E-Merging Writers     film * print * web * stage PRODUCER Managing Producer New producer bio. FRANK BLOCKER Managing Director/Playwright-in-Residence Mr. Blocker is a character actor and playwright, especially known for his solo performance work and wide-ranging vocal and physical characterizations, particularly of (but certainly not limited to) Southern. His play Southern Gothic Novel was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Solo Performance and his most recent work, an adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu developed with Dan Spurgeon, was met with overwhelming critical praise in Los Angeles. He has coached playwrights and actors for more than two decades. His other plays include Stabilized Not Controlled (Stage Left Studio, Hollywood Fringe Festival), Eula Mae’s Beauty, Bait & Tackle (off-Broadway, many cities), The Wisconsinners (Dubuque Fine Arts Center), Suite Atlanta (Atlanta, NYC), and Patient Number (winner, Inner Voices Social Issues Award). A producer and the owner of E-MergingWriters, Blocker has published and edited anthologies of plays and produced several works in New York City, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. He is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG /AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild. He has been an artist-in-residence for Creative Mechanics Theatre Company and (currently) for The Visceral Company in Los Angeles. He has been a guest speaker and presenter at colleges, festivals, and workshops, and was recently invited to guest on a ComiCon panel discussion. Actor website | Actor website | Frank & Teheché Cross the USA (blog) PAMELA PARKER Playwright Ms. Parker was born in a small mill town in Georgia and raised by grandparents who told stories about life in the rural South in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Despite having no educational background of any sort, Parker began writing plays in the late 1980s; the first three were one-act plays and all have been produced in New York and other cities. Second Samuel was her first full-length play. Dan Hulbert of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution named it the Best Original Play 1991-92. In 1995, Parker won the Southern Playwrights Competition at the Center for Southern Studies at Jacksonville State University in Alabama with A Higher Place in Heaven. In 1997, Pat Conroy invited Parker to the Southern Voices conference, Hoover, Alabama, to read from The Second Samueltonian—a collection of Parker’s short stories. In 2010, Parker became an international playwright when Second Samuel was produced in Perth, Australia. Her other plays include Grass Widows, Why I Live at the P.O., Home for Christmas, and Tallulah and Hattie: Dead at the Pearly Gates Café. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her spouse, 3 dogs, and welcomes turtles and pigs whenever possible.

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Bobby Abid Eric C. Bailey David-Matthew Barnes Amy Heath Bell Helen Bessette Alex Broun Rochelle Burdine Emilie Byron Mark Castle Oscar Castillo Murray Scott Changar Chima Chikazunga Lynne Cohen Bronwen Coleman Bill Cosgriff Creative Mechanics Charnele Marie Crick Heather Curran Chericia Curtis Noshir Dalal Craig Delancey William (Bill) DeMeritt Alison England Stacia Fernandez Fn Productions Wendy-Marie Foerster

Avi Glickstein Gaby Gold Tom Grady David Guaspari Lisa Hamilton J. Michael Harper Janice Herndon Mitchell Horn Evangeline Johns Bill Johnson LaChris Jordan Janice Kennedy Jeffrey James Keyes Cheryl King Vicki Riba Koestler Steven Korbar Shannon Maddox Moti Margolin Nick Mathews Claude McMillan Stefani Miller Shannon Murdoch Bonnie Navarro Kenwa Li Newell Robbie Neigeborn Jon Tyler Owens

Peculiar Works Project Jeffery Edward Peters Lynn Phillips Evelyn J. Pine Lowell Press Ellen Rosenburg Barry Rowell Adam Ruben Robin Russin Brian Schlanger Krista Severeid Gabriel Shanks Jen Shanks Peter Snoad Sydney Stone Stacie Theon Nomi Tichman Greg Tito Ian Rafael Titus Will Trice Dana Todd William Wade Mary Ann Walsh Jenn Wehrung Cara Vander Weil Michael Yeshion