Biography
Radha Blank is an American writer, director, producer and actress. She wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2020 feature film The Forty-Year-Old Version, in which she plays a struggling playwright who turns to rapping.
Blank began her career as a playwright. Her Off-Broadway play Seed received critical acclaim, and she has received a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and an NEA New Play Development Award. She has also written episodes of the television series Empire (2015), She's Gotta Have It (2017) and The Get Down, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Monster (2021). She performs as a comedian and rapper under the name RadhaMUSprime.
For The Forty-Year-Old Version, Blank won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay. She was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Screenwriters and Directors Labs.
