Ron Himes has appeared in The Black Rep’s productions of Ain”t Misbehavin, On Golden Pond, Romeo and Juliet, Death and the King’s Horseman, Boesman and Lena and Gem of the Ocean, which was featured at the 2007 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Additional credits include King in King Hedley II, Banquo in Macbeth, Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil, for which he won the Woodie Award for Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role, and Blind Jordan in Sty of the Blind Pig. He created the role of Joe Lee in Conversations On A Dirt Road, Booster in Jitney, Malcolm X in The Meeting and When The Chickens Come Home to Roost, His acting credits in other St. Louis theatres include The Permanent Collection and The Exonerated at HotCity, The Little Foxes and Miss Evers’ Boys at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and several productions with Theatre Project Company and the General in The MUNY’s production of Guys and Dolls. He has appeared as Clarence Thomas in Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill/Thomas Hearings at 7 Stages in Atlanta and in The Black Rep’s production of The Meeting at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

