Micah Wright

Micah Ian Wright (born February 7, 1974) is an American writer who has worked in film, television, animation, video games and comic books.

Micah Wright
BornMicah Ian Wright
(1974-02-07) February 7, 1974
Lubbock, Texas, United States
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Stormwatch: Team Achilles
http://www.micahwright.com/

Biography

Biographic detail that Wright has posted on-line about himself[1] claims that he was the child of a parent in the US Navy and lived overseas. Wright was born in Lubbock, Texas,[2] and graduated from the University of Arizona with degrees in political science and creative writing. While at school, he was involved in a weekly sketch comedy show named Comedy Corner where he started as a writer and eventually became a performer.

After graduating and moving to Los Angeles, Wright got a job at Nickelodeon Animation and was soon hired to write on The Angry Beavers. Episodes that Wright wrote were nominated for a Daytime Emmy in Sound Mixing and for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program.[3] After Wright finished work on The Angry Beavers, he created a pilot for Nickelodeon, Constant Payne, an anime-inspired Dieselpunk science fiction show, with an aesthetic inspired by "Russian wood-block propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30's."[4] Since 2001, Wright has worked primarily in the field of video game writing. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, where he is the chair of the Video Game Writers Caucus. He also served as the vice-chair of the Native American and World Indigenous Writers Committee, and on the steering committee of the Animation Writers Caucus, and was on the Guild Negotiating Committee is 2014.

In 2007, Wright and his writing partner, Jay Lender, were "instrumental" in creating the WGA's first ever Video Game Writing Award as part of the traditional film and television Writers Guild Awards. According to the WGA, the award is designed "to encourage storytelling excellence in videogames, to improve the status of writers, and to begin to encourage uniform standards within the gaming industry, to spotlight a wide range of quality work by video game writers, raising their profiles and validating their contributions to this rapidly maturing medium".[5]

His graphic novel Duster was released in 2015.

In March 2016, the film They're Watching which he co-wrote and co-directed with Jay Lender was released day-and-date to theaters and on video on demand services by Amplify Releasing. It is currently available on Netflix.

Controversy

Shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Wright published an anti-war protest book, You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! The book, a satirical collection of old military propaganda posters repainted to feature modern anti-war messages, featured an introduction where Wright claimed to have been a former United States Army Ranger Sergeant, who experienced combat in Operation Just Cause, the 1989 invasion of Panama (when he would have been 15 years old). Wright gave a radio interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.[6] In 2003, gossip columnist Richard Leiby wrote a two-page article extolling Wright's poster work for The Washington Post.[7] Wright's credentials were immediately questioned by real Rangers who contacted Leiby. A year later, when Wright learned Leiby was writing an exposé questioning his military service he confessed and apologized online.[8][9]

Bibliography and filmography

Film

Video games

Books of political commentary
  • You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want! (ISBN 1-58322-584-6), Seven Stories Press, (2003)
  • If You're Not a Terrorist, Then Stop Asking Questions! (ISBN 1-4134-9276-2), Xlibris, (2004)
  • Surveillance Means Security!! (ISBN 1-58322-741-5), Seven Stories Press, (2006)

Comics

Short stories

Collected editions

Notes
  1. "Micah Wright". Micah Wright. May 11, 1997. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  2. "Lubbock, Texas". City-Data.com. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  3. "The Angry Beavers (1997–2001) : Awards". IMDb. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  4. "Micah Wright". Constantpayne.com. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  5. "wga's first videogame award". Wga.org. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  6. "You Back the Attack, We'll Bomb Who We Want!–A Collection of Remixed War Posters". Democracy Now!. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  7. "Vintage Propaganda's Revisionist Visonary". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. July 6, 2003. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  8. "Mea Culpa". Micah Wright. May 8, 2004. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  9. "Micah Wright Comes Clean, Ranger Story a Hoax". CBR. May 2, 2004.
  10. Genzlinger, Neil (March 24, 2016). "Review: They're Watching, and Reality TV Is Capturing Every Eerie Second". The New York Times.
  11. Hatfield, Daemon (January 22, 2008). "Robocalypse Now: A more efficient RTS". IGN.
  12. Hatfield, Daemon (January 31, 2008). "Robocalypse Interview: The writers want to give you more of a reason to play than just 'finishing it'". IGN.

References
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