Cris Eli Blak

Cris Eli Blak is an award winning playwright whose work has garnered him the Christopher Hewitt Award in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize nomination and honors and recognition from The Negro Ensemble Company, Kairos Italy Theater, Austin Film Festival, Barrington Stage Company, TEDxBroadway, and Ignition Arts. His work has been performed around the world, from Off-Broadway, London, Canada and Ireland. He is developing new work with Derby City Playwrights and Et Alia Theater Company and is currently under commission by Rattlestick Theater, American Stage and La Lengua Teatro en Español/AlterTheater Ensemble. He was the resident playwright at Fosters Theatrical Artists Residency and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Paterson Performing Arts Development Council and the recipient of the Quick Silver Theatre Company Michael Bradford Residency; was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and was a Black Theatre Coalition/Broadway Across America inaugural fellow. His work and contributions have been published by Smith & Kraus Publishing, Applause Books, A&U Magazine, New World Theatre, among others. He continues to strive to create work that reflects the world that we live in, with all of its different and diverse colors, creeds and cultures.