Toa was born in Britain in 1975 to a British mother and a Fijian father and moved to Auckland in 1989. He was educated at Auckland's Sacred Heart College and the University of Auckland.
His first play, Bare, premiered in 1998 and achieved national and international success, winning Best New Play and Best New Playwright at the New Zealand Chapman Tripp Awards. It played to considerable acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1999. In that same year, Fraser followed up Bare with the solo show, No. 2, performed by Madeleine Sami.

No.2 won a prestigious Festival First Award when it was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2000, and has since had rave reviews in Jamaica, Australia, the UK, and recently it was translated into Spanish for the Cervantino Festival in Mexico.
In 1999, he won New Zealand's prestigous Sunday Star Times Bruce Mason Award.

Toa's work continues to be informed by his Fijian/British heritage, as demonstrated by his third play, Paradise, which premiered in Wellington, in April 2001.
In September 2001, Toa was the recipient of the University of South Pacific's Writer in Residence programme.

Bare was remounted in 2007 for Silo Theatre's 10th Anniversary and published by Playmarket (with No.2) in 2007.

Toa lives in Auckland and continues to write stage and screenplays.

Purchase Toa's book Two Plays