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.  In 2008 he was named Poet Laureate for the city of Gloucester, MA.  (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.  (Read a review!)  And  it had a formal reading at the Abingdon Theatre in New York on June 25, 2009, featuring Broadway star Peter Reznikoff and directed by Kathy Richter.  Ronan's new comedy, 10,000 Years Later: A Parable in Two Acts, which had a reading at Blackburn Performing Arts in 2008, goes into production in late 2009. John  is also the founder of American Storyboard, a documentary production company, which recently premiered a new movie which deals with gender equality and sports, Women in American Horse Racing.  

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.

Ronan lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sandy, and their adopted Wyoming dog, Cowboy.

NEWS:  The distinguished print artist Coco Berkman has a striking show hanging through June, 2009, in the Matz Gallery at Sawyer Free Library, in Gloucester.  Ms. Berkman's bold, insightful work is paralleled with some of Mr. Ronan's poetry, in a successful combination of the two art forms. Read more on Coco Berkman!