Actor · Teacher · Creator
Goya Robles
Bringing heart and soul to every role — on screen, on stage, and on the mic.
NavigationBringing heart and soul to every role — on screen, on stage, and on the mic.
NavigationGoya Robles is an indigenous actor of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian roots who brings heart and soul to every role — from the vulnerable and volatile to the quirky and awkward, honesty and unpredictability are the stamp on all of his work. Audiences know him from three seasons as Yago on MGM's Get Shorty, as Monkey Morales in Netflix's Griselda, Joaquin on Starz's Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Oscar Papa on NBC's Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime — and on film as Javier in the award-winning Tokyo Cowboy, in The Greatest Beer Run Ever with Zac Efron, Russell Crowe, and Bill Murray, and as Teyo opposite John Leguizamo in 11:55.
He earned his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and was made a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio in 2010. His theater work includes Jackie in The Motherf**ker with the Hat in Los Angeles, Raul in Extremities, and How I Survive off-Broadway. As a spoken word artist he released his debut album, Spit My Soul, in 2010.
Get ShortyTV · MGMYago — Series Regular, 3 Seasons
GriseldaTV · NetflixMonkey Morales — Sofía Vergara's series
Raising KananTV · StarzJoaquin — Power Book III
Law & Order: SVU / OCTV · NBCOscar Papa
11:55Film · Supporting LeadTeyo — with John Leguizamo
Tokyo CowboyFilm · LeadJavier — 10 festival awards
The Greatest Beer Run EverFilm · Apple TV+with Zac Efron, Russell Crowe & Bill Murray
WonderProducing · ShortExecutive Producer — 20+ festival awards incl. HBO Shorts Competition
To Be LovedWriting · In DevelopmentWriter — EPs John Leguizamo & Mariska Hargitay
Now streaming. In this award-winning dramedy directed by Marc Marriott, a Japanese businessman travels from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch — and finds his own life turned around. Goya stars as Javier, the ranch hand whose friendship changes everything. Starring Arata Iura, Robin Weigert, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Kunimura, and Goya Robles. Winner of 10 festival awards.
For Goya, teaching is part of the same calling — bringing the rigor of his Actors Studio training and the reality of a working career into every room he leads.
LabWorkThe Playground
An experiment lab in relaxation and sensory technique, scene work, and original work — at The Playground NYLA.
Lee StrasbergTheatre & Film Institute
A former faculty member at the renowned Method-acting conservatory, teaching the craft to the next generation.
Workshops& Mentorship
Community workshops in acting, improv, and spoken word, led through Paint The Mic.
Actors StudioLineage
A Lifetime Member with an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.
"Whatever you've gone through, there's a place for your darkness. Once you find it, you get to use all of yourself."
— Goya Robles
Born from a need to take care of human expression.
Created by Goya, PTM gives poets, painters, and performers a platform to make original work together. But it's more than one night of performance and collaborative art: the participating artists also teach their craft to the community being served. Each year it partners with a non-profit serving a community in need, building the experience around a shared theme and turning art into direct impact.
A live, curated night of performance and visual art, all created in collaboration.
Artists and performers are paired and create together over months, with the PTM team behind them.
Every guest artist leads a workshop, sharing their craft beyond the stage.
Each theme guides our non-profit partner, elevating local organizations through funds, resources, and visibility.
PTM works in collaboration with the non-profit, which gives us access to the community they serve. The artists on that year's lineup don't just perform — they also donate their time to teach their craft, whether acting, painting, spoken word, or movement, directly to the affected community the non-profit supports. So every performer is also a teacher, and the people the cause serves become artists in their own right.
Goya's next chapter as a creator is To Be Loved — a feature film he wrote, drawn from his own life.
Hoping to mend their fractured family, two young brothers run away from home to search for a lost sister they never knew they had.
The project is in development with John Leguizamo and Mariska Hargitay attached as executive producers, with filming slated for the summer of 2027.
"If a real career opportunity will happen, it will come out of a passion people see in you."
— Goya Robles
