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The Monologue Show, by Frank Blocker, directed by Helena Gleissner  candy graphic   

Frank Blocker photo Frank Blocker. (Author/Performer) Plays include Southern Gothic Novel (Drama Desk Award nominee for Solo Performance), Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle (off-Broadway), Patient Number (Inner Voices Social Issues One-Act Play Winner-University of Illinois), Suite Atlanta (78th Street Studio), The Wisconsinners (Dubuque Fine Arts Center), Kiss and Fade (Atlantis Playmakers, Boston), Air Marshals, Chameleüns (w/ Rochelle Burdine), Macbeth: The Murdery Mystery (w/ Lydia-Bolen Gordon), Alice w/ composer William Wade, and one-minute play 2≅1 (Brooklyn College/GI60 project). He is currently finishing up a new solo play, Good Jew (though he isn’t either). Frank also edited sci-fi novel The Slaves of Votarus by Murray Scott Changar, and co-edited Stage THIS! Ten-Minute Plays, Stage This, TOO! More Ten-Minute Plays, and Stage THIS! Volume III. His next role is Jefferson Davis in Twighlight with Steven Cooper, filming in November. On stage, he has appeared with Peculiar Works Project in their Obie-award winning West Village Fragments/East Village Fragments, and was very proud to be "the last Don" in their Don Quixote Project. New York credits include Roderick Usher in Berkoff’s Fall of the House of Usher, Mortimer in Brecht’s Edward II, and Mr. Peachum in PWP's The Beggar’s Opera. Other favorite include Damn Yankees, Greater Tuna, and The Verdict. He is an honors graduate of Cameron University and studied theatre and writing at Southeastern Oklahoma State University under Molly Risso and Dennis Letts/Howard Starks, respectively. He lives in Manhattan with his dog and cat. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild.


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Helena Gleissner photo Helena Gleissner. (Director) Helena received her Masters of Arts in Theatre from Michigan State University, and her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Theatre from Shorter College. NYC directing credits include Transplants: Tiny Plays, Working It Out and Dying is Easy for IBT (International Brain Transplants), Lobster Tales, Rumple Who, Burning Man, Pow'r in the Blood at 13th Street Rep, Charles Borkhuis’ Barely There for Boog City Poets Festival and scenes for Peculiar Works Projects’ East Village Fragments. Helena has assistant directed for Jason Dezunski at PetroLabs and Ciaran O'Reilly at the Irish Rep Theatre including the Drama Desk-nominated production of The Hairy Ape.


Stage Left Studio Logo Stage Left Studio and Cheryl King Productions. Cheryl King created Stage Left Studio in 2005, and presented her first performances there in January of 2006. Her first offerings were her own show, not a nice girl, Pandora Scooter's Samuraization and Katie Northlich's Character Forum: A Thesis. These shows ran in repertory for nearly three months, and set the tone for what has become the pre-eminent solo play showcase in NYC. Since that time, Cheryl has presented over one hundred solo shows, including works by acclaimed artists John Fugelsang, Esther Chae, Joe Hutcheson, Cyndi Freeman, Anthony Johnston, and Toni Silver. These performers, and many others, have found Stage Left Studio the perfect place to develop and showcase their work. Cheryl King is resident acting coach at All My Children, and is a playwright, director and actor. Her solo show ran in NYC & Los Angeles. She directed Southern Gothic Novel, by Frank Blocker, which ran for more than six months at Stage Left and received a Drama Desk Award nomination. In October 2007, Cheryl created the annual Women at Work Festival, to showcase work by women and in April 2008, created the Left Out Festival, with Joe Hutcheson. Stage Left Studio has become the locus of a community of solo artists, creating and developing new plays. Cheryl's dream continues to play itself out, and brilliant performers, with edgy, significant work, find the support and opportunities they need to bring their dreams to life. Member of Dramatist's Guild and NATAS. CherylKingProductions.com


Special Thanks
(solo shows don’t
happen alone)
Eric C. Bailey, Dan Barr, Derek and Amy Heath Bell and Family, Andrea Biggs, The Blocker Family, Rochelle Burdine, The Changar Family, John Coffey, Melinda Ferrarracio, Stacia Fernandez, God, Lydia Bolen Gordon* (co-author of Macbeth: The Murder Mystery), DeeAnne Gorman, Tom Hall, Mitchell Horn, Robert Judd, Jendi Tarde Killberg, Cheryl King, Garth and Heather Koren, Judy Jacksina, Billie and Dennis Letts, Ed Malone, Stefani Miller, Alan & Linda Patton, Jerry Payne, Michael Perecca, Angelina Phillips, Chuck Richards, Ellen Rosenberg, Krista Severeid, MaryAnn Walsh, Cara Vander Weil, Charles, Williams, Richard Wilson



The Monologue Show, a solo play, written and performed by Frank Blocker, directed by Helena Gleissner

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