Summary: Wright's script, “A Turn to Grace,” was a semi-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual Nicholl's Screenwriting Competition. Likewise, the Mark Taper Forum's Blacksmyth's Playwriting Program accepted and performed her “Prelude to a Revolution.” Tanya recently wrote and produced a series of Shakespearean-themed AIDS Public Service Announcement starring several African-American actors, including Oscar- nominated Taraji P. Henson. Wright is the writer/creator of several screenplays, television pilots, a soap opera, a web- based series and a reality show. Butterfly Rising: When her brother dies, singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia—Rose Johnson—to go with her. These two broken souls steal a vintage truck and head out on the open road to a fated encounter with the mythical, magical ‘Lazarus of the Butterflies.' What occurs with the strange Butterfly Man transforms their destinies and binds the women together—forever… http://www.butterflyrisingthemovie.com/about.htm
