Southern Gothic Novel The Aberdeen Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident

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, NY 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, Chamelens (co-authored with Rochelle Burdine) and Alice w/ composer William Wade (The York Theatre Development Series, Emerging Artists Theatre's Notes From a Page, MITF). Frank also edited sci-fi novel The Slaves of Votarus by Murray Scott Changar, Stage THIS! Ten-Minute Plays (co-edited w/ Jan Herndon), Stage This, TOO! More Ten-Minute Plays (co-edited w/ Sydney Stone and M. S. Changar), and Stage THIS! Volume 3. 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. California-born, Arizona-raised, Okie-stamped transplant to the South, Mr. Blocker now resides in New York City where he continues to work as an actor and writer, specializing in solo show performance and character acting.