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Brad Fraser
Brad
Fraser is one of
Canada’s best known playwrights, in addition to being a director for
stage and film, a talk show host and many other things. Born in Edmonton,
Alberta in 1959, he won his first playwriting competition at the age
of 17 and has been writing ever since.
His plays include: Unidentified
Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Poor Super Man,
(both named as one of the year’s ten best by Time
magazine); Martin Yesterday; Outrageous; Snake in Fridge
and Cold Meat Party, (both commissioned by the Royal Exchange
Theatre in Manchester, England); Mutants; Wolfboy;
Rude Noises; Chainsaw Love, Young Art; Return of
the Bride; The Ugly Man; and Prom Night of the Living
Dead.
Brad’s plays have won numerous
awards including the London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising
Playwright, the L.A. Critics Award, the Dora Mavor Moore Award, and
London’s Time Out Award for Best New Play. Brad is a five-time winner
of the Alberta Culture Playwrighting Competition and a two-time winner
of the prestigious Chalmers Award.
In addition to his work as
a playwright and director, Brad writes for print media, radio, film
and television including the movie “Leaving Metropolis,” which he
also directed. (Winner of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Audience
favourite award and currently available on DVD in Canada and America).
“I grew up with comic
books. For me, they were my neighbourhood. I grew up in a family that
was very nomadic. We moved at least once a year if not more often, so
that where other children found familiarity in the area they lived in
and where the school was, and the playground, and the store, and that
kind of thing – I never had that kind of familiarity, and for me it
always came from pop culture. It came from television shows that I could
find no matter where we were living, and comic books as well. Comic
books were my continuity, they were my neighbourhood.”
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