Fraser Grace

Fraser Grace
Consultant Fellow; Playwright

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.

Research topics

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.

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