Michael Wright is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program of Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa, where he teaches playwrighting, screenwriting, adaptation and filmmaking. 

He is the founder and moderator of the Fictional Characters Writers Collective and co-representatice from the U.S. to World Interplay.

His books include the recently published PLAYWRIGHTING AT WORK AND PLAY; DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS AND THEIR PROCESSES.  His plays, poems, fiction, and photography have appeared in the Elvis Monologues, Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actor, Monologues from the Road, Rio Grande Review, and Voces Fronterizas, among others.

His short stories won first place in the Moondance Film Festival in 2004 & 2005.  Michael participated in the Screenwriting panel at Script-2-Screen Film Festival 2005.