Event

Ghost Light - Shawn Wright

In 2014, Shawn travelled back-and-forth between Toronto and New Brunswick to
spend time in the nursing home with his dying mother, Regina. Their visits happened in
the evenings, and coincided with Regina's favourite show: Murder She Wrote. Shawn
was welcome to watch with her, but his mom had one strict rule: No talking until the
commercials. It was during these breaks that his mom shared her most poignant,
hilarious and revelatory life moments with her grown-up baby boy. As Angela Lansbury
solved her cases, Shawn chronicled these precious encounters. Ghost Light is those
stories... its her story.

Shawn Wright graduated from UNB with a degree in English Literature all the while
honing his acting craft with Theatre St. Thomas. For TNB he has starred in A Christmas
Carol as Scrooge, The Bricklin as Premier Richard Hatfield and Hockey Dreams as
David Adams Richards . He has done 15 productions for the prestigious Stratford
Shakespeare Festival. He has done 11 productions for the world renowned Shaw
Festival where veteran Toronto Star critic Bob Crewe called Wright's interpretation of
Nathan Detroit in Guys & Dolls "the most perfect I have ever seen".
Shawn was in the original Los Angeles cast of Mamma Mia, the original Toronto cast of
Jersey Boys and the original Broadway workshop cast of Ragtime. He had a leading
role in the 2006 world stage premiere of Lord of The Rings which at 25 million dollars
was the most expensive ever produced at that time. On TV he has starred on Murdoch
Mysteries, Due South and a host of others. He has won Toronto's Dora Award and
Stratford's Guthrie Award as well as a host of nominations for the Broadway World Award. I
n a 30 year career, Shawn has been working non-stop in everything from
Greek tragedies to Norm Foster comedies. Shawn credits his passion for the stage to
his mother. Ghost Light is his first play. It's for her.