After graduating and moving to Los Angeles, Wright got a job at Nickelodeon Animation and was soon hired to write on "The Angry Beavers". Episodes that Wright wrote were nominated for a Daytime Emmy in Sound Mixing and for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program. After Wright finished work on "The Angry Beavers", he created a pilot for Nickelodeon, "Constant Payne", an anime-inspired Dieselpunk science fiction show, with an aesthetic inspired by "Russian wood-block propaganda posters of the 1920s and 30's." Since 2001, Wright has worked primarily in the field of video game writing. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, where he is the chair of the Video Game Writers Caucus. He also served as the vice-chair of the Native American and World Indigenous Writers Committee, and on the steering committee of the Animation Writers Caucus, and was on the Guild Negotiating Committee is 2014.