A professional actor who grew up in Port Coquitlam is cast in the North American premiere of Room.
Ashley Wright plays the villain Old Nick in the musical adapted from the 2015 flick that saw its star, Brie Larson, win the Oscar for Best Actress.
The Mirvish/Convent Garden production, which runs next month at the Grand Theatre in London and repeats the following month at the CAA Theatre in Toronto (the same city where the movie was filmed), tells the story of a teenager held captive by Old Nick for seven years.
Her five-year-old son has never seen the outside world.
Recently, Wright wrapped up the Cost of Living runs in Vancouver and Edmonton. In 2018, he portrayed Stan in the Canadian premiere of Sweat, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, also for the Arts Club Theatre Company.
