Plays written by Ro Reddick:
COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE
THROWBACK ISLAND
Synopses:
Cold War Choir Practice – It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country – but rent is still due on the 1st. When a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, the unplanned (and unwelcomed) reunion sets long simmering political tensions within the family to boil – and throws each member into a bizarre maze of Reaganomics, Cold War espionage, capitalist cult predation, and… choir practice. Cold War Choir Practice is a darkly comedic thriller (with music!) – just in time for the holiday season.
Throwback Island – Six “sexy singles” go to a secluded island for nostalgia soaked good vibes, #truelove, and a chance to win a $100K. But when a strongman bachelor enters the villa there’s a lot more at stake than a pot of money… Throwback Island is a dark and eerie satire that explores homegrown, all-American fascism through a bonkers reality dating show.
Bio:
Ro Reddick is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares.
Upcoming: Cold War Choir Practice, (dir. Knud Adams), Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2025, co-produced by Page 73.
Ro is a member of the Page 73 Writers Group, a ‘24-’25 DGF Playwriting Fellow, and a Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice. She is also under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their new 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).
Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination 2025 (Cold War Choir Practice), Venturous Fellowship Nomination (Throwback Island), Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, 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.
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 and co-written songs for a country, rock, and blues band. She also writes original songs for her plays and is an alum of the BAI Songwriting Workshop. In addition to her MFA in Playwriting from Brown, Ro has an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).