Phoenix Gonzalez earned her B.A. in Religion from Princeton University, with Certificates (minors) in Theater and Medieval Studies. After several years in New York City as a tech startup product manager by day, actor by night, and all around frequent Met Cloisters museum patron, she attended Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music to study the intersection of Christian ritual and theater in the Middle Ages. There, she received her Master of Arts in Religion and continued on the medieval drama wagon out to Chicago. The recipient of a Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Medieval Studies, at Northwestern, her research centers medieval drama then and now, and she is committed to merging her scholarly pursuits with her practice as an actor and director in staging these fascinating plays today.