Ro Reddick

2026 Winner

Cold War Choir Practice

Synopsis: In Cold War Choir Practice, a young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults… and choir practice.

Cold War Choir Practice (NYT Critic’s Pick, dir. Knud Adams), premiered in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2025, co-produced by Page 73. This production will be remounted at MCC Theater in a co-production with Clubbed Thumb and Page 73 in March 2026.  Cold War Choir Practice was also produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).

Cast Breakdown: 2M/7W

Set/Costume Requirements:. The play is set in 1987, so period appropriate costumes are required. There is no literal skating in the play, so no roller skates are needed. The set works best when it’s gestural or abstract rather than literal.

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Agent: Bonnie Davis, Bret Adams LTD / Britton Rizzio & Kristina Cuello, Curate Management

Bio: Ro Reddick is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies; the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Ro is the 2025 – 2026 recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and an artist-in-residence at the Vineyard Theatre. Her play Cold War Choir Practice (NYT Critic’s Pick, dir. Knud Adams), premiered in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2025, co-produced by Page 73. This production will be remounted at MCC Theater in a co-production with Clubbed Thumb and Page 73 in March 2026.  Cold War Choir Practice was also produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).Ro is an alum of the Page 73 Writers Group, the PWC Core Apprentice Program, and the DGF Playwriting Fellowship. She is under commission at People’s Light Theatre and 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, dir. Jamario Stills). Ro has an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University and an MBA from NYU, which she has no intention of using.