Unspeakable Conversations review – Liz Carr and Mat Fraser’s straight talk is enthralling
Playing a disability rights lawyer and the philosopher Peter Singer, as well as themselves, the actors deliver a powerful production
February 2024
Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’
Letters: Guardian readers respond to the row about a non-disabled actor playing Richard III at Shakespeare’s Globe
July 2020
Culture in peril
Mat Fraser: 'I’m hardcore – I want equality and I’m not going to stop'
The American Horror Story star is backing a plan by Graeae to put deaf and disabled artists centre-stage around the UK
May 2017
Richard III review – a stark and powerful coup
Mat Fraser is genially terrifying as the dastardly king in Northern Broadsides’ 25th anniversary performance
Richard III review – Mat Fraser proves a brilliant villain for Northern Broadsides
Swerving between charm and disgust in a dark, disturbing production, Fraser creates a sense of a man bitterly aware that he will never fit in
Mat Fraser on playing Richard III: 'I'd begun to feel like yesterday's cripple'
He’s staged Thalidomide! A Musical, stormed American TV and starred in an explicit fairytale with his wife. Now, Mat Fraser is raising hell as Shakespeare’s royal villain – without the hump
December 2014
Mat Fraser: 'Someone had the balls to make a drama starring freaks'
TV and radio blog
American Horror Story: Freak Show is the strongest season of the show so far
June 2014
Observer Ethical Awards 2014: arts and culture shortlist - video
Find out more about the three remaining contenders for the arts and culture award
Observer Ethical Awards 2014 winners
All the winners from this year's Ethical Awards
Observer Ethical Awards 2014 winners: Mat Fraser
The winner of the Arts and Culture Award on disability, medical curiosities and his latest show
February 2014
Outside the box: rethinking how museums present disability
Museums have a vital role to play in changing society's attitude to disability – our archives don't just speak, they shout about it
January 2014
Theatre blog
Mat Fraser's museum piece challenges us all to bring disability out of the box
Exposed: Beyond Burlesque – review
December 2013
Theatre blog
No sex please, we're in the theatre
Beauty and the Beast – review
June 2010
Radio review
Ouch!
Aside from its smart, lively mix of the funny and the serious, the BBC's disability talk show podcast offers a whole other perspective on life at the BBC itself, writes Elisabeth Mahoney
December 2008
DaDa Award winners
The DaDa Awards celebrate excellence in the work of deaf and disabled artists
February 2008
Go ahead - take a good look
A top Bafta manager has admitted to feeling 'uncomfortable' with screening a movie made by and about disabled people. Rubbish, says disabled actor Mat Fraser. We need more films about 'freaks'
April 2006
Podcast has a laugh at disability myths
The BBC's disability website, Ouch!, is blazing a trail for cutting-edge comedy with the launch of a typically irreverent new podcast.
