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Roguish Goblin Stories

Find chosen family through queer fantasy and Shakespeare.

Live theatre + on-demand streaming

You’re loved. You’re not alone.

When you subscribe to Roguish Goblin Stories, you step into a world where you see yourself on stage, page and screen, and know you’re gonna be okay.

Join RGS to access exclusive queer theatre, original trans and aspec stories, and a streaming library built by and for us.

Pricing

Standard Subscription

What you get:

  • Free ebooks and audiobooks of my poetry, plays and fiction

  • Behind the scenes videos

  • All Drafting Adventures: see how my scripts and books evolve!

  • All show recordings

Premium Subscription

Standard PLUS:

  • FREE access to courses

  • Early access to live streams

  • BONUS Behind the scenes

  • In-depth sneak peeks of upcoming projects

VIP Community

Tiers include:

  • Reserved seats at live shows

  • Exclusive thank-you package

  • Exclusive Q&As

  • Open rehearsals

  • Preshow dinners

  • Name an Easter Egg!

  • "Really helpful. And I have a lot to learn!"

    -RGS follower

  • "Beks has a love of language and problem solving...a great grasp on theatre. Their greatest quality: honestly there to help: not to drive home a point, not prop themselves up, not to take someone down. To help. Approaching with a good intention and a great attitude."

    -Chris Smith, playwright

  • "Are you a fan of inclusive fantasy and Shakespeare stories? Then you should definitely get a subscription to Roguish Goblin Stories!"

    —RGS Subscriber

  • "Adventurous connection is a PERFECT description!"

    -RGS follower

  • "Beks Roen is a Shakespearean actor and a great writer of sci-fi and fantasy works. I’ve have had the pleasure working with him and it has been great to read all of plays he has written."

    —RGS Subscriber

"Because of you, I know I'm gonna be okay."

Why I started a queer theatre streaming platform

I had a student come up to me--- first day we met--- and say "Because I see you, I know I'm gonna be okay."

I'd just walked into their English class with my teaching partner, passed out laminated scripts and raggedy costumes, and challenged a roomful of sleepy high schoolers to play the witches in Macbeth at 7AM.

I had my pronoun pin on, and they'd noticed.

In that hallway, I looked them in the eye and said, "You are why I'm an actor, producer, writer and teacher."

Because I don't just build stories.

I build chosen family around healing stories that remind people they're loved and they're not alone.

When you subscribe to Roguish Goblin Stories, you step into a world where you see yourself on stage, page and screen, and know you’re gonna be okay.

Join RGS to access exclusive queer theatre, original trans and aspec stories, and a streaming library built by and for us.

Beks Roen in costume holding earplugs

In RGS, you see the whole behind the scenes process. (picture featuring earplugs for the Romeo & Juliet brawl at Ohio Shakes: safety first!)

VIP Investors

Join the movement, leave a legacy.

Last year, a friend and fellow theatre artist told me:

“I wish we got to actually be full humans onstage. Like, I’ll take anything ace-coded, but it would be nice to be more than just the alien on the side.”

That stuck with me.

Because so many of us grew up loving dragons, magic, and epic worlds - but never saw ourselves in them.

Roguish Goblin Stories exists to change that.

Everyone who joins receives original queer, trans, and aspec-centered fantasy stories built by and for our community.

No erasure.

No coded, non-human side characters.

No waiting to be written in.

Just stories where we are the heroes.

When you become a VIP, you’re not just watching shows.

You’re helping fund and grow independent queer storytelling - and you’re getting exclusive content in return.

When you’re ready to see yourself in the story…