About the Writer
Cris Eli Blak is an emerging proud Black playwright whose work has been performed around the world. He is currently a staff writer on the hit Starz seriesPower Book III: Raising Kananand an artist-in-residence with Abingdon Theatre Company and Liberation Theatre Company. He is the inaugural winner of the Black Broadway Men Playwriting Initiative and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company's inaugural winner of the Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwriting Festival, and the winner of the 2024 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award. He was a resident playwright with The State University of New York - Oswego, Fosters Theatrical Artists Residency, Paterson Performing Arts Development Council and La Lengua Teatro en Español/AlterTheater Ensemble; the recipient of the Michael Bradford Residency from Quick Silver Theatre Company; and was in the inaugural class of fellows for the Black Theatre Coalition, as well as the recipient of the inaugural Emerging Playwrights Fellowship from The Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre. His work has been by Smith & Kraus, Inc., YOUTHPlays, Applause Books, New World Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble, and in the Black Theatre Review.