Cold War Choir Practice by Ro Reddick, courtesy of Brown University, photo(s) by Erin X. Smithers; (center) Tay Bass, (back row L to R) Hayley Gasbarro, Lottie Doughty, Gillian Gordon,Marina Benson, Ellie Leibner.
GOINGS ON…
January 2025: Ro joins the Page 73 Writers Group.
December 2024: Clubbed Thumb & Page 73 hosted a workshop of Cold War Choir Practice.
October 2024: Ro was named a 2024-2025 DGF Playwriting Fellow.
October 2024: Trinity Rep hosted a workshop of Cold War Choir Practice.
September 2024: Ro was selected as a 2024-2025 Playwrights Center Core Apprentice.
September 2024: Cold War Choir Practice was nominated for the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
May 2024: Ro graduated from Brown’s MFA Playwriting program.
May 2024: Ro is under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their new Queerways PA commissioning and residency program.
April 2024: Unlined Hardcover Layflat was named a finalist for the O’Neill.
August 2023: Throwback Island was selected for a residency at The Ground Floor.
July 2023: Ro was a Playwriting Fellow in the Emerging LGBTQ Voices residency at Lambda Literary.
January 2023: Throwback Island was nominated for the Venturous Theater Fellowship.
April 2022: Throwback Island was a finalist for the O’ Neill.
March 2022: Throwback Island was part of the Bushwick Starr Reading Series.
about
Playwright | songwriter
Ro Reddick (she/her) is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Ro is a member of the 2025 Page 73 Writers Group, a ‘24-’25 DGF Playwriting Fellow, and ‘24-’25 Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice.
Her plays have been workshopped/developed/read with Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Trinity Rep, The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Clubbed Thumb x Brown MFA Showcase, and Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading).
Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, Venturous Fellowship Nomination, Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing at Brown University, La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat, Miranda Theatre Company Playwright Grant, 2x O’Neill Finalist.
As an actor, Ro has performed at theaters including Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and KC Rep; Off-Broadway in “Silence! The Musical”, and on screen in The Americans, Louie, and SATC 2. As a singer she has performed and co-written songs for a country, rock, and blues band. She also writes original songs for her plays and is an alum of the BAI Songwriting Workshop.
In addition to her MFA in Playwriting from Brown, Ro has an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).