Nicholas Gonzalez

Gonzalez was born in San Antonio, Texas, where he was a student at Central Catholic High School. He became an accomplished cross-country and track runner, winning the Texas State Championship in the mile and two mile. After graduating in 1994 and turning down a presidential appointment to West Point, Gonzalez pursued an English degree at Stanford University in California.\n', ' He attended two terms at Oxford University in England. The following summer, he returned to Europe on a research grant where he studied at Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin to complete his thesis on James Joyce\'s Ulysses.\n', ' While finishing his Bachelor of Arts in English in 1998, Gonzalez was approached to do a one-man theater piece called Gas by María Irene Fornés.\n', '