Victor Rodger is a critically acclaimed playwright and producer of Samoan and Scottish descent. His
writing, often dealing with issues of sexuality, race and identity, has been praised for its boldness,
candour and freshness.

Victor began his writing career as a cadet reporter, wrote several children's stories for Radio New
Zealand Ears programme and had his first award-winning play, Sons, produced in 1995. A collection
of his work, Black Faggot and Other Plays was published by Victoria University Press (now Te
Herenga Waka University Press) in 2017. In 2016 his theatre producing entity, FCC revived Tusiata
Avia's play Wild Dogs Under My Skirt, later performing it off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse in New
York.

Victor has written for television productions such as Shortland Street, the critically acclaimed Māori
Television series, This is Piki and the Pasifika supernatural series Teine Sa: The Ancient Ones. His
fiction appears in the Māori and Pasifika anthology Black Marks on the White Page, Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa and the Penguin New Zealand Anthology: 50 Stories for 50 Years in Aotearoa.

He has held several writing residencies throughout Aotearoa including the Robert Burns Fellowship
at the University of Otago as well as the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the
University of Hawaii. In 2021 he was named an Officer of the Order of New Zealand merit for
services to theatre and Pacific arts and in 2024 was named an Arts Laureate.

Victor also teaches writing through the Institute of Modern Letters Maori/Pasifika creative writing
workshop at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.