Krysta Gonzales is a Black American and Mexican American playwright and actress based in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her 2015 play, Robin Hood: An Elegy.[1][2]
Career
editGonzales identifies as Black and Latina[3] and cites political motivations for her work.[1] Gonzales received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts.[3] She has been interested in art promoting people of color since age thirteen.[1]
Gonzales was listed as one of the 50PP's Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays 2017 in the 50 Playwrights Project. The work was Más Cara,[4] which was a part of the Austin New Latino Play Festival in 2016 as a workshop reading.[3] Más Cara is about Mexicana stereotypical characters interacting with each other who become self-aware by traveling through time and planes of existence.[4]
She received media attention for her 2015 play, Robin Hood: An Elegy. Playing at Austin theater venue The Vortex, it centered on the Black Lives Matter movement through the lens of the classic myth of Robin Hood.[1] It uses some of the same methods of Más Cara, such as time travel,[2][4] but focuses more on Gonzales' Black roots than her Latina ones.
Gonzales' most recent play is a radio play produced by DTC Radio and released online in 2018,:[5] When You KnoW, You KnoW.
Recognition
editGonzales has been featured in articles in The Austin Chronicle for her work as a playwright[1][2][6] and actress.[7][8] These articles are primarily about the role of Afro-Latinx theater in the Austin arts scene. The articles that feature her are about the art that she is a part of, such as The Cucuy Project - a project that centers various Latinx artists such as Gonzales and uses puppetry,[6] Robin Hood: An Elegy,[2] Bright Half Life - Gonzales (actor)[7] and El Nogalar (actor).[8]
Works
editWriting
editPlays
editActing
editFilm
edit- Hindsight[9]
- Burn it to the Ground[9]
- Dry Spell[9]
- Violet Slumber[10]
- Searching for Newman[9]
- Octia of the Pink Ocean[10]
- Planet of the Mermaids[10]
Theater
edit- Club Friendship[9]
- It's Personal: Love[9]
- Bright Half Life[9]
- El Nogalar[9]
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot[9]
- Should've Never[9]
- Cold April[9]
- A Raisin in the Sun[9]
Voice work
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f Faires, Robert (August 7, 2015). "Musicals may rule the theatre come summer, but this week they have to yield some stage space to a pair of homegrown political plays that are as timely as theatre gets". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b c d Cobbe, Elizabeth (August 14, 2015). "The legendary outlaw of Sherwood Forest witnesses blacks suffering at the hands of modern law enforcement when he's transported out of his time in GenEnCo's timely new drama". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b c trevorboffone (2016-02-19). "Krysta Gonzales". Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b c d "50PP's Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays 2017". 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b "When You KnoW, You KnoW* by Krysta Gonzales - DTC Radio". Poddtoppen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b Schroeder-Arce, Roxanne. "The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b Weaver, Shanon (April 8, 2016). "Once you squeeze into the Vortex's tiny Pony Shed – which holds only 20 people – there's no escape from the story of Theatre en Bloc's relentlessly personal Bright Half Life". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b Roberts, Adam (June 19, 2015). "Teatro Vivo swaps cherries for pecans and Russia for Mexico in bilingual Chekhov reboot at the MACC". www.austinchronicle.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Resume". Krysta Gonzales. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ a b c "Krysta Gonzales". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- ^ Amaze Org, Why Don't I Like The Way I Look?, retrieved 2018-12-05
- ^ Amaze Org, Puberty in Girls: Boobs and More, retrieved 2018-12-05
- ^ "Elemental (2023) Voice Actors". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
- ^ "Krysta Gonzales as Bree's Disgust in Inside Out 2 (2024)". instagram.com. Retrieved July 16, 2024.