Franky D. Gonzalez
@phatthedd.bsky.social
Latino Playwright & TV Writer. Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence. Playwrights Center Affiliated Writer. SPTV Diverse Writers Program alum. Wrote on 13 Reasons Why. Los Angeles & Dallas based. Massive Sneakerhead.
Another show in the books.
Thank you OutLoud Dallas and SMU Theatre. It was an honor.
Thank you OutLoud Dallas and SMU Theatre. It was an honor.
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Another show in the books.
Thank you OutLoud Dallas and SMU Theatre. It was an honor.
Thank you OutLoud Dallas and SMU Theatre. It was an honor.
OutLoud Dallas, SMU Theatre, and I put our hearts and souls into this. Hope you can come out DFW Theatre familia. Link to tickets in the comments!
December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
OutLoud Dallas, SMU Theatre, and I put our hearts and souls into this. Hope you can come out DFW Theatre familia. Link to tickets in the comments!
Next up. My play Gift of da Maggies is going up as part of Westfield Theatre Group’s Winter Lights show! Ten plays, five visions. This December 5th - 13th! Massachusetts Theatre fam! Come out if you are able. Link to tickets in the comments!
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Next up. My play Gift of da Maggies is going up as part of Westfield Theatre Group’s Winter Lights show! Ten plays, five visions. This December 5th - 13th! Massachusetts Theatre fam! Come out if you are able. Link to tickets in the comments!
Honored and privileged to join the board of @newharmonyproject.bsky.social
I hope to be a credit to the organization and am so grateful that Jenni Werner thought of me to carry this responsibility and take advantage of the opportunity to give back.
Now let’s get the work started.
I hope to be a credit to the organization and am so grateful that Jenni Werner thought of me to carry this responsibility and take advantage of the opportunity to give back.
Now let’s get the work started.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Honored and privileged to join the board of @newharmonyproject.bsky.social
I hope to be a credit to the organization and am so grateful that Jenni Werner thought of me to carry this responsibility and take advantage of the opportunity to give back.
Now let’s get the work started.
I hope to be a credit to the organization and am so grateful that Jenni Werner thought of me to carry this responsibility and take advantage of the opportunity to give back.
Now let’s get the work started.
First day working on this brand new text with OutLoud Dallas. It’s just like a first day of school here at SMU.
So grateful. What an amazing experience this is already shaping up to be.
So grateful. What an amazing experience this is already shaping up to be.
October 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
First day working on this brand new text with OutLoud Dallas. It’s just like a first day of school here at SMU.
So grateful. What an amazing experience this is already shaping up to be.
So grateful. What an amazing experience this is already shaping up to be.
At the legendary East West Players for the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of PARANORMAL INSIDE directed by my big brother Jeff Liu!! So excited!!
October 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
At the legendary East West Players for the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of PARANORMAL INSIDE directed by my big brother Jeff Liu!! So excited!!
Thursday night hippos at LMU!!
Still in such awe of this moment and opportunity. Thank you LMU familia!!
Still in such awe of this moment and opportunity. Thank you LMU familia!!
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thursday night hippos at LMU!!
Still in such awe of this moment and opportunity. Thank you LMU familia!!
Still in such awe of this moment and opportunity. Thank you LMU familia!!
Tickets are live!! Check the comments below!
Abide like the Hippo and join its violent yet benevolent rampage…erm…frolicking! Yes! Frolicking at LMU!
Escobar's Hippo runs October 3rd - 12th and is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Hope to see you there. 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
Abide like the Hippo and join its violent yet benevolent rampage…erm…frolicking! Yes! Frolicking at LMU!
Escobar's Hippo runs October 3rd - 12th and is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Hope to see you there. 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
September 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Tickets are live!! Check the comments below!
Abide like the Hippo and join its violent yet benevolent rampage…erm…frolicking! Yes! Frolicking at LMU!
Escobar's Hippo runs October 3rd - 12th and is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Hope to see you there. 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
Abide like the Hippo and join its violent yet benevolent rampage…erm…frolicking! Yes! Frolicking at LMU!
Escobar's Hippo runs October 3rd - 12th and is directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera.
