CRIS ELI BLAK is an emerging proud Black playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed and produced around the world, from Off-Broadway; across the country regionally; on university stages; as well as in London, Australia, Ireland, and Canada.
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He is the winner of the first Black Broadway Men Playwriting Intiative, the winner of the 2024 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, and the first place winner of Atlanta Shakespeare Company's inaugural Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwriting Fesitval. He is currently a staff writer on the hit Starz series, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, an Aritst-in-Residence with Off-Broadway's Abingdon Theatre Company and Liberation Theatre Company, and is a 2024-27 Core Writer with the Playwrights' Center. He was recently the Artist-in-Residence at The State University of New York - Oswego, the recipient of the Emerging Playwrights Fellowship with The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre Company, and a 2023 FORGE Fellow with FORGE-NYC.
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He has been a resident playwright with Fosters Theatrical Artists Residency, Paterson Performing Arts Development Council, Quick Silver Theatre Company, Yonder Window Theatre Company, and La Lengua Teatro en Español/AlterTheater Ensemble, and was an inaugural-year fellow with the Black Theatre Coalition.
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He is currently developing new work with Endstation Theatre Company, Blended City and The Sankofa Collective, and has developed work with Rattlestick Theatre, Company One, The Road Theatre, and American Stage; The Negro Ensemble Company, Pipeline Theatre Company, Et Alia Theater, the Napa Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Pikeville City Comission. His work has been published by Smith & Kraus, Inc., Ghost Light Publications, YOUTHPlays, Applause Books, New World Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble, and in the Black Theatre Review.
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