Miranda González
Producing Artistic Director
UrbanTheater Company
Miranda González, born and raised in Chicago, is currently a Producing Artistic Director at UrbanTheater Company (UTC) in Humboldt Park. She is also a founding ensemble member of Teatro Luna, an all-Latina theater company in Chicago. A multi-hyphenate artist and activist, Miranda is a playwright, director, producer, facilitator, and organizational strategist.
She has also co-created content addressing anti-blackness in the Latine community.
With Bachelors of Science from DePaul University, Miranda is a proud collective member of Culture Change Lab, supporting arts organizations, funders, and lobbyists in reimagining collective structures through operational management. She also collaborates with BLVE Consults. Miranda has devised and developed plays since 2000 and is a 3Arts Awardee and a recipient of the International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50.
As a theater maker, Miranda’s play, Back In The Day: an 80’s House Music Dancesical, world premiered at UTC in the fall of 2019. In 2020, she began developing a play that discusses the history of the underground railroad to Mexico as a part of Latino Theater Company’s Imaginistas cohort in Los Angeles. Some of her directing credits include Thank You for Coming. take care by Stacey Rose at Court Theatre, Ashes of Light by Marco Antonio Rodriguez, and La Gringa by Carmen Rivera. Miranda is also an executive producer for the web series 50 Blind Dates with Melissa DuPrey and has written for web series Ruby's World Yo created by Marilyn Camacho.