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Jules Wright by Michael Coveney

Theatre entrepreneur who nurtured female talent through the Women's Playhouse Trust and founded the Wapping ProjectJules 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…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM on June 26, 2015

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