Rebecca J. Ritzel is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer who has worked for a variety of newspapers, Web sites and magazines. Her reporting specialties include arts and entertainment, religion, higher education and equestrian sports.
Newspapers that have featured her work include The Washington Post, the Austin American-Statesman, the Intelligencer Journal; the Post Standard; The Oregonian and the Whitehorse Daily Star.
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 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.
Rebecca is originally from Baltimore. She enjoys eating crabs and kayaking on the Chesapeake Bay.
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