Play on Words: Conversation with the Poet ireon roach

Wednesday, MaY 8, 2024
5:30PM | BASKES ROTUNDA

Join us in conversation with Ireon Roach, a multidisciplinary artist and former winner of the August Wilson Monologue Competition. She will be sharing her experience creating a poem based on August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Gain insight into her creative process and learn more about her relationship with August Wilson’s work and her upcoming creative projects. Light refreshments will be provided, and we’ll raise a toast with wine provided by Doña Amalia.

Tickets are free; reservations are required.

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ABOUT thE POET

 

 

Ireon Roach is a Chicago-bred actor and writer excited to collaborate with Goodman Theater and the Poetry Foundation to offer a poetic companion to Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Chicago credits include cullud wattah (Victory Gardens Theater), Blood at the Root (Jackalope Theatre Company), and How We Got On (Haven Theatre Company). Other regional credits include School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (SpeakEasy Stage) and Laughs in Spanish (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Ireon has starred in the CW’s ‘4400’ and appeared in Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’, Jennifer Reeder’s ‘Perpetrator’ and Clare Cooney’s ‘Departing Seniors’ (2023).

About Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

A journey of self-discovery leads to salvation in this major revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s masterwork.

On the heels of Gem of the Ocean (2022), expert August Wilson interpreter Chuck Smith revives the second work in the famed American Century Cycle—one of Wilson’s best-loved, most compelling plays.