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Born and raised in New York City, Blank is known for writing, directing, producing, and starring in The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020), for which she won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival making Radha, after Ava DuVernay, only the second Black Woman Director in Sundance’s 40 year history to win the award.
Producer: The Forty-Year-Old Version. Radha Blank is a proud Native New Yorker, Performer and Writer for TV, stage and film. Her plays include HappyFlowerNail, Casket Sharp, nannyland and the critically acclaimed SEED which The Huffington Post called "fresh, lively...and poetic".
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- Producer, Writer, Actress
- New York City, New York, USA
- Radha Blank
September 24, 1973 · New York City, New York, USA. Birth name. Radha Bernetta Blank. Mini Bio. Radha Blank is a proud Native New Yorker, Performer and Writer for TV, stage and film. Her plays include HappyFlowerNail, Casket Sharp, nannyland and the critically acclaimed SEED which The Huffington Post called "fresh, lively...and poetic".
- September 24, 1973
Oct 12, 2020 · Radha Blank On Creating A Fresh Character At Forty | The Forty-Year-Old-Version | Netflix. Writer-director-star Radha Blank breaks down bringing her character to life in The...
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Oct 8, 2020 · Blank wrote the movie. She also directed it. She stars, too, playing a character named Radha, a struggling New York playwright who passed her next-big-thing sell-by-date a decade ago. But the...
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Oct 4, 2020 · After years of struggling on Broadway, the writer, actor and director takes aim at New York’s theatre establishment in her hit film The Forty-Year-Old Version. Sun 4 Oct 2020 05.00 EDT.
Jan 26, 2021 · By Akiva Gottlieb. Jan. 26, 2021 6 AM PT. The road to Radha Blank’s intimate and hilariously autobiographical debut film, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” began with her losing her first...
