RO REDDICK

RO REDDICK (Author) is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Her play COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE (NYT Critic’s Pick, dir. Knud Adams), premiered in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2025, co-produced by Page 73. COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE was also produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).

Ro is a member of the Page 73 Writers Group and a ‘24-’25 DGF Playwriting Fellow. She is also under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their Queerways PA commissioning and residency program. Her plays have been developed with Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, Trinity Rep, The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), Bushwick Starr Reading Series, and Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading, dir. Jamario Stills). Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, Venturous Fellowship Nomination, Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing at Brown University, La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat, Miranda Theatre Company Playwright Grant, and 3x O’Neill Finalist. She is also an alum of the Brown BAI Songwriting Workshop and writes original songs for her plays.

In a past life, Ro performed in shows at the Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and KC Rep, and more; Off-Broadway in “SILENCE! THE MUSICAL,” and on screen in “THE AMERICANS,” “LOUIE,” and “SEX AND THE CITY 2.”

Ro holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown and an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).