Hope to see you there. 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
West Coast Theatre fam! Escobar’s Hippo directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera will be going up at Loyola Marymount University October 3rd - 5th and October 9th-12th! Link to tickets in the comment! Hope you can come out!
September 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
West Coast Theatre fam! Escobar’s Hippo directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera will be going up at Loyola Marymount University October 3rd - 5th and October 9th-12th! Link to tickets in the comment! Hope you can come out!
LA theatre fam! 2 Rhythms Theatre is doing a one act at of plays and my own play I’ll Tell You at Sunrise is in the lineup!!
I appreciate the 2Rhythms family and Cristian Luna for giving my play a chance to come to life. Hope everyone can come out and enjoy the full showcase! August 22nd - 31st!
I appreciate the 2Rhythms family and Cristian Luna for giving my play a chance to come to life. Hope everyone can come out and enjoy the full showcase! August 22nd - 31st!
August 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
LA theatre fam! 2 Rhythms Theatre is doing a one act at of plays and my own play I’ll Tell You at Sunrise is in the lineup!!
I appreciate the 2Rhythms family and Cristian Luna for giving my play a chance to come to life. Hope everyone can come out and enjoy the full showcase! August 22nd - 31st!
I appreciate the 2Rhythms family and Cristian Luna for giving my play a chance to come to life. Hope everyone can come out and enjoy the full showcase! August 22nd - 31st!
Anniversary message from a proud Playwright-in-Residence of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Four years, three productions, & how many events later I can only look back in gratitude for all my time with Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Thank you for the memories and last four years, BATC fam. Grateful.
Four years, three productions, & how many events later I can only look back in gratitude for all my time with Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Thank you for the memories and last four years, BATC fam. Grateful.
July 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Anniversary message from a proud Playwright-in-Residence of the Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Four years, three productions, & how many events later I can only look back in gratitude for all my time with Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Thank you for the memories and last four years, BATC fam. Grateful.
Four years, three productions, & how many events later I can only look back in gratitude for all my time with Bishop Arts Theatre Center.
Thank you for the memories and last four years, BATC fam. Grateful.
Next up.
Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes here at South Texas College Theatre.
I am at peace. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you STX family for this opportunity.
Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes here at South Texas College Theatre.
I am at peace. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you STX family for this opportunity.
June 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Next up.
Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes here at South Texas College Theatre.
I am at peace. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you STX family for this opportunity.
Even Flowers Bloom in Hell, Sometimes here at South Texas College Theatre.
I am at peace. I am overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you STX family for this opportunity.
Next up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival: the workshop production of Edgar’s Living Funeral by Maria Rodriguez Bross directed by Joel Jason Rodriguez!!
So excited for this one.
So excited for this one.
June 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Next up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival: the workshop production of Edgar’s Living Funeral by Maria Rodriguez Bross directed by Joel Jason Rodriguez!!
So excited for this one.
So excited for this one.
First up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival:
Miriam’s Song by Robert Paul Moreira and directed by Justin Lee Ozuna.
Can’t wait!
Miriam’s Song by Robert Paul Moreira and directed by Justin Lee Ozuna.
Can’t wait!
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
First up at the South Texas College Theatre’s 4th Annual New Play Festival:
Miriam’s Song by Robert Paul Moreira and directed by Justin Lee Ozuna.
Can’t wait!
Miriam’s Song by Robert Paul Moreira and directed by Justin Lee Ozuna.
Can’t wait!
Did that really happen?
Could it be possible to have experienced such creativity and joy?
With the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social the answer is a resounding yes.
Thank you. Truly.
Let’s do it again sometime.
Could it be possible to have experienced such creativity and joy?
With the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social the answer is a resounding yes.
Thank you. Truly.
Let’s do it again sometime.
June 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Did that really happen?
Could it be possible to have experienced such creativity and joy?
With the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social the answer is a resounding yes.
Thank you. Truly.
Let’s do it again sometime.
Could it be possible to have experienced such creativity and joy?
With the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social the answer is a resounding yes.
Thank you. Truly.
Let’s do it again sometime.
What an honor that my two monologues DO YOU KNOW WHY MOCKINGBIRDS SING AT NIGHT? & HAPPINESS IS THE MOMENT BEFORE DEATH were presented here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social Monologue Workshop.
