Marlina Gonzalez (she/her)
Marlina is a multidisciplinary producer, curator, writer, artist with a focus on media and performing arts. Marlina strives to bring together the power of vox populi (voice of the people) in all her work.
She has been working as a community engagement specialist, harnessing the power of community stories as a means to ‘find convergence from our points of divergence.’
From 2011 to 2021, she was with Twin Cities PBS (TPT) working with membership/viewer services and community engagement. She is currently Community Engagement Specialist for American Public Media Group (APMG) / MN Public Radio (MPR). She is also the story-gatherer/mini-documentary producer for MN Humanities Center’s 2022 traveling exhibit entitled We Are Water.
Marlina teaches at Augsburg University (Introduction to Pan Asian Theater) and at the University of MN Asian American Studies/Global Studies (Black + Asian Solidarity and Community.)
She is currently writing a new play (started through Theater Mu’s Mu Tang Clan incubation program) entitled Oryza about the tensions between reality and truth-telling through theater and cinema.
In 2021-2022 alone, Marlina has received the Springboard for the Arts Creative Engagement Fellowship, MRAC’s Arts Impact for Individuals, Twin Cities Media Alliance Fellowship for Our Space Is Spoken For (2022),
In 2012, she also received The Joyce Foundation Award for Theater Artists Of Color. In 2018, she wrote/co-directed Isla Tuliro (Island Of Confusion) for Pangea World Theater and Teatro Del Pueblo. In 2009, Filipina Women’s Network (CA) named her one of The 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. as a Thought Leader and Innovator.
Check out her podcast co-produced with Ramon Hough entitled Kuwentuhan, immigrant stories from the Filipinx communities on Spotify and Buzz Sprout. This podcast is made possible through funding support from CAAL’s SPARK Leadership award and Filipinx for Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice in MN Civic Engagement award.
Marlina holds a B.A. in Broadcast Communication (University of the Philippines) and M.A. in Radio, TV Film (University of North Texas).
