Ireon Roach

Biography

A Chicago-bred writer and performer currently pursuing her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. Her writing has appeared in Hoochie Feminist Mag with plays in BU’s ‘20-’21 season and ReGround Theatre Festival in Boston. Ire will soon be published in Lindsay Clowes and Nadia Sanger’s collection Living African Feminist Theory (2021) on afrocentrism and performance.

She was last seen in SCHOOL GIRLS; or the African Mean Girls Play (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and Laughs in Spanish (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Film/television credits include Chicago P.D., Jennifer Reeder’s ‘Knives and Skin’ (2019) and Nia DaCosta’s ‘Candyman’ (2020).