“Unless I go through my nighttime routine of telling my body it's time to go to bed, for some reason if I get into bed and close my eyelids, my mind is like all right now we're going to figure out all of your life problems. You know, 'How am I going to figure out how to pay property taxes for the next 50 years.'”

English rock musician, actor, writer, and performance artist

Mat Fraser is an English rock musician, actor, writer, and performance artist. He is known for his work across music, stage, screen, and live performance, and for speaking publicly about living with thalidomide-induced phocomelia. His career spans several forms of artistic work, with credits in music and performance as well as writing and acting. Fraser’s public profile has also been shaped by his advocacy and by the way he uses performance to challenge assumptions about disability and identity.