Krysta Gonzales

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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

Gonzales 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

Gonzales 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

Writing

Plays

  • Robin Hood: An Elegy[1]
  • Más Cara[4]
  • When You KnoW, You KnoW[5]

Acting

Film

  • 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

  • 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

References

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