Rebecca J. Ritzel is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer who regularly covers music and dance coverage to The Washington Post. Her reporting specialties include arts and entertainment, religion, higher education and equestrian sports.
In addition to the Post, she has written for more than a dozen other newspapers, magazines and Web sites. Newspapers that have featured her work include The Washington Post, the Austin American-Statesman, the Intelligencer Journal, the News & Observer, the Post-Gazette, The Post Standard, The Oregonian and the Whitehorse Daily Star.
She has also 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.
Between degrees, she spent five years as a staff writer for the Intelligencer Journal, a 49,000 circulation, six-day morning newspaper. 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.
Since 2004, she has been an active member of the American Theatre 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 will participate in a Welsh/American critics exchange organized by Visiting Arts, an offshoot of the British cultural ministry.
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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