As a premier storyteller both in US and abroad, David Gonzalez uses his powerful craft to engage and inspire his audiences. 

"Relying on the majesty and variety of language, the limitless landscape of imagination, the pulse of music and the beauty of art he kept alive the ancient art of storytelling." -- New York Times

David teaches business leaders how stories are powerful connectors to clients and customers. For youth audiences he inspires hope and motivation through humor, story and sheer human connection.  Dr. David Gonzalez is a speaker, poet, storyteller, music therapist, and radio host. Honored  as a nominee for the 2006 Drama Desk Award for his original production “The Frog Bride” at Broadway’s New Victory Theater.  He was the 2010 Joseph Campbell Foundation Fellow, and received the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence from International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY).  Mr. Gonzalez was the host of New York Kids on on NPR’s WNYC for eight seasons.   He wrote Rise for Freedom!, an opera libretto commissioned and produced by the Cincinnati Opera in 2007, and  Mariel, an Afro-Cuban musical which won the Macy’s “New Play Prize for Young Audiences”.  Mr. Gonzalez' poetry has been featured at Lincoln Center's Out-of-Doors Festival, Bill Moyers' documentary Fooling with Words on PBS, and NPR's All Things Considered.  He has created numerous theatrical productions including the critically acclaimed ¡Sofrito! with Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band.  His many works; Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis, commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution, As If The Past Were Listening,  MytholoJazz, Finding North, and City of Dreams, have been performed at the most prestigious performing arts centers, theaters, and festivals in the US and abroad.  City of Dreams has the distinction of three return engagements at The Royal National Theatre in London.  David was a featured performer at the 2007 National Storytelling Festival.  Mr. Gonzalez received his doctorate in Music Therapy from New York University's School of Education, where he also taught for ten years. He was recently Artist-In-Residence at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland where he completed Wounded Splendor, a multi-media theater piece about our responsibility to the natural world.  David was commissioned to write a new version of Sleeping Beauty which toured to the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other prestigious venues starting in 2012.  Mr. Gonzalez recently recorded and premiered his original version of The Carnival of the Animals with piano virtuoso Frederic Chiu. His play The Man of the House was commissioned by, and will premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2013.  In demand as a workshop leader and public speaker, Dr. Gonzalez tours widely throughout the US and abroad.