John J. Ronan is a poet, playwright, movie producer, and professor. He has received national honors for his poetry and was named a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 1999-2000. From 2008 to 2010 he served as Poet Laureate for the city of Gloucester, MA., and in 2009 published a new book of poems, Marrowbone Lane. (On John's regard for Gloucester, see his op-ed pieces from the Boston Herald.) His comedy, The Yeats Game, ran at the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in 2008. Under the direction of Kathy Richter, the comedy had its New York premiere February 29, 2012 at The Producer's Club, 358 W. 44th St. [The Yeats Game review.]
Ronan's new comedy, The Apple Trap: A Comic Parable in Two Acts, which had an initial reading at Blackburn Performing Arts in 2008, goes into production in late 2012. John is also the founder of American Storyboard, a media production company.
Ronan is also a teacher of film, an award-winning children's author, and host of a TV talk show. In 2002 he published a humorous e-book on the trials of turning 50 years of age. Ronan lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sandy, and memories of their adopted Wyoming dog, Cowboy.
[The W. B. Yeats caricature first appeared in the May 26, 1977, The New York Review of Books. Image courtesy David Levine Estate. For a limited edition print of this image and other works by David Levine, go to davidlevineart.com.] |
