2021 Speaker Details

Ronan founded Storefront Theatre of Indianapolis in 2016 and and has directed 1980 (Or Why I’m Voting For John Anderson by Patricia Cotter, PROWESS by Ike Holter and INFINITY by Hannah Moscovitch for the company. Ronan was co-artistic director of Chicago’s Signal Ensemble Theatre for fourteen years before moving to Indy in 2015. He directed most of Signal’s productions and wrote five of them. He is a three-time Joseph Jefferson Award nominee, an Illinois Arts Council Award recipient, and a Woodward/Newman Award finalist that has directed and/or written forty-plus shows in Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Birmingham and Indianapolis.