Krysta Gonzales (she/they) is a queer Los-Angeles based actor, voiceover artist, playwright, and podcast host of Black American and Mexican American descent. She earned her BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Experimental Theatre Wing and was a Diversity Scholar at The Groundlings School. Her recent credits include Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” and “Elemental,” “Quarter Life Poetry” on FX, and her play Más Cara was the flagship production for the FuturX 2019 Theater Festival in Austin. They’re a current member of Dan Froot & Company, which creates theater pieces, podcasts, and community gatherings that foster dialogue around hunger, race, the gun debate, and other pressing social issues. She also serves as a board member for The Michael’s Daughter Foundation, which provides free and low-cost enrichment programs to youth and families in underserved communities, including creative writing workshops, creating original plays, monologues, and short films along with documentaries and music. They are also committed to providing resources such as financial wellness workshops, emergency funds, and scholarship money for college students impacted by incarceration and/or having a loved one behind bars. Krysta’s podcast “History Around You,” produced by Jett Road Studios, focuses on family stories that shed light on significant historical events and is available on Apple and Spotify.

In this episode, recorded in September 2021, Krysta reads from ‘Intimations’ by Zadie Smith