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 by MCC, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73. She’s the recipient of the 2025-2026 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award & Residency (Vineyard Theatre), the John Gassner Award for New American Play, and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play. 

She is a member of Lincoln Center’s Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab and TFANA’s Living Shakespeare Lab. She’s 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, Trinity Rep, and People’s Light. 

Ro is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College, where she teaches playwriting. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and an MBA from NYU that she has no intention of using.