Tom Wright (Australian actor)

Tom Wright
Born	Thomas Michael Wright (1983-06-22) 22 June 1983 Melbourne, Australia
Other names	Thomas M. Wright
Occupation	Actor, producer, writer, director, theatre designer
Years active	1998–present

Thomas Michael "Tom" Wright (born 22 June 1983) is an award-winning Australian producer, actor, writer, director, and theatre designer. He is the co-founder and director of The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm.

Early life

Wright was born in Melbourne, the eldest of three children.

Career

Wright featured as Johnno Mitcham in Jane Campion's series Top of the Lake (2013), for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2013 US Critics Choice Awards. He appears as Steven Linder in the US adaptation of Danish series The Bridge. In 2015, he appeared in the Universal / Working Title feature Everest, a film based on the 1996 tragedy. He played murdered journalist Brian Peters in Balibo (2009) and Thomas Bodenham in Van Diemen's Land (2009).

He has a strong theatre background, and has directed and designed productions for the Adelaide Festival, Belvoir St. Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Queensland Theatre Co. and Brisbane Festival, among others. He has played lead roles for the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, and the Sydney Theatre Company production of Baal, directed by Simon Stone.

Wright created The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm in 2006 at the age of twenty two, with fellow writer and director Thomas Henning. The company has received nominations, awards and critical acclaim since its inception and has been hailed as one of the most influential independent companies of the past decade.

Wright was the writer, designer, and director of the theatrical production Doku Rai, created over four and a half years, with a three-month rehearsal process on the remote island of Atauro, East Timor. The film sequences in the production were co-directed with Amiel Courtin-Wilson. Doku Rai played to public and critical acclaim at the Darwin Festival, Melbourne Arts House, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, and Sydney Carriageworks, and was named one of the best productions of 2013 by Time Out and The Monthly Magazine, as well as being nominated for best production of the year at the 2013 Green Room Awards.

Wright is currently developing a production with The Encircling Sea.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2000	Stepsister from Planet Weird	Cutter Colburne
2001	Zenon: The Zequel	Orion
2007	The King	Alfie
2009	Van Diemen's Land	Thomas Bodenham
2009	Balibo	Brian Peters
2010	Torn	Tim Strauss
2015	Everest	Michael Groom

Television

Year	Title	Role
2013	Top of the Lake	Johnno Mitcham
2013–2015	The Bridge	Steven Linder

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	51 Ashworth St.	The Boy	Co-writer, co-director, designer
2005	Hamlet	Laertes	Beggars Theatre
2007	The Glass Soldier	Jonas Fink	Melbourne Theatre Company
2007	Pimms	Dying Man	Writer, co-director The Black Lung Theatre
2008	Love Song	Beane	Melbourne Theatre Company
2008	Avast I	The Older Brother	Malthouse Theatre
2008	Avast II	Jack Lemmon	Co-director, designer Malthouse Theatre
2009	Glasson	God	The Black Lung Theatre
2010	Furious Mattress	The Exorcist	Malthouse Theatre
2011	Baal	Baal	Sydney Theatre Company
2011	And They Called Him Mr. Glamour		Director, designer Belvoir St. Theatre
2011	I Feel Awful		Writer, director, designer Brisbane Festival
2013	Doku Rai		Co-writer, director, designer The Black Lung Theatre

External links

• Tom Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• The Black Lung Theatre
• Savages