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Frank Blocker is an actor and playwright who resides in Los Angeles and New York City, AEA, SAG/AFTRA. He has enjoyed immense success with two solo plays: Stabilized Not Controlled, and Drama Desk Award-nominated Southern Gothic Novel (seven states and counting) with most recent runs at Stage Left Studio/NYC and The Visceral Company/Hollywood, respectively. He is currently developing full-length plays Good Jew and Clarabee in Wichita Falls. Blocker won a hat-trick of titles at the 2012 Manhattan Monologue Slam and made regular appearances at Forbidden Kiss LIVE as a comedian and singer for more than 2 years. He last appeared off-Broadway in The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, receiving a stream of glowing reviews for his performance as Tennessee attorney Larry Parrish, and reprising the role in Los Angeles for the 2013 run.
He made his television debut in season 12 of Law & Order: SVU. Favorite theatrical roles include Roderick Usher in Steven Berkoff’s Fall of the House of Usher, Mr. Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera,
He is best known for his character work and ability to switch roles in a second. He appeared on the NYC stages for more than a decade in experimental works and readings, as well as appearances with Peculiar Works Project, Forbidden Kiss at Stage Left Studio, and Gotham Radio Theatre, to name a few.
Mr. Blocker's plays include award-winning solo play Southern Gothic Novel (2009 Drama Desk Award nomination for Solo Performance, 2009 Broadway.com Audience Favorite Award nomination, New York International Fringe Festival, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Baltimore’s Sky Room, Columbus, Atlanta), hit New York comedy Stabilized Not Controlled, Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle (off-Broadway), Patient Number (Inner Voices Social Issues One-Act Play Winner/University of Illinois, Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Festival Finalist), Suite Atlanta (Fn Productions/78th Street Studio Theatre), Kiss and Fade (Short Attention Span Play Festival, Boston), The Wisconsinners (Dubuque Fine Arts Center), Fearless Moral Inventory (Stage Left Studio), Air Marshals (w/ brother James), Chameleüns (w/ Rochelle Burdine), Macbeth: The Murder Mystery (w/ Lydia Bolen-Gordon) and Alice, a musical, w/ composer William Wade (The York Theatre Development Series, Emerging Artists Theatre’s Notes From a Page, MITF). His one-minute play 2≅1 was presented by Brooklyn College for their GI60 project. Frank also edited sci-fi novel The Slaves of Votarus by Murray Scott Changar, Stage THIS! Ten-Minute Plays (edited w/ Jan Herndon), Stage This, TOO! More Ten-Minute Plays (edited w/ S. Stone and M. S. Changar), and Stage THIS! Volume 3 (edited w/ S. Stone and Dana Todd). He manages the website PlaywritingOpportunities.com (more than 5,000 visitors each month), is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Directing and choreography credits include So Long On Lonely Street, Graceland, Joseph/Dreamcoat, Pamela Parker’s Dreams of Martha Stewart and Lunacy.
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