FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY Begins Previews 2/15 at Stage Left Studio Theater

When we last left Frank Blocker he was at the Stage Left Studio Theatre where he was starring in his sold-out, critically-acclaimed, three-times-extended and award-nominated (Drama Desk & Audience Awards) "Southern Gothic Novel" which has since been published in paperback by CreateSpace and is available on Amazon.com. The spoken word CD will be released by the publisher on February 15th.

Well.

Mr. Blocker is back. Unplugged. And fearless.

His "FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY" will open at the Stage Left Studio Theatre (438 West 37th Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) on MONDAY, MARCH 8th and play through MONDAY, MAY 31st with the option to extend through July 26th.

Preview performances will begin on Monday, February 15th.

Produced by Cheryl King Productions and E-Merging Writers, "FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY" is being directed by Helena Gleissner.

Scenery is by Edward Morris. Lighting is by Mary Catherine Moore. Costumes are by Murray Scott Changar. Sound design is by Kenneth Allen. Sound Editing is by Copperhead Studios.

Fight choreography is by Kathy Kelly Christos.

"FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY" is 75 minutes long and introduces the general public to 64 characters all of whom are channeled through Mr. Blocker; the single man on stage ruining his health to deliver this comedy about a group of people, the citizenry of the play, who have been forced to take complete honest stock of their lives and the lives of those around them. What is called for here is complete HONESTY. What is also called for here is complete COURAGE. As these people grapple with the truth about themselves try not to judge them too harshly; but rather fairly and with love. The laughter is free.

Those on stage being challenged to tell the truth come from many and varied walks of life. There is Marvin, the blind guy who dates redheads. Followed closely by The Very Right Reverend Doctor Raymond B. Smythe who loathes pervs. Richard, the serial banker. Anna Mae, the reluctant widow. Jon-Paul R. Georges, the ingrate son. The much too involved Mother on a mission to ruin a honeymoon. Joe Tennent, the murderous landlord. Sister Aloysius and Sister Theresa. Iona Winchester, the mad hatter. Franklin Ian Brown, a performer of sorts. Jackie Oh. Henrik, Jr., the clairvoyant cab driver. Carl Joe, the honorary Blood. Lois, Lottie's best friend. And Sue-Sue Daniels the addicted Everywoman from the deep South. To name but a few.

THE THEATRE
Stage Left Studio Theatre
438 West 37th Street - (between 9th & 10th Avenues)

THE PLAYING SCHEDULE
MONDAYS at 8:00pm
(Monday, February 15th - Monday, May 31st)

TICKETS
www.SmartTix.com 212-868-4444 $20

"FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY"

LIFE IS TOUGH
AND THEN YOU CHANGE.

ABOUT Frank Blocker

Actor/Playwright Frank Blocker's plays include off-Broadway hit 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, Chameleüns (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: Monologues, Short Solo Plays and 10-Minute Plays. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and a member of Actors' Equity Association. Directing and choreography credits include Graceland, Joseph/Dreamcoat, Pamela Parker's Dreams of Martha Stewart and Lunacy. As an actor he will appear in two short films this year, The Rehearsal and The Anniversary, and can be seen in the online series Twilight with Steve Cooper as Jefferson Davis. Stage 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. Regional and touring credits including The Importance of Being Ernest, Greater Tuna, Veranda I and II, and Pamela Parker's Second Samuel. He frequently appears on the NYC stages in experimental works and readings, as well as with Peculiar Works Project, Forbidden Kiss, and Blakkapricorn Productions' Meditations on a Theme, to name a few. 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.

ABOUT HELENA GLEISSNER - Director

Helena Gleissner received her Masters of Arts in Theatre from Michigan State University, and her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Theatre from Shorter College. NYC directing credits include Transplants; Tiny Plays, Working It Out and Dying is Easy for IBT (International Brain Transplants), Lobster Tales, Rumple Who, Burning Man, Pow'r in the Blood at 13th Street Rep, Charles Borkhuis' Barely There for Boog City Poets Festival and scenes for Peculiar Works Projects' East Village Fragments. Helena has assistant directed for Jason Dezunski at PetroLabs and Ciaran O'Reilly at the Irish Rep Theatre including the Drama Desk-nominated production of The Hairy Ape.

ABOUT CHERYL KING - Co-Producer

Cheryl King Productions has produced several acting retreats, more than 300 showcases, and several festivals including the Left Out Festival of gay performance art benefitting Bailey House and Gay Men's Health Crisis and the Women At Work Festival which contributes funds to Friends of Niger, the Young Girls Scholarship Fund. Cheryl King was named a 2008 "Person of the Year" by nytheatre.com. Ms. King has also curated solo shows for the Estrogenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source since 2005 since 2005.

ABOUT E-MERGING WRITERS - Co-Producer

E-MergingWriters is a collective of theatre artists seeking to promote playwrights and new works. Artists include playwrights, writers, composers, directors, producers and actors. Founded in 1994.

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