RO REDDICK
Playwright | Songwriter | Educator
MFA Playwriting, Brown University ‘24
Ro Reddick (she/her) is a queer Black playwright, songwriter, and educator. She is a third year MFA Playwriting candidate at Brown University where she is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow.
Ro writes off-kilter, dark comedies, the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. They include: Throwback Island (O’ Neill Finalist), Cold War Choir Practice (Writing is Live/Brown University), ROBAMA (O’ Neill Semifinalist), Miss Black Syracuse (The Duplex), and The History of Black People Making White People Better People (co-writer Daryl Lathon). She is currently developing an untitled corporate satire about a bunch of dykes in the luxury notebook industry.
Readings + Development Labs: The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), Bushwick Starr Reading Series, and Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading).
Fellowships, Residencies + Grants: Venturous Fellowship Nomination, Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing, La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat, Miranda Theatre Company Playwright Grant.
Performance + Songwriting: 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 in several development workshops of new musicals, and co-wrote and performed songs for a country, rock, and blues band. She also creates original songs for her own plays and is a member of the Brown Arts Institute Songwriting Workshop.
Ro has a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).