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playwright | songwriter |educator

Ro Reddick Ro Reddick is a queer Black playwright, songwriter, and educator. She writes off-kilter comedies, 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 Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, and MCC. 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 Repertory Company (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).

Ro is the 2025 - 2026 recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Vineyard Theatre where she is an artist-in-residence. Additional awards include: the John Gassner Award for New American Play ‘26 and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play ‘26; Nominations include: Drama Desk nods for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Music in a Play ‘26, Lucille Lortel, Drama League, and Dorian Theater Award nods for Outstanding Play.

Ro is an Audrey Resident at New Georges and 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), Bushwick Starr Reading Series, Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading, dir. Jamario Stills), Clubbed Thumb, Page 73, and Trinity Rep. Ro has an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University.

She teaches playwriting at Barnard College.

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