Originally hailing from Baltimore, Ericka Ratcliff has performed regionally and locally in A Red Line Runs Through It and We Are All In This Room Together (Second City); Marie Antoinette (Steppenwolf Theatre); You Can't Take It With You (Northlight Theatre); Court Martial at Fort Devens (Victory Gardens Theatre); Sketchbook (Collaboraction); Ruined (Mixed Blood); A Raisin in the Sun (Milwaukee Rep); Seven Guitars (Pittsburgh Playwrights); Funk It Up About Nothin, Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Stickfly, African Company Presents Richard III, Talented Tenth, The Colored Museum, 365 Plays/365 Days, and Bulrusher (Congo Square Theatre); The Nutcracker, Rose & The Rime (The House Theatre of Chicago); Black Diamond: The Year the Locusts Have Eaten, Around the World in 80 Days, Peter Pan A Play, as well as assistant directing and dramaturge for Thaddeus & Slocum (Lookingglass Theatre). Ericka was a director and movement teacher for three summers with Northwestern University's High School Institute. She is an ensemble member with The House Theatre of Chicago and Congo Square Theatre, as well as an artistic associate with Lookingglass Theatre. She is a graduate of Roosevelt University.
