About me
José Cruz González's plays include The Throwaways (Cleveland Play House), If by Chance (South Coast Repertory), The Extraordinary ZLuna Captures the World (DCPA Theatre Company), Under a Baseball Sky (Old Globe), American Mariachi (14 regional theater productions), Sunsets & Margaritas (DCPA Theatre Company), September Shoes (Geva Theatre), The San Patricios (PCPA), Among the Darkest Shadows (Wharton Center for Performing Arts), The Sun Serpent (Childsplay). In 2022, Mr. González was selected to the Kennedy Center’s Next 50, a new initiative celebrating cultural leadership with 50 trailblazing leaders and organizations. He was also a grantee of the 2021 ReImagine: New Plays in TYA to support the development of The Wondrous Adventures of Pia Sandía. The Astronaut Farmworker was a 2016 PEN Center USA Literary Award finalist. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Professor Emeritus at California State University Los Angeles, The Dramatists Guild of America and TYA/USA, and a board member of the New Harmony Project, dedicated to a desire to support stories of hope, optimism, and the resiliency of the human spirit.
