Jessica Blank

She has also appeared on "Blue Bloods", "Elementary", "The Following", "The Mentalist", HBO's "High Maintenance", "Bored to Death", "Rescue Me", "Law and Order: Criminal Intent", "The Bronx Is Burning", and several other shows.

In film, she has appeared in The Namesake, Slender Man, The Exonerated, and You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You, and over a dozen indies including "Creative Control" (Grand Jury Prize, SXSW 2015) and "On the Road With Judas" (Sundance).

[4] It was adapted as a movie for Court TV starring Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, and Susan Sarandon.

[5] The play has been produced internationally in Dublin,[6] Edinburgh,[7] and London, in the United Kingdom;[8] and in Japan, Mexico, France, China, Thailand, Iran, and Italy.

Blank directed Aftermath off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop; it was nominated for Drama League Awards and toured internationally for two years.

[10] They are at work on a new documentary play, under commission from the Public Theater, in collaboration with the Grammy Award-winning musician Steve Earle entitled Coal Country at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.

Blank is also a coach for professional writers, a professor at Juilliard School, and a consultant and frequent speaker on story, neuroscience and social change.