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= Joseph Samuel Wright = Joseph Samuel Wright is an American writer and producer. Wright is primarily known for plays produced in New York City by NyLon Fusion Theatre Company and RaW Theatrical. Wright was the Founding Artistic Director of RaW Theatrical.

Theatre
Joseph Samuel Wright's first play Ours was self-produced in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2005. Ours was subsequently produced in Maryville, Tennessee and distributed to colleges around Tennessee. Wright's second play Constellation Nightglow premiered at the Clarence Brown Theatre Lab in Knoxville in 2008.

In 2009, Wright founded the NYC-based RaW Theatrical. The company's marquee programming was their annual Duct Tape and a Dream festival which premiered 5-8 new works together. During a seven year tenure, RaW Theatrical produced seven Duct Tape and a Dream festivals and premiered three additional plays outside the festivals. For the final year, Caralie Chrisco served as Artistic Director after Wright moved to Los Angeles. RaW premiered several of Wright's plays, including My Big, Thick Schtick (2010), The Mask of Medusa (2010), Unbecoming (2011), Bck to the Grnd (2012), Rise (2013), and I, Salome (2014).

Wright is also a company member of NyLon Fusion Theater Company through whom many of his short plays have premiered. As part of NyLon Fusion's Writers Collective, Wright co-wrote the plays You Are Here (2011) and Miss Hope's (2012). In 2015, NyLon Fusion premiered Wright's play Unmentionables.

Additionally, Wright's works have been produced by Barrington Stage, Outworks, Culture Project, Tiny Rhino LA, Core Ensemble, and Less Than Rent Theater.

Wright is an O'Neill Semi-Finalist for his play Have It Made for which he also received the Walter E Dakin Fellowship.

TV & Film
Wright is a staff writer for the Facebook Watch series TXT Stories. Prior to that, Wright wrote the short Jockstrap Palace (2017).

Wright received a 2015 Sloan Grant for the pilot Home to Roost.