Victor Rodger

Victor Rodger is an award winning playwright in New Zealand whose theatre work deals with race, racism and identity. Of Samoan and Pakeha heritage, Rodger's play Sons won acclaim at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards (1998) and received Best New Writer and Most Outstanding New New Zealand Play awards.^[1] In 2001, he won the Sunday Star-Times Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Other plays include Ranterstantrum (2002) and My Name is Gary Cooper (2007) which was produced and staged by Auckland Theatre Company. He gained the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writers’ Residency (2006)^[2] based at the University of Hawai'i.^[1] During 2004-2005, he studied film writing at the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam.^[2]

Rodger's father is from the village of Iva from Savai'i island in Samoa.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b [1]New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 7 November, 2009
^ ^a ^b [2]Fulbright New Zealand. Retrieved 7 November, 2009
^ [3]Playmarket New Zealand. Retrieved 7 November, 2009

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[nzbc-1] [1]New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 7 November, 2009

[fb-2] [2]Fulbright New Zealand. Retrieved 7 November, 2009

[PNZ-3] [3]Playmarket New Zealand. Retrieved 7 November, 2009

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