Academy Award Winner Steven Wright is a prototype comedian that many others continually try to follow. One of four children, Steven was raised in Burlington, MA. Upon graduating from Emerson College and holding a bevy of odd jobs, Steven attended an "open mike" audition and became a regular performer at Ding Ho's Comedy Club and Chinese Restaurant in Cambridge, MA.
It was during this time that Steven got his big break and was booked for his first Tonight Show appearance in August of 1982. The ‘king of late night' enjoyed the performance so much he invited Steven to appear again the following week, a rarity on The Tonight Show. His back-to-back appearances helped put his fledgling career into high gear. The comic soon found himself performing his off-beat routines on Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, in between numerous trips back to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Steven expanded his comedy career to include comedy albums, film and television appearances. His 1985 debut album I Have a Pony earned him a Grammy nomination. In 1985, he starred in his first HBO Special A Steven Wright Special. In 1989, Steven was honored with an Academy Award for Best Short Film for his film entitled The Appointments of Dennis Jennings in which he starred and co-wrote.
In September of 1990, Steven starred in his second stand-up special for HBO called Wicker Chairs and Gravity. The special included stand-up from The Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto and a short film shot on location in New York and New Jersey.
Steven has been seen in numerous films including Desperately Seeking Susan, Mike Meyer's So I Married An Axe Murderer, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, and Nora Ephron's Mixed Nuts. Steven was the voice of the DJ, K-Billy in Reservoir Dogs and starred with John Cleese and Jack Palance in New Line's animated film, The Swan Princess as the voice of Speed, the turtle. Steve also appeared as a sitcom actor in MGM's Speechless with Harry Shearer, and as a Mountie in the MGM release Canadian Bacon, opposite the late John Candy.
Steven also had a guest starring role in Albert Brooks' film The Muse starring Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, and Jeff Bridges. In 1998 he played a supporting role in Dave Chappelle's Half-Baked and was a featured voice in Babe 2: Pig in the City.
Steven wrote, directed and starred in the 1999 short film, One Soldier, the story of a man obsessed with the unanswerable questions in life. The film was screened at numerous film festivals and can be seen on the Independent Film Channel.
In October of 2006 Steven released on Comedy Centre, the hour special, When The Leaves Blow Away that also includes Steven's short film One Soldier.
