Award-winning storyteller/musician/poet/actor and educator Dr. David Gonzalez was nominated for a 2006 Drama Desk Award for The Frog Bride presented at Broadway's New Victory Theater. Corporate leaders, college students and young people alike are enthralled with David's passion, storytelling and life lessons. Companies such as JP Morgan Chase and Proctor and Gamble bring this powerful speaker and performer to their events.

Mr. Gonzalez has created numerous productions including the critically acclaimed ¡Sofrito!, MytholoJazz, Double Crossed (commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution), As If The Past Were Listening, The Secret of the Ceiba Tree, Finding North, and City of Dreams. David wrote Rise for Freedom! for the Cincinnati Opera and Mariel, an Afro-Cuban musical which won the "Macy's New Play Prize for Young Audiences".

Mr. Gonzalez' poetry was featured in Bill Moyers' documentary Fooling with Words on PBS, and NPR's All Things Considered. He was the host of New York Kids on WNYC for eight seasons, and has made over 3000 appearances at colleges, businesses, schools, and at many of the prestigious performing arts centers across the country and abroad. Mr. Gonzalez received his doctorate from New York University's School of Education where he taught for ten years. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2006.