John AD Fraser
John AD Fraser has written more than two dozen plays performed in Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK.
His new play Incandescence was developed at Wyong Art House at the end of 2022.
In 2021, The Sisters of Goliath won best script at Electric City Playhouse, Anderson, South Carolina, USA.
Catch a Falling Knife won best script in 2019 at InspiraTo, Canada's largest short play festival.
A matter of life and death was performed at the Owl and Cat Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in 2017.
All the Rage premiered at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney and is published by Playlab.
Rock Paper Scissors also opened at the Old Fitzroy and published by Australian Plays Transform.
This was first read at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh, developed at the National Script Workshop in Canberra and performed at Playwriting Australia's inaugural National Play Festival in Brisbane. A moved reading was performed at the Finborough theatre in London as part of the Vibrant festival, celebrating the theatre's 30th anniversary. The show was first read in the USA at the Blank Theatre in LA in 2014.
John's show 100 Men also featured at Vibrant 2013 at the Finborough.
His first full-length play, The Last Great Roadhouse in Paradise was performed in Sydney in 2007.
John completed the NIDA Playwright’s Studio in 2005. The following year he visited the Traverse as part of a residency for emerging international playwrights. Other highlights include residencies at Glencanisp in Scotland, Bundanon Trust in NSW, HotHouse Theatre's A Month in the Country and performing at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
John is an approachable artist.
His new play Incandescence was developed at Wyong Art House at the end of 2022.
In 2021, The Sisters of Goliath won best script at Electric City Playhouse, Anderson, South Carolina, USA.
Catch a Falling Knife won best script in 2019 at InspiraTo, Canada's largest short play festival.
A matter of life and death was performed at the Owl and Cat Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in 2017.
All the Rage premiered at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney and is published by Playlab.
Rock Paper Scissors also opened at the Old Fitzroy and published by Australian Plays Transform.
This was first read at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh, developed at the National Script Workshop in Canberra and performed at Playwriting Australia's inaugural National Play Festival in Brisbane. A moved reading was performed at the Finborough theatre in London as part of the Vibrant festival, celebrating the theatre's 30th anniversary. The show was first read in the USA at the Blank Theatre in LA in 2014.
John's show 100 Men also featured at Vibrant 2013 at the Finborough.
His first full-length play, The Last Great Roadhouse in Paradise was performed in Sydney in 2007.
John completed the NIDA Playwright’s Studio in 2005. The following year he visited the Traverse as part of a residency for emerging international playwrights. Other highlights include residencies at Glencanisp in Scotland, Bundanon Trust in NSW, HotHouse Theatre's A Month in the Country and performing at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
John is an approachable artist.
