ABOUT

Mary Wright has been a professional theatre actress, director, playwright and storyteller for more than 25 years. Her affiliation with Touchstone began when she moved to Bethlehem in 1997. Since then she has been a Community Guest, a volunteer, an Ensemble Affiliate, an Ensemble Member, and Young Playwrights’ Lab Coordinator. She is an actress (Laura, The Glass Menagerie; Little Red, Christmas City Follies; Maj, Bhudoo; six dictators, Dictators 4 Dummies; Madam Morrow, America Dreams), director and playwright, (Southside Experience, JOURNEY: Dream of the Red Pavilion, Aesop & Co.) and costumer (Ulysses Dreams, America Dreams, Christmas City Follies). Mary graduated from Allegheny College with a B.A. in Theater Arts, and trained in the Kennedy Center’s “Partners In the Arts” program. In addition to her work with Touchstone, Mary is a professional storyteller and workshop leader, teaching storytelling and creative process workshops to hundreds of artists across the country. Mary is a founding member of the Lehigh Valley Storytelling Guild, co-founder of Friends of Liberty Theatre, and a rostered teaching artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She received the 2014 Individual “Tribute to the Arts” for her contribution to the arts from the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and the 2022 Women In Leadership In The Arts Award for her contribution to the Southside community. 

Reach out to Mary here: mary@touchstone.org