Goat in the Road

In 2025, Goat in the Road Productions will premiere Carlota, a new musical built in collaboration with ensemble member Denise Frazier. Carlota will examine the life and descendants of Carlota Ruíz de González, a fictionalized version of a 19th-century Afro-Cuban revolutionary. Jumping back and forth in time, the story will revolve around González’s time as an enslaved woman in colonial and Reconstruction-era New Orleans, her work in the Cuban War for Independence, and the connection with her great-great-grandaughter Carlota James, living in present-day New Orleans.

Land Acknowledgement: Chitimacha, Houma, Biloxi, Choctaw