Ro Reddick (she/her) is a queer Black playwright, songwriter, and educator. She is a third year MFA Playwright at Brown University. Ro writes off-kilter, dark comedies, the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares.

Plays: Throwback Island (O’ Neill Finalist), Unlined Hardcover Lay Flat (O' Neill Finalist), Cold War Choir Practice (Writing is Live/Brown University), ROBAMA, Miss Black Syracuse, and The History of Black People Making White People Better People (co-writer Daryl Lathon). She is currently developing a riff on Nabakov's Pale Fire.

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 at Brown, 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).