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Frank Blocker performs two solo plays regularly: Stabilized, Not Controlled, and Drama Desk nominated Southern Gothic Novel (five states and counting), and teaches character acting and writing, as well as private coaching. He is currently developing two full-length plays Good Jew and Clarabee in Wichita Falls. Blocker won back-to-back titles at the 2012 Manhattan Monologue Slam and makes regular appearances at Forbidden Kiss LIVE as a comedian and singer. 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. He will reprise the role in Los Angeles in 2013.
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, Edward II, 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.
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.
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), 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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Frank Blocker performs two solo plays regularly: Stabilized, Not Controlled, and Drama Desk nominated Southern Gothic Novel (five states and counting), and teaches character acting and writing, as well as private coaching. He is currently developing two full-length plays Good Jew and Clarabee in Wichita Falls. Blocker won back-to-back titles at the 2012 Manhattan Monologue Slam and makes regular appearances at Forbidden Kiss LIVE as a comedian and singer. 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. He will reprise the role in Los Angeles in 2013.
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, Edward II, 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.
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.
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), 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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