Rebecca J. Ritzel is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer who
regularly contributes to The Washington Post's Style, Weekend and
Travel sections. Most frequently, she writes about music and dance. Her
reporting specialties include arts and entertainment, religion, higher
education and equestrian sports.
In
addition to the Post, Rebecca has written for more than a dozen
newspapers, magazines and Web sites. Newspapers that have featured her
work include the Austin American-Statesman, the Intelligencer Journal,
the Missoulian, the News & Observer, the Post-Gazette, The Post
Standard, The Oregonian and the Whitehorse Daily Star.
In 2009, Rebecca taught literary journalism in the creative writing MFA program at American University.
Rebecca
earned her undergraduate degree in English from Cedarville College,
where she picked up minors in creative writing, religion and
philosophy. She also holds a master's degree in arts journalism from
Syracuse University, where she studied dance, drama, fiction and
musicology.
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Between degrees, she spent five years as a staff writer for the Intelligencer Journal, a 49,000 circulation, six-day morning newspaper. (It merged an evening paper, the New Era, in 2009) As a reporter for the Intell, Rebecca interviewed many performing arts personalities, including singer/songwriter Josh Rouse, the late playwright August Wilson and the composer Philip Glass.
She has been an active member of the American Theatre Critics Association, the Dance Critics Association and the Music Critics Association of North America. In 2007, she received a theater journalism fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2009, she was chosen to participate in a Welsh/American critics exchange organized by Visiting Arts, a cultural offshoot of the British government.
Rebecca is originally from Baltimore. She enjoys horseback riding in Rock Creek Park, running along the Potomac River and kayaking on the Chesapeake Bay.
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