Miranda Gonzalez
Miranda Gonzalez (she/her), born and raised in the city of Chicago, is a writer, director, producer, facilitator, and organizational strategist with a Bachelor of Science from DePaul University and has co-created curricula addressing anti-Blackness in the Latiné community. Currently she is the Producing Artistic Director for UrbanTheater Company (UTC) in Chicago, she has curated and led numerous interdisciplinary projects that blend theater, music, dance, and oral history to tell the stories of Chicago’s history that mirror her identity and lived experience.
As a collective member of Culture Change Lab, she helps support arts organizations, funders, and lobbyists in reimagining collective structures through operational management. Concurrently, she serves on the National Latinx Theater Initiative Steering Committee advocating for the advancement of Latinx artists and organizations, influencing policy. In 2020, she was invited to record a TEDx talk titled The Fear of Decolonization. With a deeply rooted history in ensemble practice, she is a founding member of Teatro Luna and has produced, devised, and developed plays since 2000. Selected to participate in Disney’s Live Entertainment 2024 Creative Intensive, Miranda was able to collaboratively present new storytelling concepts worldwide. Her play Back In The Day: an Immersive 80’s House Music Dancesical had its World Premiere at UrbanTheater Company. Her most recent critically acclaimed play Mascogos, commissioned by the Los Angeles Latino Theater Company’s Imaginistas which discusses the history of the underground railroad to Mexico and had its world premiere in October 2025.
In the summer of 2025, she was a playwright in residence at the University of Chicago’s Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts, where she began developing her current play Fina (fee-nah) a time-bending afro-peruvian musical. Directing, writing, and script development credits include: Evolution of a Sonero by Flaco Navaja, Remote Learning Curve by Albany Park Theater Project, 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 Theatre Company; 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. She is a recipient of the Diane Rodriguez Teatrista Award, Leaders for a New Chicago Award, a 2022 3Arts/Walder Foundation Award, a participant of the International Centre for the Arts residency, and more!
Profile caption: Joel Maisonet
Mascogos: A Part of the Underground Railroad to Mexico
Featured Artworks
Back In The Day
Image by Kenny Cordero
NEIU Production of Anonymous
Directed by Miranda Gonzalez
Playwright Naomi Iizuka
La Gringa
Playwright Carmen Rivera
Image by Anthony Acardi
NEIU production of Anonymous
Directed by Miranda Gonzalez
Playwright Naomi Iizuka
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Back In The Day, 2019
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Remote Learning Curve, 2021