Toa Fraser

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Toa Fraser was born in Britain in 1975. He has a Fijian father and a British mother. He moved to Auckland in 1989. He attended Sacred Heart College, Auckland and is a graduate of the University of Auckland. Fraser is a playwright and film director.

Contents 1 Plays 2 Musicals 3 Films 4 Music Video 5 Awards 6 External links

[edit] Plays

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

[edit] Musicals

• Feedback (2002) (with Tim Finn)

[edit] 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

[edit] Music Video

• Bathe in the River

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Toa Fraser at the Internet Movie Database