Honored to announce that my play MIRACLES AND MAGIC will be part of @thrownstone.bsky.social’s CT Short Play Fest ‘26!! Been wanting to work with Thrown Stone for awhile. Happy to get this opportunity!
Franky D. Gonzalez
@phatthedd.bsky.social
Latino Playwright & TV Writer. Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence. Playwrights Center Affiliated Writer. SPTV Diverse Writers Program alum. Wrote on 13 Reasons Why. Los Angeles & Dallas based. Massive Sneakerhead.
The inaugural Oliver Kelly Award winning ESCOBAR’S HIPPO will trample its way into Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest in Fort Worth this June! Do not miss out!! Link to tickets below!
I am overwhelmed & honored to announce that I have been selected to participate in a @the-vcca.bsky.social writing residency. Slowly but surely, my dreams are coming true. Thank you VCCA family for this opportunity. I hope I can be a credit to this incredible institution for artists. #VCCAFellows
Kicking off my time with New York Classical Theatre New Visions Cycle 2 cohort with a FREE reading of my play Hedda on May 19th at 7:00 pm. Link to tickets in the comments. Reserve your spot now! Hope to see you there.
Honored to share that my play HEDDA is a finalist for NYClassical’s New Visions Cycle 2 program. Check out the press release here! nyclassical.org/news-press/n...
Four New Plays Selected for NY Classical’s New Visions Cycle 2 — NY Classical Theatre
New York Classical Theatre has announced the four finalists for Cycle 2 of New Visions, its flagship play development program supporting new plays inspired by classical works. Selected from nearly 400...
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It moved so quickly. I can scarcely believe it was wasn’t a dream. But it happened. It did. Thank you @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social for welcoming me & for the chance to be part of this community. I remain eternally grateful. I am proud to be called a VSC Fellow. Hope we can do it again soon.
I am honored to announce that I will receive the Creative Changemaker Award from OutLoud Dallas.
Another show in the books. Thank you OutLoud Dallas and SMU Theatre. It was an honor.
OutLoud Dallas, SMU Theatre, and I put our hearts and souls into this. Hope you can come out DFW Theatre familia. Link to tickets in the comments!
Next up. My play Gift of da Maggies is going up as part of Westfield Theatre Group’s Winter Lights show! Ten plays, five visions. This December 5th - 13th! Massachusetts Theatre fam! Come out if you are able. Link to tickets in the comments!
Honored and privileged to join the board of @newharmonyproject.bsky.social I hope to be a credit to the organization and am so grateful that Jenni Werner thought of me to carry this responsibility and take advantage of the opportunity to give back. Now let’s get the work started.
First day working on this brand new text with OutLoud Dallas. It’s just like a first day of school here at SMU. So grateful. What an amazing experience this is already shaping up to be.
At the legendary East West Players for the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of PARANORMAL INSIDE directed by my big brother Jeff Liu!! So excited!!
Thursday night hippos at LMU!! Still in such awe of this moment and opportunity. Thank you LMU familia!!
Tickets are live!! Check the comments below! Abide like the Hippo and join its violent yet benevolent rampage…erm…frolicking! Yes! Frolicking at LMU! Escobar's Hippo runs October 3rd - 12th and is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera. Hope to see you there. 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
West Coast Theatre fam! Escobar’s Hippo directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera will be going up at Loyola Marymount University October 3rd - 5th and October 9th-12th! Link to tickets in the comment! Hope you can come out!
LA theatre fam! 2 Rhythms Theatre is doing a one act at of plays and my own play I’ll Tell You at Sunrise is in the lineup!! I appreciate the 2Rhythms family and Cristian Luna for giving my play a chance to come to life. Hope everyone can come out and enjoy the full showcase! August 22nd - 31st!
Anniversary message from a proud Playwright-in-Residence of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center. Four years, three productions, & how many events later I can only look back in gratitude for all my time with Bishop Arts Theatre Center. Thank you for the memories and last four years, BATC fam. Grateful.
Next up. Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes here at South Texas College Theatre. I am at peace. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you STX family for this opportunity.
Next up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival: the workshop production of Edgar’s Living Funeral by Maria Rodriguez Bross directed by Joel Jason Rodriguez!! So excited for this one.
First up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival: Miriam’s Song by Robert Paul Moreira and directed by Justin Lee Ozuna. Can’t wait!
Did that really happen? Could it be possible to have experienced such creativity and joy? With the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social the answer is a resounding yes. Thank you. Truly. Let’s do it again sometime.
What an honor that my two monologues DO YOU KNOW WHY MOCKINGBIRDS SING AT NIGHT? & HAPPINESS IS THE MOMENT BEFORE DEATH were presented here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social Monologue Workshop. Thank you David Haynes and Jameka Laché Horton for choosing my two monologues and interpreting them.
Thank you @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the opportunity to hear Happy Together here at the conference. It was amazing and the feedback was tremendous. My heart is full today. So very full.
My friend Philip Middleton Williams captured this pic of me performing in a reading here at the Valdez Theatre Conference. … I look healthier. Still a long way to go. So, so very long to go. But I look healthier. …
10:00 pm in Valdez, AK. Wow…just wow. @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social
Tonight’s show, BLANCHE STUART SCOTT by Kristen Ritter here at Valdez Civic Center! Thanks @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the invite!!
Taken just before midnight in Valdez, AK. I never dreamed I’d see the light and blue skies when it’s supposed to be darkest. … What a world. What revelations come when you wait.
Got the most wonderful gift yesterday when I found out that my little short piece PARENTAL QUESTIONS was selected for presentation then beautifully interpreted by Madison Dooley at the Valdez Fringe! So happy to share more work here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social!