Radha Blank

otherwise known as 'WordBlaze'

<div style="border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 31pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0in;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: medium none; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;;">As a writer, Radha Blank is often inspired by social justice issues within underserved communities. Her plays include <i>American Schemes, Seed, HappyFlowerNail, Nannyland, Reverb</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;;"> and <i>Kenya</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;;">. Awards include New Professional Theatre's Writers Award, NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Nickelodeon's Writers Fellowship and a residency in the Public Theaters inaugural Emerging Writers Group. Her work has been developed and/or presented by The Classical Theater of Harlem, The City Parks Foundation, Dixon Place, The Public Theater, The Lark, Here, Voice and Vision’s Entreat Retreat as well as several seasons of The NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival. Her play seed just received National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Play Award and will be presented this fall in New York City. Seeing writing as a path to self-discovery and empowerment, Radha has instructed NYC youth in poetry and playwriting for over fifteen years. Her latest play, <i>Casket Sharp</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: &quot;Arial Narrow&quot;;">, explores gang rites and death rituals in a deprived town.</span></p> </div>

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