Erik Jensen

Erik Jensen is an actor, writer and director. His TV acting credits include two

seasons of ABC's FOR LIFE, arcs on MINDHUNTER, THE WALKING DEAD, and MR.
ROBOT, and over 90 other film and TV credits including HOUSE OF CARDS,
MODERN LOVE, CHICAGO PD, THE BLACKLIST, THE AMERICANS, and NY Yankee
legend Thurman Munson in THE BRONX IS BURNING. Theater credits include Lincoln
Center's Pulitzer Prize-winning production of DISGRACED, THE GOOD NEGRO
(Public Theater), CORPUS CHRISTI and Y2K (MTC), SPAIN (MCC), and his solo
performance as iconic rock critic Lester Bangs in HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC (CTG,
South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf, ArtsEmerson, The Public), which he also co-wrote with
his wife Jessica Blank.
With Jessica, Erik also wrote the plays THE EXONERATED (Culture Project,
nat'l tour, over 500 productions worldwide), AFTERMATH (NYTW), THE LINE (The
Public) and COAL COUNTRY (with original music by Steve Earle; The Public, Cherry
Lane Theater/Audible). They have written and developed TV with Fox TV Studios, 20th
TV, Gaumont, Levinson/Fontana, Radical Media, and several more, and have current
TV projects in development with David Simon/Blown Deadline and with Ed Burns (THE
WIRE, GENERATION KILL). Their first scripted feature as writer/directors, ALMOST
HOME, was released by Vertical Entertainment in 2016, and they are currently
developing HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC for feature film. On the documentary side,
they are developing a feature with Meteor17 on legendary rock engineer Eddie Kramer
(Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones) and are in preproduction for a feature
about the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that draws on their play COAL COUNTRY
(prod. Audrey Rosenberg, EP Steve Earle). Erik lives in Brooklyn with Jessica and their
daughter Sadie.