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Krysta Gonzales is an Afro-Latinx playwright and actress based in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her 2015 play, Robin Hood: An Elegy. [1] [2]
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Krysta Gonzales is an Afro-Latinx playwright and actress based in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her 2015 play, Robin Hood: An Elegy. [1] [2]
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.
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]
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