Sean David Wright

Raised in the Bronx, New York by two of the founding members of the folk group Peter, Paul, Mary and Yitzhak, Sean David Wright started his adult life on the wrong side of the law.

“Right after high school I joined a militant insect rights group. Actually, I didn’t care much about the cause; but the girl who ran it was hot and so, well, cherchez la femme and all that.
“Our first rescue mission was in the summer of 1987. The target was a manufacturer of household cleaners in Queens that was testing effects of exposure to its chemicals on roaches. After a brief firefight with the company’s guards we gained control of the testing lab and then managed to escape with five cartons of captive roaches that we intended to set free in the U.S. House of Representatives, so they could live among their own kind. But as we were making our high-speed getaway our truck overturned and from the wreckage the sixty-thousand roaches we had just rescued spilled onto Grand Central Parkway, then we had to watch in horror as these creatures we meant to save were then flattened by rush hour traffic.”

Wright and his cohorts evaded arrest and immediately went on the lam.

“I spent the better part of twenty years moving around from place to place; living off the grid, like that guy in the “Terminator” movies.”

But then a chance meeting a few years ago with a disbarred lawyer in Possum’s Armpit, California gave Wright his life back.

“He told me the statute of limitations for illegally rescuing roaches from chemical companies was something like six months. Six months! If I had known that I could’ve spent Christmas 1987 with my family instead of in Brazil playing in a forró band.”

Now Wright is an artist, specializing in graphite drawings and photography.

“I have no training for anything else, unfortunately,” he says. “That’s what living off the grid does to you; it keeps you from learning any useful skills, and, let’s face it, the demand for forró music here in the States isn’t all that high, though I play a mean triangle.”

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