Joelle Aquiles Gonzalez is a Venezuelan-American production designer from Miami, FL, crafting dramaturgical contexts for live performance. She designs and builds stages, properties, and costumes that are practical, inventive, and responsive to performers, often within tight budgets, short timelines, and unconventional spaces. She has designed for theatre, circus, and events that prioritize the building of community and the seeking of truth.
    She uses her Latin background and experience as a trans woman to inform her dramaturgy and write stories in pursuit of healing, creating shared spaces that accurately reflect reality in an impressionistic way while drawing on a deep archive of references in art and design history. From initial idea through execution, she works resourcefully with versatile materials, collaborators, and techniques to make ambitious concepts logistically achievable. She is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.