Mark Wright is a graduate of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School.
Recently he has appeared as a lovable buffoon in Jason Momoa’s
Minecraft movie, been multiple cartoon characters in Kiri & Lou and
done a murderous turn in The Brokenwood Mysteries. He is currently
filming the darkly brilliant New Zealand comedy Good Bones but, as
always, Theatre is his first love.
He has appeared for every professional theatre company in New Zealand
and toured extensively throughout Australasia. Notably: The Rocky
Horror Show, Bouncers, A Way Of Life, A Midsummer Night’s Dream &
Ladies Night. He has featured in some 40 different television series/
programmes/specials and has won two New Zealand Film & Television
awards – both for best performance.
Playing everything from the dastardly villain to the romantic lead, Mark’s
other stage productions include:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Court Theatre
8 Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography – Silo Theatre
The Audience & 6 Degrees of Separation -Auckland Theatre Co.
The Last Song – Centrepoint Theatre
Mark is also a talented writer with a knack for creating characters that
draw us in to their stories and leave us wanting more. Nowhere is this
more apparent than in his passion project Voices From Gallipoli – Our
Mother’s Sons
Peer Review
Peter Feeney, Actor, Writer, Director
I’m still reeling, even a week after seeing
it, from the beauty and power of Mark
Wright’s tour de force, one person show,
‘ Voices From Gallipoli.’
An actor at the height of his powers, Mark is one of the few actors I can think
of who can convincingly jump from playing an 18-year-old conscript to an
80-year-old veteran, without missing a beat, and carry the audience with him.
And what a ride!
At times joyful, at others profoundly moving, and always true. All nine of his
characters were beautiful drawn: different enough and compelling enough to
enlist us this theatrical journey all the back to the heart of our nationhood.
It’s a one man show in more ways than one, being written and directed by
Mark as well. And what writing! Exhaustively researched, stitched cohesively
together, dialogue that sang and a story that avoided the pitfalls of sentimen
tality or heliography, but instead aimed for humanity – and hit the bullseye.
Altogether Mark’s talent and heart wove together a tapestry of triumph,
tragedy, wit, and humanity, that made sense of the phenomenon that was this
awful campaign.
Sparsely but precisely staged, hilarious, and gut wrenchingly moving, if there’s
any ancestry in your past that spans back to this conflict, and anything in your
DNA that relates to sacrifice, loss, suffering and heroism, this is the play for
you.
90 minutes of sageness and savagery that will get you thinking not just about
our nation’s past, but how much things really don’t change
