Toa Fraser

Toa Fraser

Toa Fraser, born in Britain in 1975, of a Fijian father and a British mother, is a playwright and film director. His second feature film premiered in September 2008.

Life

Fraser moved to Auckland in 1989. He attended Sacred Heart College, Auckland and is a graduate of the University of Auckland.

Plays

*BARE (1998)
*No. 2 (1999)
*Paradise (2001)

Musicals

*Feedback (2002) (with Tim Finn)

Films

*River Queen (2005) (screenplay - co-writer with Vincent Ward)
*No. 2 (2006) (writer and director)
*Dean Spanley (2008) (director), screenwriter Alan Sharp from the novel by Lord Dunsany

Music Video

*Bathe in the River

Awards

*Best New Play and Best New Playwright, New Zealand Chapman Tripp Awards, 1998
*Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award, 1999
*Festival First Award, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2000: for the play version of No. 2
*University of South Pacific's Writer in Residence Fellowship, 2001
*The World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival, January 2006
*inducted to Arts Honours Board, Sacred Heart College, Auckland, September 2006 (along with, amongst others, Tim Finn and Dave Dobbyn)

External links

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