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Storyteller, musician, poet, actor and Doctor of Arts David Gonzalez has created numerous productions
including the critically acclaimed shows ¡Sofrito! and MytholoJazz, both of which enjoyed sold-out runs
at Broadway's New Victory Theater. His work Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis, was commissioned by
the Smithsonian Institution's Discovery Theater and has toured nationally, including a run at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum. In 1998 he was honored with the Helen Hayes Performing Artist of the Year Award. David also wrote
The Secret of the Ceiba Tree, a community-based multi-media work in conjunction with Cleveland Playhouse Square
with the support of a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Arts Partners grant. With support from the National Endowment for the
Arts he wrote and starred in Finding North, a one-man play based on Underground Railroad hero John Parker which
premiered at Tony-award winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. The Frog Bride, a new work joining the music of
Prokofiev, the paintings of Kandinsky, and a glorious Russian fairy tale, developed with the support from the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art and the Theater Development Fund, premiered at the New Victory Theater in 2006. David
has recently completed Freedom's River, a libretto commissioned by the Cincinnati Opera for their 2007 season.
Mr. Gonzalez' poetry was featured at Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival in 2001, Bill Moyers' documentary
Fooling with Words on PBS, as well as NPR's All Things Considered. He was the host of New York Kids
on WNYC for eight seasons and is a commentator for Studio 360, on NPR. City of Dreams, a Latin-jazz/spoken-word project
featuring Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Sanabria, received excellent press notices for their debut CD and as well as a
generous commissioning grant from the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland which enabled
a world premiere staging of the project at La MaMa E.T.C..
Mr. Gonzalez received his doctorate in Music Therapy from New York University's School of Education in 1992. He
taught at NYU for ten years and has conducted numerous seminars, workshops and lectures at a number of other colleges
and universities. David worked as a clinical music therapist for twenty years in clinical and educational institutions throughout
the New York metropolitan area. As a guitarist he is a long-time accompanist to pioneering jazz vocalist Lisa Sokolov, having
appeared with her on numerous concert stages including the Montreaux Jazz Festival, The Vision Festival, and the Knitting
Factory.
Visit David Gonzalez on the web.
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