Ron Bobb-Semple: Still honing his craft

By Jairo Rodrigues

 

For the past 45 years Ron Bobb-Semple has been acting and promoting the arts on national and international stages. He is a shining light for all those who aspire to be dramatists. He lives for theatre and has spent most of his life working with some of the most influential actors in the region.

Ron lives by his own motto, “It takes a long time to be an overnight success,” and has had the opportunity over the years to work with some notable actors in the United States such as the late, great Ossie Davis; Esther Rolle (Good Times); and Avery Brooks (A Man Called Hawk). He acted in Nobel Prize Winner Derek Walcott’s play Steel at the American Repertory Theater,