Gonzalez’ creative writings focus on telling women’s stories and histories. Her work has appeared on PBS national television and at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, the Working Theatre, New York Live Arts, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Cell, and Dixon Place. Recent work includes Zoom performances of her ten-minute musical Dance Off for Chicago Dramatists, a libretto workshop for Home of my Ancestors at Frontiers/Fort Worth Opera (originally commissioned by Houston Grand Opera Co.), and an Equity showcase production of Ybor City with Brooklyn Tavern Theatre in NYC (Cuban unionists, readings, rhumba, and smoke converge in 1918 Tampa, Florida). Gonzalez is a member of the National Theatre Conference, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, League of Professional Women in Theatre, the Player’s Club and the Dramatists Guild.

Gonzalez was a founding member of the Urban Bush Women. She has choreographed for Ballet Hispanico, taught theater in Central America and the United Kingdom, given professional and educational workshops in Caribbean and African American dance and lectured about the process of developing new plays. The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Association, and the FIDEOCOMISO for United States/ Mexico Arts exchange have all funded her work. For her individual scholarship and teaching, she has been awarded a residency at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center (2003) and three Senior Scholar Fulbright grants. 

Gonzalez’s unique interdisciplinary initiatives include projection mapped performances of The Snark and The Living Lakes in the Duderstadt Center, developing a performance installation and lecture series titled “Conjuring the Caribbean,” leading a team to develop the interactive historical website 19thCenturyActs, founding Anishinaaabe Theatre Exchange in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to engage Ojibwe communities in dialogue through theatrical performance, and creating a massive open online course “Storytelling for Social Change” with 20,000 learners to date. Anita has authored two books Afro-Mexico: Dancing Between Myth and Reality (2010) and Jarocho’s Soul (2005) and co-edited the volumes Black Performance Theory (2013) and Dance and Political Economies (2021). Her essays about multi-cultural and international performance appear in several edited collections including Narratives in Black British Dance (Akinyele), Black Acting Methods (Luckett), Community Performance Reader (Kuppers)