Joelle Aquiles Gonzalez is a Brooklyn-based production designer and artist who creates responsive, dramaturgical contexts for live performance. Her practice is defined by versatility and layered storytelling, balancing tight budgets and rigorous timelines to craft inventive stages, properties, and solutions that empower performers.
    Informed by her Venezuelan heritage and identity as a trans woman, Joelle’s design philosophy is guided by a search for truth that blends historical reference with a modern urgency for storytelling. Whether designing for circus or community-centered theatre, she oversees every stage of production—from concept through completion—ensuring that each artistic vision remains intact as it becomes a tangible, logistical reality.