Public Theatre Under the Radar).

His own plays include Peninsula (Winner of the 2013 Fringe Award at NYC Fringe and subsequently produced at The Player’s Theater in New York), Naked Fish (Winner 2007 National Playwriting Award, produced by Theatre Masters, Aspen, and EgoPo Productions, Philadelphia), Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Card Table Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas) Distance (Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake City), and HomoRapture (Kenyon College).

Additionally, he has translated Russian playwright Katia Rubina's Family Happiness (O'Neil Playwright's Center).

He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre and English from Weber State University.