Frederic Colier

Frédéric Colier (Audresselles, 2 August 1963) is a French-born polyglot filmmaker, playwright, novelist, musician and entrepreneur. He has been based in New York since 1995.
Biography
Born in Audresselles, France, Frederic Colier lives in New York City. Until 1990, he was the bass guitarist of the London-based pop rock band "Purple" which later charted success under the name of Dodgy. After an accident suspended his music career for several years, he segued into theater. It is while working at Her Majesty's Theatre, in the West End of London, that he completed his first plays and novel. All his writings from this period were in French.
He moved to Barcelona in 1992, where he taught music and continued writing. It was during his Barcelona sejourn that he began to write screenplays in English. The switch of language became more and more prominent, and in 1995 he decided to move to the States. While working at the New York based bilingual theatre group Ubu Repertory Theater, he completed a Masters in Film Studies at Montclair State University, NJ. After the closing of Ubu in 2002, he transitioned into films and graduated from the Digital Film Academy, NY. He continues to compose music mainly for his own films, under the group name of Hyper Global Intensity. He is a recipient of a 2007 Panasonic Digital Filmmaker Grants.
Career
Colier has produced and edited multiple film projects. He wrote and directed the short films, Of Wanderlust (2003), Desert Weeds (2004), which screened nationally and internationally and won awards on the festival circuit (Clermont-Ferrand, France; Izmir, Turkey; WorldFest Houston, Fire Island, NY), Bounce (2005). He completed his feature debut with The Hindenburg Omen (2008) and has been executive producer of the TV series Book Case TV and Books du Jour.
He has also written a number of theatre and literary fiction. He has written, produced, and directed theatrical plays on both sides of the ocean, notably Barbed-Wire Hearts and Heartbreak Tango. He has written two novels, Barabane! Barabane! and Traîte d'Union, and the collection of short stories Témoignages Crépusculaires. He has also authored the play collection, Playground for Talking Heads, the novel, The Rain Crow, as well as the short story collection, A Memoir of Absence, and the experimental novel, "The Bosphorus Hug."
Film and TV Works
* Of Wanderlust, 2003 (short film, written and directed by)
* Desert Weeds, 2004 (short film, written and directed by)
* Bounce, 2005 (short film, written and directed by)
* Ruminations on You and Me, 2006 (short film, written by Victoria Clark)
* The Hindenburg Omen, 2008 (feature film, written and directed by)
* Dinosaur Park, 2009 (feature film, written and directed by), based on his play, The Proposal
* My Last Play, 2012 (feature documentary about Brooklyn playwright Edward Schmidt, written and directed by)
* Book Case TV, 2012-14, TV series (34 episodes)
* Books Du Jour, 2014, TV Series (24 episodes to date)
* Made in China, 2014 (projected feature film, written and to be directed by)
Theater
* Les Bêtes du Bon Dieu, 1990 (in French) (full length)
* Life Support Machine, 1990 (two acts)
* Les Moustiques, 1990 (full length)
* L'Ordre Alphabêtatique, 1991 (27 tableaux)
* Le Mollusque, 1991 (monologue)
* Les Maîtres de L'oblique, 1992 (full length)
* La Folie Bergère, 1992 (in French) (full length)
* L'ascenseur, 1992 (full length)
* La Consigne, 1993 (full length)
* Grisou en Atomiseur, 1994 (monologue). Translated as Firedamp
* Beneath all of the Above, 1999 (full length)
* Heartbreak Tango, 1999 (half play)
* The Proposal, 2000 (half play)
* The Undertaking, 2002 (half play)
* Barbed-Wire Hearts, 2002 (full length)
* Sharing Circle, 2003 (half play)
Published Works
Fiction
* Fleur de Peau, 1990 (novel in French)
* Les Témoignages Crépusculaires, 1997 (short story collection in French)
* Within the Without, 1999 (novella)
* The Bosphorous Hug, 2000 (novel)
* A Memoir of Absence, 2007 (short story collection)
* The Rain Crow, 2008 (novel)
* Adrift, 2013 (novel, under Frank Debonair)
Young Adult
* Barabane! Barabane! 1993 (YA novel in French)
* Nick Klaus et le Paysage Désuet, 2013 (YA novel in French)
* Nick Klaus's Fables, 2013 (YA fiction)
* Nick Klaus and the Room of Lost Footsteps, 2013 (YA novel)
* Nick Klaus and the Incurable Jumblelium, 2014 (YA novel)
Cinema
* A Glimpse Into the Firing Squad, 2013 (collection of screenplays)
* Another Glimpse Into the Firing Squad, 2013 (collection of screenplays)
* Last Glimpse Into the Firing Squad, 2013 (collection of screenplays)
Theater
* Les Années Sourdes, Théâtre 1 (1991-92)
* Les Années Sourdes, Théâtre 2 (1993-95)
Poetry
*Les Limbes Oscillatoires (poetry collection, 1985-94)
*Songs of Angst and Pain (lyrics collection, 1988-95)
Non-Fiction
* Les Recettes de la Famine, 1993
* Reflections on Reflectionism, 2000
* Bruce Conner: in the Estheticization of Violence, 2002
Translations
*Platonov, by Anton Chekhov, Russian to English, 1998
*Justice Implacable, by A. M. Comley, English to French, 2014, as Frank Debonair
* Premier à tuer, by Andrew Peterson, English to French, 2015, as Frank Debonair

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