Blake Hackler
As an actor, he has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theaters across the country, and in film and television. He is currently a member of the Brierley Resident Acting Company at the Dallas Theater Center.
As a writer, his plays and adaptations have been produced nationwide. His adaptation of Hedda Gabler was praised by Terry Teachout in The Wall Street Journal as “deft… one of the best productions of this play I’ve ever seen.” His work has been nominated twice for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award and has been a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Lanford Wilson Prize, among others.
Blake serves as Chair of Theatre at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and is the Director of Yale University’s Summer Conservatory.
He is a member of the prestigious BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Program and a recipient of the Harrington Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and is a 2018 MacDowell Fellow and a 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.