Fraser Grace
Biography
Fraser Grace is a freelance playwright and author, whose plays included Breakfast with Mugabe and Always Orange for the RSC, The Lifesavers for the Mercury Theatre, Colchester/Theatre 503 and many other plays. He is co-author (with Clare Bayley) of Playwriting: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, published by Bloomsbury, and has also written, performed and published poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, plays for radio, an opera and a big screen documentary AK47: Kalashnikov’s Dream (for Tempting Films, based on his own stageplay). For six years he directed the Masters’ in Playwriting Studies at the University of Birmingham, has been a fellow of the Royal Literary Fund since 2016, and lives just outside Cambridge.
New opera project, The Flaming Torch with Anglo-American composer Andrew Lovett, based on an unfinished novella by Andrey Platonov.
BLISS a new stageplay based on a Russian short story. Premiered in Voronezh, Russia in June 2019, opening in London May 2020.
Other
- Tales from the Slaughterhouse Garden in Cambridge, G., Ed. A Self Among the Crowd, Royal Literary Fund., 2019
- Always Orange in Making Mischief, Two New Plays, RSC/Oberon, 2016
- Playwriting: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion, Bloomsbury, 2016
- Kalashnikov, in the woods by the Lake, Oberon, 2011
- King David, Man of Blood, Oberon, 2010
- The Lifesavers, Oberon, 2009
- Frobisher’s Gold, Oberon, 2006
- Gifts of War in TWO INTO WAR, Oberon, 2005
- Who Killed Mr Drum? (with Sylvester Stein), Oberon, 2005
- Breakfast with Mugabe, Oberon, 2005
- Perpetua, Oberon Modern Playwrights, 1999
MSt in Writing for Performance
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