She co-founded the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, with her older sister Janet Wright, and brother-in-law Brian Richmond.
[3] Wright frequently performed at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario in the 1980s,[4] including roles as Mistress Quickly in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Queen Margaret in Richard III, Paulina in The Winter's Tale, Mrs. Webb in Our Town, the Citizen's Wife in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Mother Courage in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Germaine Lauzon in Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-soeurs alongside her sisters Anne and Janet.
In 1991 she also starred in the title role in a touring production of Willy Russell's play Shirley Valentine.
[4] She appeared in the theatrical films Christina, The Wars, Thick as Thieves and I'll Never Get to Heaven, the television films Slim Obsession and Love and Larceny, and episodes of Adderly, The Twilight Zone and Street Legal.
[4] She was staying in the Stratford home of Brent Carver, a close friend, with her visiting parents, when all three died in a house fire, in December 1991.