Hallie Riddick
Theater Artist & Songwriter
GET HOME l.p. is out!
GET HOME l.p. was released on October 22nd, 2021 and you can listen on all streaming platforms!
This is the first release from the duo, Raising Daughters featuring Josette Axne and Hallie Riddick. For more info click here.
Flush
Hallie was thrilled to return to her alma mater, Sarah Lawrence, as a guest artist and writer/composer this past fall. FLUSH, her original play with music, was be directed by SLC second-year graduate student, Amanda Card. Click here for the full program.
FLUSH is a play with music that centers on the lives of four girls who escape to the woods to rid themselves of grief through spells and prayer. Flush gives the performers and the audience the opportunity to come together and face the horrors of girlhood. In attempting to create magic, rituals, and spiritual practice, the girls of the water stream wrestle to conjure their own agency. Through song and magic, we see them turning back to the oppressor and flipping them off. In their alcove of the grossest and darkest place of the woods, they harness the power of their environment and, specifically, the water, to fight for their liberation. The use of violence does not release them from their grief or their traumatic ties to men, but in their struggle we see the possibility of freedom. Song and ritual are their resistance and with this, Flush is attempting to heal.
Production History:
Sarah Lawrence College, (Bronxville, NY), fall 2020
Directed by Amanda Card
Music direction by Meaghan Bonds
Sound Engineering by SD
Cast: Saffron Quinn, Audrey Stathakis, Allegra Dubus-Brandolini, Annie Porter
Sarah Lawrence College, (Bronxville, NY), spring 2020 (reading)
Directed by Hallie Riddick
Music direction by SD and Meaghan Bonds
Cast: Tyandria Jabber, Rachel Mikita, Maddie Aldecoa, Maria Schreiner
National Theater Institute, (Waterford, CT), fall 2019 (Reading)
Directed by Emily Blanquera
Music direction by John-Alex Warner
Cast: Emmalee Allen, Cherokee Rose, Megan Hammerer, Josette Axne
Rhoda’s Big Day!
Rhoda’s Big day (click here to watch), a spec script for the series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was the product of a year-long research project done in conjunction with my U.S Women’s History course. I knew we couldn’t do the reading in person. However, this was the culminating project of my college career and so my collaborators and I decided to take it online. During the past two semesters, I studied the series and with the guidance of my professor, Lyde Sizer, took a close look at the surrounding social and political context of 1970's America. Specifically, I focused on the Women's Liberation Movement and quickly became interested in the representation of female friendship between Rhoda and Mary on the show. Mary, the main character, and her best friend, Rhoda, are always supporting one another throughout every episode. However, while extremely loyal, they also struggle with sexist standards and internalized misogyny. Their friendship seems to straddle Second-Wave Feminism and conservative America. Mainly, their friendship is tested by romantic competition; the show often sets up a narrative where Mary gets the guy, and Rhoda is left alone, and rarely are the friends ever honest about their insecurities or jealousies with one another. I decided I wanted to write an episode where Rhoda and Mary come clean. I wanted to switch up the usual pattern by having Rhoda get the guy, seeing how Mary might react, and show her reaction honestly. The episode, Rhoda's Big Day, was written in response to the competition that runs underneath many female friendships and strives to find pathways for more open and honest conversation.
Rhoda’s Big Day, zoom reading
Written and directed by Hallie Riddick
Cast: Ema Zivkovic, Griffin Shute, Hallie Riddick, Katy Greskovich, Claire Marieb, and Leyton Cassidy