Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His 2006 history of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other honors. Wright co-wrote the 1998 film “The Siege,” which depicts events eerily similar to those occurring in the U.S. after 9/11. In 2006, his one-man play “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” based on the book, enjoyed a sold-out, six-week run in Soho. Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Three Identical Strangers
as SelfNew York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets,...
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
as Self - IntervieweeGOING CLEAR intimately profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a...
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My Trip to Al-Qaeda
as HimselfJournalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses...
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The New Yorker Presents
as HimselfA groundbreaking series that brings America's most award-winning magazine, The New Yorker, to...
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God Save Texas
as SelfReturning to their hometowns, Texas filmmakers Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana...
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