Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser, is a Canadian playwright. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally.
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 wearing many other hats.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1959, Brad won his first playwritings competition at the age of 17 and has been writing ever since.
Brad’s International hit play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love premiered at Alberta Theatre Projects PlayRites festival in 1989. It has since been produced worldwide, and has been translated into multiple languages.
Poor Super Man, developed by Canadian Stage, was first produced by the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati in 1994 and has enjoyed successful runs worldwide.
It was nominated for a Governor General’s Award for Drama and has now been developed into a feature film with Brad as writer and director. Poor Super Man, like Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, was listed by Time Magazine as one of the top ten plays for that year.
The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England commissioned Snake in Fridge, which opened November 20, 2000.
Other produced plays include: Mutants, Wolfboy, Rude Noises (For a Blank Generation), 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. Brad’s film and television work include Love and Human Remains, Parade, and the self-directed Leaving Metropolis.
He worked as a writer and Supervising Producer on Showtime’s highly popular Queer As Folk for three seasons and continues to develop scripts for film, TV and Stage. Brad has been playwright in residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, Workshop West Theatre and Alberta Theatre Projects.
He has been a three-time member of the Banff Centre’s Playwrights Colony. Currently Brad divides his time between his home in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Brad’s work has enjoyed the very important support of The Canada Council, The Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta Culture, The Trillium Foundation, The Laidlaw Foundation, Telefilm Canada and The Ontario Arts Council. Without the support of these groups Brad’s work would not have achieved its success.