Cris Eli Blak’s work has been produced and performed around the world. He was a staff writer on the hit series Power Book III: Raising Kanan. He is the inaugural winner of the Black Broadway Men Playwriting Initiative, the 2024 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, and the Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s inaugural winner of the Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwriting Festival. He is currently the recipient of the inaugural Pages in Paris residency at Le Studio d’Art in France, 2025-26 Signpost Fellowship, 2024-2027 Core Writer with The Playwrights Center; and is a writer-in-residence at the 2026 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and the 2026 Orchard Project, and the inaugural LDK Productions Writers’ Residency.