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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Presents a staged reading of: HAPPY FLOWER NAIL
"weaves a whip-smart, emotional, and timely tale about gentrification and cultural
identity." -Wall Street Journal
Business is bad for Mrs. Sung. A rival nail salon just opened up down the street.
Her best manicurist is nowhere to be found. And her most loyal customer is facing
eviction. In a Koreanowned nail salon in the heart of BedStuy, Brooklyn, the lives
of five distinct women intersect in this timely soloperformance play that explores
loss, survival, gentrification and the American Dream.
Radha Blank is the author of nine plays. She is a 2013 Sundance Institute UCROSS Playwright, a 2011 Helen Merrill Award recipient, a 2011 NEA New Play Development Award recipient (for SEED), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Nickelodeon Writing Fellow and a member of The Public Theater's inaugural Emerging Writers Group. Radha's plays have been developed and/or presented by The Public Theater, The New Group, Luna Stage, Penumbra Theater, Arena Stage, Classical Theater of Harlem, The City Parks Foundation, Dixon Place, Here, The Lark, Voice and Vision, Hedgebrook, Tofte Lake Center, The New Black Fest and several seasons of The NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival. She has written for Nickelodeon and has written several screenplays, including FOH, Winner, Best Screenplay at The 2013 BlackStar Film Festival. When not writing plays, she performs as emcee RadhaMUSprime. Radha currently works as a staff writer for The Get Down, a new Baz Lurhman/Shawn Ryan series for Netflix about two teens and the beginnings of Hip Hop in New York, 1977.
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LocationThe Sherry Theater (View)
11052 Magnolia Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
United States
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