Miranda González
Miranda Gonzalez, born and raised in the city of Chicago, is a writer, director, producer and the Artistic Director for UrbanTheater Company (UTC) in Humboldt Park, In 2020 she was invited to record a TEDx talk “The Fear of Decolonization”. With a deep history in ensemble practice, she was a founding member of Teatro Luna and has devised and developed plays since 2000. Recently selected to participate in Disney’s Live Entertainment Imagineering 2024 Creative Intensive, Miranda was able to collaboratively present new storytelling concepts world-wide. Her last play Back In The Day: an 80’s House Music Dancesical had its World Premier at UrbanTheater Company in 2019. Her current play Mascogos, an Imaginistas cohort commission, will have its world premiere in October 2025 at The Latino Theater Company in the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Directing, writing, and script development credits include; Evolution of a Sonero by Flaco Navaja, Remote Learning Curve by Albany Park Theater Ensemble, Thank You for Coming. Take Care by Stacey Rose at Court Theatre, Ashes of Light by Marco Antonio Rodriguez, La Gringa by Carmen Rivera; Teatro Luna Productions S-E-X-Oh!, Lunaticas, Crossed, GL 2010, The North/South Plays a workshop at DCASE; F.O.P and Crime Scene Chicago with Collaboraction; and Melissa DuPrey’s Sushi-Frito at Free Street Theater. She is also an Executive Producer for the web series 50 Blind Dates with Melissa DuPrey and has written for web series Ruby's World Yo created by Marilyn Camacho. Recipient of the Leaders for a New Chicago Award, 3Arts Award and the International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50 Award.
FINA (Fee-nah) - The Musical: This is an ask for the development of a musical in a genre that the Latiné play cannon hasn't seen. The idea for this project came to me because of my experience as a survivor of narcissistic abuse and parallel parenting with my abuser. This musical will feel like a cross between Alfred Hitchcock/Agatha Christi and Octavia Butlers work. We begin in the dining area of an aristocratic Peruvian home of Guillermo Cervantes on the eve a political insurrection. On this night it is a dinner party with family members and artists. The family begs one of the artists to tell an after dinner story. He decides to comply and tell a story about a woman from the future, Fina. It's not till the end of the play that we realize the artist is a seer and is telling the story of Guillermo's granddaughter and his great grandchildren and aims to convince him NOT to overthrow the government. Guillermo Cervantes is a real character and the great great grandfather of my two children. He disappeared leaving his wife and children without any money and his grandchildren emigrating to different countries to find better opportunities. I'll be researching his life and connecting the fabric of how this horrible loss affected his family for generations resulting in rippling generational trauma. The musical will play with noir and contemporary design elements that create a weaving of time and evolution of song through an afro-peruvian lens. The audience will be left with a Musical thriller that has them questioning their own complicit behavior within their families and the US government. I will use this time to begin to develop songs and the script with my collaborators, Satya Chavez and Tony Bruno.
