Radha Blank

Radha Blank began her career with her one-woman Hip-Hop b-ball ‘dramedy' Kenya (Dixon Place, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Public Theater’s New Works Now, HERE; awards: New Professional Theatre's Annual Writers Award for Best Script, The NY Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship and Nickelodeon's Writers Fellowship). Radha later wrote for Nickelodeon shows The Backyardigans and Little Bill, debuted her original animated short, Papa Moco Jumbie and wrote a pilot for TeenNick based on her life as a young comic in NYC called My Life Is A Joke. Radha returned to theater with seed, which was developed through Classical Theater of Harlem’s Future Projects initiative and will be presented in conjunction with The NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival in 2010. seed garnered Radha membership into the Public Theaters Inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2008) where she developed the satire nannyland. Her latest project is Happy.Flower.Nail, a solo show that explores gentrification through the women who inhabit a Bed-Stuy nail salon. Happy.Flower.Nail was developed at Voice & Vision’s Envision Retreat at Bard and most recently performed at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Radha was also recently nominated for the Wendy Wasserstein prize in playwriting. Seeing writing as a path to self-discovery and self-empowerment, Radha has instructed NYC youth in poetry and playwriting for over fifteen years. She finds inspiration in both the rhythm of youth culture and the pulse of social justice issues facing urban American communities of color.

Shows participated in:
Reverb (2009 - 10) Playwright