Artist. Activist. Academic.
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Ricardo Gamboa is an award-winning artist, activist, and academic. Gamboa has dedicated their life to using arts and culture to foster radical change in their native Chicago and beyond.
They are the Creator of BRUJOS and The Hoodoisie.
Gamboa is currently working as a Hollywood screenwriter while finishing their doctorate degree in American Studies at New York University.
The Wizards
The Wizards by Ricardo Gamboa, and directed by Katrina Dion, follows Amado and Sam, a Brown and Black genderqueer couple that move back to Amado’s hometown of Chicago after surviving a hate crime in New York the day after the 2016 presidential election. In their new apartment in the city’s gentrifying Pilsen neighborhood, the two find a Ouija board that puts them in touch the ghost of four boys who were members of The Wizards, a Mexican-American Motown cover band on the Southside during the 70s.
The Wizards is a supernatural thriller about the histories and people that haunt us. The Wizards is brought to you by Concrete Content in conjunction with APO Cultural Center, Destinos, Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, National Museum of Mexican Art and Gertie. Runs October 14-November 19, 2022.