Thank you David Haynes and Jameka Laché Horton for choosing my two monologues and interpreting them.
Thank you David Haynes and Jameka Laché Horton for choosing my two monologues and interpreting them.
June 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What an honor that my two monologues DO YOU KNOW WHY MOCKINGBIRDS SING AT NIGHT? & HAPPINESS IS THE MOMENT BEFORE DEATH were presented here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social Monologue Workshop.
Thank you David Haynes and Jameka Laché Horton for choosing my two monologues and interpreting them.
Thank you David Haynes and Jameka Laché Horton for choosing my two monologues and interpreting them.
Thank you @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the opportunity to hear Happy Together here at the conference. It was amazing and the feedback was tremendous.
My heart is full today. So very full.
My heart is full today. So very full.
June 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Thank you @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the opportunity to hear Happy Together here at the conference. It was amazing and the feedback was tremendous.
My heart is full today. So very full.
My heart is full today. So very full.
My friend Philip Middleton Williams captured this pic of me performing in a reading here at the Valdez Theatre Conference.
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I look healthier.
Still a long way to go. So, so very long to go.
But I look healthier.
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I look healthier.
Still a long way to go. So, so very long to go.
But I look healthier.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
My friend Philip Middleton Williams captured this pic of me performing in a reading here at the Valdez Theatre Conference.
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I look healthier.
Still a long way to go. So, so very long to go.
But I look healthier.
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I look healthier.
Still a long way to go. So, so very long to go.
But I look healthier.
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June 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Tonight’s show, BLANCHE STUART SCOTT by Kristen Ritter here at Valdez Civic Center!
Thanks @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the invite!!
Thanks @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the invite!!
June 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Tonight’s show, BLANCHE STUART SCOTT by Kristen Ritter here at Valdez Civic Center!
Thanks @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the invite!!
Thanks @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social for the invite!!
Taken just before midnight in Valdez, AK.
I never dreamed I’d see the light and blue skies when it’s supposed to be darkest.
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What a world. What revelations come when you wait.
I never dreamed I’d see the light and blue skies when it’s supposed to be darkest.
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What a world. What revelations come when you wait.
June 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Taken just before midnight in Valdez, AK.
I never dreamed I’d see the light and blue skies when it’s supposed to be darkest.
…
What a world. What revelations come when you wait.
I never dreamed I’d see the light and blue skies when it’s supposed to be darkest.
…
What a world. What revelations come when you wait.
Got the most wonderful gift yesterday when I found out that my little short piece PARENTAL QUESTIONS was selected for presentation then beautifully interpreted by Madison Dooley at the Valdez Fringe!
So happy to share more work here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social!
So happy to share more work here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social!
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Got the most wonderful gift yesterday when I found out that my little short piece PARENTAL QUESTIONS was selected for presentation then beautifully interpreted by Madison Dooley at the Valdez Fringe!
So happy to share more work here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social!
So happy to share more work here at the @valdeztheatreconf.bsky.social!
Last week I got to live another dream when I completed my residency at @newharmonyproject.bsky.social with my family.
The last few weeks have been nothing short of special. I will cherish the memories I created and am creating always.
The last few weeks have been nothing short of special. I will cherish the memories I created and am creating always.
June 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Last week I got to live another dream when I completed my residency at @newharmonyproject.bsky.social with my family.
The last few weeks have been nothing short of special. I will cherish the memories I created and am creating always.
The last few weeks have been nothing short of special. I will cherish the memories I created and am creating always.
Making a dream come true at long last.
I’m finally getting the honor of attending the Valdez Theatre Conference.
I am so grateful and in awe of what has been a surreal and beautiful year.
Let’s conjure up some theatre magic now.
I’m finally getting the honor of attending the Valdez Theatre Conference.
I am so grateful and in awe of what has been a surreal and beautiful year.
Let’s conjure up some theatre magic now.
June 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Making a dream come true at long last.
I’m finally getting the honor of attending the Valdez Theatre Conference.
I am so grateful and in awe of what has been a surreal and beautiful year.
Let’s conjure up some theatre magic now.
I’m finally getting the honor of attending the Valdez Theatre Conference.
I am so grateful and in awe of what has been a surreal and beautiful year.
Let’s conjure up some theatre magic now.