Dorsey Wright
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 Dorsey Wright facts

• Wright was born in The Bronx, New York City on April 21, 1957 and earned his first acting role in 1979, in The Warriors, for which he is best remembered
• He co-starred in the film version of Hair that same year
• In 1981, he appeared as a gang member in the film Ragtime and played Junior Jones in the 1984 film adaptation of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire
• It was his last film role
• Dorsey Wright was, for a brief time, part of a not-for-profit theater group based in New York City, called the Theater for the Forgotten
• The project was run by founders Akila Couloumbis and Beverly Rich, funded by The National Council for the Arts and several other sources
• The brainchild of Akila Couloumbis, the group put on plays for the institutionalized, ranging from prisons and drug rehab to hospitals in six states for thirty years, a long run for a creative non-profit organization
• Some of the plays were written in collaboration with the theater groups Dream 76 and Forever My Earth
• More of them were adapted with playwrights' permissions to the intended audience
• To learn more about this program, read The Proscenium Cage by Laurence Tocci