Biography
Born in Audresselles, France, Frederic Colier currently 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 during this time 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.
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