Pine City plays
Wright set four plays in Pine City, Minnesota.
Molly's Delicious, a romantic comedy, first played at the Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia, in September 1997, directed by Aaron Posner. The play takes place in Pine City, Minnesota, in 1965.
The next play set in Pine City is Orange Flower Water, described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "a brutally honest drama about marriage and infidelity." The play premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, from October through December 2003. and ran Off-Broadway at the Edge Theater Company in April 2005.
It was published in August 2004. In 2005 it was performed at the Off-Off-Broadway Theater for the New City with a cast of Arija Bareikis, Paul Sparks, Jason Butler Harner and Pamela J. Gray, directed by Carolyn Cantor, and a 2013 production in Los Angeles was critically reviewed by Backstage.
The Pavilion premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in September 2005. The Pavilion was nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association Best New Play Award and a 2005–2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and has had over 40 productions since its premiere in 2000; in the 2008 summer season it was produced at the Westport Country Playhouse. It was also produced for Boise Contemporary Theater's 2009/10 Season.
Melissa Arctic is the last play of his Pine City works, and ran at the Folger Theatre, Washington, DC, in January and February 2004, with direction by Aaron Posner.
