Susan Wright (actor)
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Susan Wright was an award-winning Canadian actor.[1]
She grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan, where she performed at the Greystone Theatre.[2] She left the University, however, without graduating.
She co-founded the Persephone Theatre, in Saskatoon, with her older sister Janet Wright, and brother-in-law Brian Richmond.[3]
Wright performed at the Shakespeare festival in Stratford, Ontario. She was staying in the Stratford home of Brent Carver, a close friend, with her visiting parents, when all three died in a house fire, in December 1991.[4]
She won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards and an Actra Award.
References
- ↑ Diane Turbide (1992-01-13). "Labors of love: Susan Wright was a power on and off stage". Maclean's magazine. https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1992/1/13/labors-of-love. Retrieved 2020-08-31. "Best known for her work at Ontario’s Stratford and Shaw festivals, Wright earned two Dora Mavor Moore awards for Toronto stage performances and an ACTRA award for a 1984 television drama. She also helped to found the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon in 1974."
- ↑ Shelley A. Leedahl (2008-08-27). "Emry’s Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words". Sask books. https://reviews.skbooks.com/emrys-dream-greystone-theatre-in-photographs-and-words/. Retrieved 2020-08-31. "Variety shows and choruses had been performed at the U of S since 1909, but when Emrys Jones, a journalist, director, actor and educator, took the Drama Department’s helm in 1945, Greystone Theatre’s curtains rose on a new era of superbly directed and acted live theatre, and that tradition of excellence continues to the present."
- ↑ J. Kelly Nestruck (2016-11-14). "Janet Wright played wise-cracking matriarch on Corner Gas". The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/award-winning-corner-gas-star-janet-wright-dies-at-71/article32844305. Retrieved 2020-08-31. "She also had an important impact on theatre in her hometown, co-founding Saskatoon's Persephone Theatre in 1974 with her then-husband Brian Richmond and sister Susan. The theatre company is now the largest in Saskatchewan."
- ↑ Susan Ferrier Mackay (2020-08-14). "Tony-winning performer Brent Carver commanded the stage in musicals and Shakespeare". The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/article-tony-winning-performer-brent-carver-commanded-the-stage-in-musicals/. Retrieved 2020-08-31. "In December, 1991, a fire of unknown origin broke out at his house in Stratford. At the time an adored friend, actor Susan Wright, was staying at the home along with her parents. All three perished in the blaze."
