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, 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 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 – 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 a member of LCT’s Helen Gurley Brown Fellowship for Writers and TFANA’s Living Shakespeare Lab, and 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), 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.