About Beks Roen
Beks Roen (they/he) helps queer folks and allies find adventurous connection & remember they're loved and not alone through queer theatre & Shakespeare.
After reading independently at 18 months old, accidentally becoming a professional Shakespeare actor within weeks of graduating high school, finding themself with funding to train in stage combat, and accidentally co-producing a virtual theatre festival during the pandemic shutdown, Roen realized that mayyybe engineering wasn’t the career right path...
They now write queerly classic adventures, celebrating trans and aspec possibilities and magic.
With stage combat training from Dueling Arts International, 3 world premieres (“On The Cusp,” Hudson Valley Shakespeare; Boy-ish, So Deck the Halls, Blanket Fort Theatre), 7 years of professional acting (Great Lakes Theater, Ohio Shakespeare, more), and over 14 international publications (Anodyne Magazine, COVID-19 Memorial, Phi Beta Kappa, more), Roen is dedicated to bringing stories of hope to audiences outside major theatre hubs.
After performing, teaching, training & producing across 10 states in 2025, Beks shifted their focus from acting to producing the theatre they want to see, paying artists $20+/hour without charging for tickets.
They run Roguish Goblin Stories, a queer theatre company & streaming platform where enbies and aspecs are the main characters. Roen intends to grow RGS into a streaming platform that supports multiple queer artists full-time, freeing them to focus on the art they were born to share.
Expertise:
Shakespeare
Trans/non-binary story arts (writing, theatre)
Aspec (asexual and/or aromantic) story arts
Stage combat
Community building
Roen’s portfolio is below. To hire or commission them, contact them at the general form.
Acting & Fight Direction
Beks Roen is a level 2 actor-combatant with Dueling Arts International. Their acting credits include Romeo & Juliet (Ohio Shakespeare), Macbeth, Hamlet (both Great Lakes Theatre), and Gender Play (Indy Shakes, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Their choreography credits include Clue (Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette), Mary Shelley Presents: Frankenstein, and Dead Man’s Cellphone (both Purdue Theatre).
Reels
Read My Writing
I share new poetry and essays on my Substack every week.
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My Books
“Unsought for twinkle of gender joy...”
Available in print, audio, ebook at most retailers except Amazon.
Ebook: $5.50 | Print: $12.99 | Audio: $2.63
Queerness, family, magic and Indiana weather combine in These Indiana Winters, Roen's debut chapbook.
Their imagination skips across Seussian animals, fantastical characters, and the struggles of being a queer pastor's kid in the Midwest. Roen's wit and wonder reveals a spark of magic hidden in the everyday.
Enby aroace poetry about gender, theatre, & dragons…
Available in ebook and print at most retailers except Amazon.
Ebook: $5.50 | Print: $11.99
Roen’s second poetry chapbook contains some of the struggles of a young non-binary person looking for (and trying to self-define) their place in the world.
Small moments of life are woven alongside these questions about gender and how 21st-century America reacts to gender diverse people. While the speaker is dealing with coming out and growing into themself, there is more to their life than just their gender.
Eva Alpenstone has been avoiding her grandmother’s dying wish.
But when people disappear in the forest behind her grandmother’s house, she and her best friend Gorbie must battle self-doubt, family secrets, and exploding angel statues to heal a mistake from generations past...
Fantasy, 3-4 actors, non-binary & aspec characters, adventure dramedy, friendship
World premiere: Blanket Fort Theatre
From pandemic lockdown to sparring demons to the edges of the solar system...
Available in print and ebook at your favorite retailers (except Amazon)
Ebook: $5.50 | Print: $10.95
Grappling with despair, transition, and self-determination, these plays range from wacky supernatural comedy to introspective drama.
Comedy, COVID-19, drama, open casting, small casts, centers non-binary performers, Zoom and in-person formats.
My Plays
Oberon’s a sore loser…
Available in print and ebook at your favorite retailers (except Amazon)
Ebook: $5.50 | Print: $12.95
Oberon tries to help a frat boy woo a lesbian during a college party, only to be flummoxed by Puck, the changeling child who’s run back to Titania, and the existence of aspec people…
Chaos ensues as Midsummer Night’s Dream crashes into a contemporary college campus.
Fantasy, 9-11 actors, non-binary & aspec characters, Shakespeare-adjacent
