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- ↑ Diane Turbide (January 13, 1992). "Labors of love: Susan Wright was a power on and off stage". Maclean's . Retrieved August 31, 2020.
Best known for her work at Ontario's Stratford and Shaw festivals, Wright earned two Dora Mavor Moore awards for Toronto stage performances and an ACTRA award for a 1984 television drama. She also helped to found the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon in 1974.
- ↑ Shelley A. Leedahl (August 27, 2008). "Emry's Dream: Greystone Theatre in Photographs and Words". Sask Books. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
Variety shows and choruses had been performed at the U of S since 1909, but when Emrys Jones, a journalist, director, actor and educator, took the Drama Department's helm in 1945, Greystone Theatre's curtains rose on a new era of superbly directed and acted live theatre, and that tradition of excellence continues to the present.
- ↑ J. Kelly Nestruck (November 14, 2016). "Janet Wright played wise-cracking matriarch on Corner Gas". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved August 31, 2020.
She also had an important impact on theatre in her hometown, co-founding Saskatoon's Persephone Theatre in 1974 with her then-husband Brian Richmond and sister Susan. The theatre company is now the largest in Saskatchewan.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Wright, Susan". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Susan Ferrier Mackay (August 14, 2020). "Tony-winning performer Brent Carver commanded the stage in musicals and Shakespeare". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved August 31, 2020.
In December, 1991, a fire of unknown origin broke out at his house in Stratford. At the time an adored friend, actor Susan Wright, was staying at the home along with her parents. All three perished in the blaze.