Theatre entrepreneur who nurtured female talent through the Women’s Playhouse Trust and founded the Wapping Project
Jules Wright, who has died of cancer aged 67, was ago-getting and inspirational entrepreneur in a theatre world mostly supported by subsidy. She saw commercial potential in feminism and, working out of the Royal Court theatre in London, founded the Women’s Playhouse Trust (WPT) in 1984 with, among others, the actors Glenda Jackson and Diana Quick, the playwright Pam Gems and Rosemary Squire, currently co-owner of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
The project never took off in the West End, but its influence in nurturing female playwrights, actors and technicians was immense, and Wright herself directed important and blistering new plays by Sarah Daniels, Louise Page, Winsome Pinnock and Clare McIntyre.
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