Background
Blank grew up in New Haven and Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota.
Blank grew up in New Haven and Washington, District of Columbia, and attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota.
She has appeared in several movies, including The Namesake, The Exonerated, and You"re Nobody "til Somebody Kills You, and the indies Undermind and On the Road With Judas (Sundance, 2007). She has worked in television, on The Bronx is Burning, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Maine, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and Bored to Death, in which she appears topless in a scene with Ted Danson. She appears in Columbia Broadcasting System" pilot "Made in Jersey".
Blank and Jensen co-wrote The Exonerated, a play based on interviews they conducted with more than 40 exonerated death row inmates.
In spring 2002, they co-directed The Exonerated at The Actors" Gang Theater. Bob Balaban"s production of The Exonerated ran for more than 600 performances off-Broadway.
Toured nationally. Was made into a movie for Court television starring Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, and Susan Sarandon.
And was produced internationally in Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Japan, Mexico, and Italy. The Exonerated has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.
Blank and Jensen also co-wrote the documentary play Aftermath based on interviews they conducted in 2008 with Iraqi civilian refugees in Jordan. Blank directed Aftermath off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop in 2009.
lieutenant was nominated for two Drama League awards and toured internationally for two years.
Blank"s novel, Almost Home, was published in October 2007 by Hyperion. Her second novel, "Karma Foreign Beginners," was published by Hyperion in 2009 and was optioned for television by Fox television Studios, to be produced by Avenue Pictures and adapted by Blank and Jensen. Her writing has also been published in magazines and journals including The Believer, The Dramatist, Another Magazine, and Theatre History Studies.
Living Justice, Blank and Jensen’s book on the making of The Exonerated, was published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster.
In 2015 she played the role of Heather Drake in the 16th episode of the 5th season of the Columbia Broadcasting System police procedural drama Blue Bloods on the episode "In The Box".