Gracie Writings

How many Thinks were Thought during the process of this show? Too many to count- nobody could know.

Animals and Whos and every loved friend, every great show does eventually end.

Dearest folks in the Jungle of Nool and on Who, ‘til the next time we meet in Solla Sollew. 💛💚🩵

Seussical at Upright Theatre Company

Stage Manager

Young Frankenstein! Couldn’t have asked for a better cast & crew to do this wild, fun show with. ‘Til the next time 💚

Young Frankenstein

Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan

Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks

Stage Manager

Directed by Logan Gabriel Frederick

Another Midsummer Night’s Dream 🧚‍♀️

Stage Manager

Play by Liz Shipe

The Little Mermaid Jr. 🧜

Light Designer

Directed by Megan Guerra

Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. 

Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater

Music by Alan Menken

Book by Doug Wright

Ghost! 👻

I couldn’t ask for a better cast and crew to make my on-stage Upright debut with. Thank you to everyone from this process and everyone who came. 🩵

Ghost: the Musical 

Book & Lyrics by: Bruce Joel Rubin

Music & Lyrics by: Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard

Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin

Kurogo Ghost & Fight Captain

Directed by Sascha Connor

“With love’s light wings did I climb these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt.”

“Romeo & Juliet” by William Shakespeare

Stage Manager

Directed by Megan Guerra and Assistant Directed by Natalie Shaw at Upright Theatre Co.

📸: @delaney.rain.photo on Instagram

Let Your Freak Flag Fly! 🫏

So glad to have been part of this amazing show and to have met all the amazing people I did. 💚

Shrek: The Musical 

Book & Lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire

Music by Jeanine Tesori

Based on the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig

Light Designer/Board Operator

Directed by Natalie Burkhart at Upright Theatre Co.

Frozen Jr.

Book by Jennifer Lee, Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

Based on the Disney film written by Jennifer Lee and directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee

Scenic Designer

Little Women The Musical 

Book by Allan Knee, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, Music by Jason Howland

Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott

Light Designer/Light Board Operator

Directed by Jessica Holt

Special Thanks to Derek Cheung

So happy to have gotten to work on this most amazing show with these astonishing people! This may be my first show with the Hopeful Theatre Project, but it certainly won’t be the last. 

B.B.S. Theatre, Writing Minor May 2024 Summa Cum Laude

DirectFest 2024: “Fictionistas” by Mark Saunders

Directed & Primarily Designed by Gracie Ridings

Senior Showcase

Thank you to everyone who came and supported me and especially to those who helped make it happen!

📸: Jeff Ridings

Smoke on the Mountain- Scenic Designer

Directed by Dr. Stace Gaddy

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival

24 Hour Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Technical Director; Scenic Designer; Lighting Designer; Sound Designer

Artistic Directed by MacKenzie Corum

"Is there an ass in this learned company?"

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner.

Directed by the fabulous Lauren Railey.

Women and Wallace, by Jonathan Sherman

Set Designer & Student Technical Director

Directed By Danielle Broyles 

📸: Trey Spivey, Unknown, and Amber Cardenas