Victor Rodger is an award-winning writer and producer of Samoan (Iva) and Scottish (Dundee) descent His plays include MY NAME IS GARY COOPER and BLACK FAGGOT which have been produced nationally and internationally. Through his theatre entity, FCC he has also produced several plays including Tusiata Avia’s WILD DOGS UNDER MY SKIRT, which played Off-Broadway earlier this year. He has held several writing residencies throughout New Zealand and was also the Fulbright/Creative New Zealand Pacific writer in residence at the University of Hawaii in 2006. He leads the Maori and Pasifika creative writing workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University and is attached to various projects in theatre, film and television.
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