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Theatre CV

Welcome to the adventure!

Beks Tryth Roen (they/he) is a professional sword-wielding chaos goblin: an actor, writer, martial artist, and musician with a passion for using stories to reveal the everyday magic of joy and remind people they're not alone. Beks is dedicating their life to reshape who gets to speak and fight for themselves on stage, screen and page. They’ve spent their career highlighting queer joy, stage combat awesomeness, and Shakespeare fun across the Midwest.

Formerly Beks Tryth Freeman.

Input | Learner | Communication | Woo | Responsibility

Transmasc actor in blue polo, with off-white baseball cap on backwards

My Debut Novel Is Out Now!

Four soldiers realize the war they’ve been fighting is a lie…an aliens don’t actually exist.

Follow Jacket, Badge, Ace and Arrow on their journey to revolution in Desert Phoenixes, out in ebook now! (link gives you a PDF and EPUB file)

I’ll be hand-making print books to order, so stay tuned for when those open!

Want to hear the audio? I’ll be doing FREE read-along Story Hours to let you in on the process of recording the audiobook! Follow my newsletter to know when the first chapters will be read aloud!

Buy the Ebook here!

Melodie Yvonne, photographer

“[Roen’s] fight scenes are PHENOMENAL!”

Beks Roen in a sword fight during Shakespeare in Love

Zhong Wang, actor

“Working with [Beks] in Shakespeare in Love was one of the best theatre experiences I’ve ever had.”