A visceral text and movement conjuring of Latina archetypes and the women who embody them – past, present, and future.

Playwright Krysta Gonzales is an actor/dancer/performance artist/writer originally from El Paso and Dallas. She earned her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing and is currently an active member of the Vortex Repertory Company and the Generic Ensemble Company (GenEnCo). She was most recently onstage as Dunia in Teatro Vivo’s production of El Nogalar and her first play, Robin Hood: An Elegy, a devised collaboration with GenEnCo, premiered at the Vortex in August 2015. 

Teatro Vivo presents the sixth annual Austin Latino New Play Festival (ALNPF) in collaboration with ScriptWorks February 25-27 at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. The festival includes three evenings and one afternoon of staged readings of new Latino plays. General admission tickets for the festival are a donation-based or “pay what you wish.” A $40 reserved seat festival pass is available for those attending all three days or reserved seats may be purchased for $15 for each play. Furthermore, Teatro Vivo is offering a limited number of complimentary “social media” seats at the back of the theatre for those interested in live tweeting and posting to social media during the festival. Visit teatrovivo.org for information.

ALNPF is a theatre event that brings playwrights and audience members together in conversation surrounding new workshop productions that bring insight into the Latino experience. After each reading, the playwright participates in a talkback sessions with the audience. New this year is the addition of two theatre for youth pieces to be shown the evening of Thursday Feb 25 and the afternoon of Saturday February 27, 2016. The productions have Latino roots and explore cross-cultural themes and modern dilemmas that surprise, challenge, engage, and push the dramatic envelope for audience members accustomed to one-way conversations at the theater.