FEBRUARY 21 – MARCH 29, 2026
A Co-Production with MCC Theater and Clubbed Thumb
Newman Mills Theater at MCC Theater
511 W. 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
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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—underscored by the cryptic Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.
Back to the Roll-A-Rama
After our sold-out run in June 2025, we’re joining forces with MCC Theater and Clubbed Thumb to remount this "highly-entertaining... brainy new comedy" (NY Times, Critic's Pick).
About the Playwright:
RO REDDICK
Ro Reddick is a queer Black playwright and songwriter. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. 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. Cold War Choir Practice was also produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy).
Ro is a member of the Page 73 Writers Group and a ‘24-’25 DGF Playwriting Fellow. She is also under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their 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, dir. Jamario Stills). Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, Venturous Fellowship Nomination, Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice, 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. She is also an alum of the Brown BAI Songwriting Workshop and writes original songs for her plays.
In a past life, Ro performed in shows at the Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and KC Rep, and more; Off-Broadway in Silence! the Musical, and on screen in “The Americans,” “Louie,” and “Sex and the City 2.”
Ro holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown and an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).
About the Director:
KNUD ADAMS
Knud Adams is an Obie-winning director of artful new plays, based in New York City. He recently directed the acclaimed Broadway debut of Sanaz Toossi’s English, which Variety hailed as “one of the best plays of the decade.” He is the only director to have premiered consecutive Pulitzer Prize winners: English and Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust. Additional world premieres include: The Book of Mountains and Seas, I’m Revolting, Bodies They Ritual, The Headlands, Paris, Tin Cat Shoes, The Workshop, Asshole, and Tom & Eliza. Knud’s productions have been celebrated on "Best of the Year" lists by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, and Washington Post. Knud is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist.
Cold War Choir Practice is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council.