Radha Blank is a playwright, director, producer, and actress born and raised in New York City. Her plays include HappyFlowerNail, Casket Sharp, nannyland and SEED. Blank produced two seasons of the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, an adaptation of Spike Lee’s 1989 film, and she also wrote for the popular TV series Empire and The Get Down. In 2020, Radha Blank won the directing award at Sundance for her semi-autobiographical feature film The 40-Year-Old Version, which premiered on Netflix.
Radha Blank
New York, New York
Films
The Forty-Year-Old Version
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(2020)
Radha is a down-on-her-luck New York playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of hip-hop and theater to find her true voice.
