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]
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]
