Stabilized Not Controlled

Character actor and playwright Frank Blocker premieres his long-running edgy solo comedy to Los Angeles audiences in the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Directed by Jeffrey Edward Peters, STABILIZED NOT CONTROLLED pays homage to the Big Apple in this story of an evil landlord fighting his rent-stabilized tenants for control of a 5-floor walk-up. Developed at New York’s Stage Left Studio, the play uses dialogue and conversations lifted from subway conversations, corporate hallways, and the city streets to create a fictional story that happens in almost every rent-stabilized apartment in New York.
STABILIZED enjoyed a 10-month run in 2012 courtesy of Cheryl King Productions and E-Merging Writers. Blocker worked with movement specialists and vocal coaches Kathy Kelly Christos and Amy Jones to develop a rich set of truly New York characters such as aging and recovering sex addi...