Gary Krasny, Theatrical Agent, The Krasny Office Inc, 1501 Broadway Ste 1303, New York, NY. 212-730-8160
Robert Freedman Literary Agency (for Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle), 1501 Broadway, Suite 2310, New York, NY 10036. 212-840-5760
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Actor/Playwright Frank Blocker’s plays include Eula Mae's Beauty, Bait & Tackle (off-Broadway), 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), 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), Air Marshals, 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.
As an actor, he is best known for his character work and ability to switch roles in a second. He frequently appears on the NYC stages in experimental works and readings, as well as appearances with Peculiar Works Project, Forbidden Kiss at Stage Left Studio, and Blakkapricorn Productions’ Meditations on a Theme, to name a few. Favorite roles include Mortimer in Brecht’s Edward II, Roderick Usher in Steven Berkoff’s Fall of the House of Usher, the "last Don" in The Don Quixote Project, Mr. Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera, and as a prisoner on the streets in the Obie-winning West Village/East Village Fragments. Prior to living in New York City, other favorites include The Importance of Being Ernest, Greater Tuna, Veranda I and II, and Pamela Parker’s Second Samuel.
What the Critics Say:
"Mr. Blocker is a standout … apparently, he can act in any position."
- New York Times, 2009, Southern Gothic Novel
"What a delight to watch even villainous characters imbued with so much life and charm."
- Backstage Magazine, 2009, Southern Gothic Novel
"Mr. Blocker believes so utterly in the roles he plays that he becomes these personages."
- The Philadelphia Bulletin, 2009, Southern Gothic Novel
"Frank Blocker is a fascinating Mortimer."
- Theater Mania, 2005, Edward II
"Frank Blocker as Roderick Usher could simply sit on stage and stare at the audience for the hour and I’d still be petrified."
- Talkin’ Broadway, 2004, Fall of the House of Usher
"Blocker steals the show."
- New York Times, 2001, Eula Mae’s Beauty, Bait & Tackle
bio for Frank Blocker, member Actors Equity Association & Dramatists Guild
