Ro Reddick

Ro Reddick is a queer Black playwright, songwriter and educator. She writes off-kilter comedies and the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Her play Cold War Choir Practice won the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was produced off-Broadway in a co-production with MCC, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73. The play originally premiered in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2025 (NYT Critic’s Pick, dir. Knud Adams). Cold War Choir Practice was also produced in September 2025 at Trinity Rep (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).

Ro is the 2025 to 2026 recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Vineyard Theatre, where she is an artist-in-residence. Additional awards include the 2026 John Gassner Award for New American Play and the 2026 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play; nominations include: 2026 Drama Desk nods for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Music in a Play as well as Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Dorian Theater Award nods for Outstanding Play.

Ro is a member of LCT’s Helen Gurley Brown Fellowship for Writers and TFANA’s Living Shakespeare Lab as well as an Audrey Resident at New Georges. She is an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group, the PWC Core Apprentice Program, the DGF Playwriting Fellowship and People’s Light QPA. Her plays have been developed by The Vineyard Theatre, The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading, dir. Jamario Stills) and People’s Light. Ro has an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University where she studied under Julia Jarcho.

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