Maya Quetzali Gonzalez is a Texas-grown, Brooklyn-based director and choreographer.

Her work has been seen at LCT3, the Bushwick Starr, SheNYC, OOB, The Tank, Judson Arts, and The Brick. As an associate/assistant, she has worked at Playwrights, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, and twice on Broadway. Maya is an Associate Member of SDC and a directing Fellow with WP Theater’s 2026-2028 Lab, and has been a FORGE Fellow and a member of Roundabout Directors Group. She has had residencies with UCLA’s’ Dancing Disability Lab and Movement Research’s Access. Movement. Play. residency.

Maya is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar.  She is an organizer for reproductive justice and was previously a climate organizer with the Sunrise Movement.