Acclaimed filmmaker, playwright, and performer Radha Clean has formally joined the roster at M88, the administration and manufacturing firm recognized for championing underrepresented voices in leisure.
Clean, who shook up the business along with her award-winning directorial debut The Forty-12 months-Outdated Model (2020), continues to carve her personal lane as a fearless, genre-bending storyteller. The semi-autobiographical movie—written, directed by, and starring Clean—premiered at Sundance to rave evaluations, incomes her the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award and Vanguard Award, and later securing a Netflix launch. The uncooked, black-and-white indie explores age, creativity, and id by means of the lens of a 40-year-old playwright turned rapper, a pointy critique of the theatre business and gentrified New York instructed with wit and coronary heart.
Past the display, Clean is an award-winning playwright. Her critically praised stage work Seed received a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and delves into Harlem life in the course of the crack epidemic—affirming her deep dedication to telling tales rooted in Black expertise and neighborhood.
TV audiences may recognise her writing from fashionable reveals like Empire (FOX) and She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix), the place her voice added nuance and edge to Black narratives in mainstream areas.
Her inventive attain doesn’t cease there. In 2021, Clean introduced her storytelling to The Met Costume Institute’s In America exhibit with We Good. Thx!—a placing set up that includes a 16-foot braided wig, paying homage to Black ladies’s invisible however important position in shaping American tradition.
As RadhaMUSPrime, her alter ego and hip-hop comedy persona, Clean brings sold-out, truth-telling performances from New York to Norway—persevering with a legacy of utilizing artwork as protest, reflection, and celebration.
Nonetheless represented by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves, Radha Clean’s new partnership with M88 marks a major step ahead in an already boundary-breaking profession. We’re watching intently as she continues to disrupt, problem, and encourage throughout mediums.