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About
Hi! I’m a Los Angeles-based actor, playwright, voiceover artist, and narrator of Black American and Mexican American descent. I’m originally from Texas and my creative aspirations have taken me on a journey that had stops in New York, Nashville, Dublin, Capetown, Johannesburg, and São Paulo, before landing in sunny California.
My recent credits include Pixar’s Oscar-nominated “Elemental,” “Quarter Life Poetry” on FX, national ad campaigns for globally recognized brands, and my play “Más Cara” was the flagship production for the FuturX 2019 Theater Festival in Austin, co-produced by The Vortex & Teatro Vivo. I am a satellite member of The Vortex in Austin and a current member of Dan Froot & Company, which creates theater pieces, podcasts, and community gatherings that foster dialogue around hunger, race, the gun debate, and other pressing social issues.
I earned my BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing, trained with Lesly Kahn, Margie Haber, Felipe Figueroa, and Robin Dale Meyers, and I was a 3x Diversity Scholar at The Groundlings School.
I sometimes volunteer as a narrator for Learning Ally, a non-profit organization that provides educational resources for students who learn differently. I love large bodies of water, yoga, and gobbling vegan ice cream cookie sandwiches. Oh, and my pronouns are they/she, primarily.
Affiliations: SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Dramatists’ Guild.
ACTING PORTFOLIO.
VO Reels
Home Studio Specs: Neumann TLM 103, Apollo Solo, Audio-Technica ATH-M20X Headphones, Audacity, Source Connect Standard
Audiobooks
Magical realism meets family drama, primarily in English with some Spanish
Publisher’s Summary: In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny.
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Dual-narrator
Narrated as Nena, USA Today Bestseller
Publisher’s Summary: Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western.
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Earphones Award Winning, Multi-narrator - Narrated as Marisol (under pseudonym, Dani Muñoz)
Publisher’s Summary: Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year in this heartfelt family drama.
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A Witchy Latinx Romance, USA Today Bestseller
Publisher’s Summary: Legend goes that long ago a Flores woman offended the old gods, and their family was cursed as a result. Now, every woman born to the family has a touch of magic.
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WRITING PORTFOLIO
"A fantastical dissection of gender expectation and tradition."
— The Austin Chronicle, on Más Cara
Plays
Más Cara
A visceral text and movement conjuring of Latina archetypes and the women who embody them – past, present, and future.
2019 Production (World Premiere), dir. Rudy Ramirez
2016 Workshop, dir. Rudy Ramirez Produced by The VORTEX and Teatro Vivo
First Blood (working title)
A full-length vampire quinceañera comedy.
In development with previous support from Texas Performing Arts and FUSEBOX Festival
Infinite
A text and movement exploration of the endurance of Black Joy, developed in collaboration with Kendell Byrd, Rami Campbell, Mark Antony Howard, and Taneal Williams.
2022, Production (World Premiere), dir. Madeleine Dahm, Wallis Studio Ensemble’s Reckoning Short Play Festival, The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Kiki’s Coils
Kiki is devastated after being bullied because of her natural hair, but after a magical visit from the spirit world, Kiki’s hair comes to life as a sassy source of pride and protection.
In development as a puppet play
Emptied
A 5 minute digital choreo-play and meditation on love and relationships based on V, 9 of the Decameron Tales. Uses found object puppetry.
2020, Production (World Premiere), dir. Rudy Ramirez, Digital Production by Rudy Ramirez & Melissa Vogt in response to the COVID19 Quarantines
When You Know, You Know
Flor and Stephen find themselves on a drive that will take them through the last two years of their relationship together.
2018 Production (World Premiere), dir. Daren Taylor Produced as a radio play by Distilled Theatre Company
Robin Hood: An Elegy
A Black Robin Hood magically transcends space and time experiencing the repeated cycles of state-sanctioned racism.
2015 Production (World Premier), dir. kt shorb Commissioned by The Generic Ensemble Company
ScreenPlays
Kiki’s Coils
Animated pilot. Kiki is devastated after being bullied because of her natural hair, but after a magical visit from the spirit world, Kiki’s hair comes to life as a sassy source of pride and protection.
(Ready to Read)
Mind/Body
A short webseries co-written with Josh Shayne about a millenial woman trying to find balance in her life through trying a variety of health and wellness fads.
(Pre-Production)
CONTACT
Commercial
Direct Contact
For theatrical, stage, writing, and other inquiries:
hello [at] krystagonzales [dot] com