Hope Villanueva
she/her
Production Manager, Stage Manager
Asian, Hispanic, Latiné, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, Woman/Femme
Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
Rockville, MD
I'm a California-born multi-hyphenate playwright and AEA Stage Manager who often travels to go where the work is. I think new works are where it's at and if you're doing a revival, you better have a damn good reason. In our dangerous times, we need to be thinking outside the box and lifting the voices the status quo wants silenced.
Credits
Based in the Washington, DC area, Hope’s credits include PSM on A Room in the Castle (Folger/Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), Mexodus (Berkeley Rep & Baltimore Center Stage), The Fires (SoHo Rep), The Dragon King’s Daughter (Kennedy Center), King of the Yees (Signature Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage), The Day You Begin (Kennedy Center), A Nice Indian Boy, Awake and Sing, and Our Town (Olney Theatre Center), Little Shop of Horrors (Idaho Shakespeare), WILD: A Musical Becoming (A.R.T., dir. Diane Paulus, feat. Idina Menzel, Javier Muñoz), The Rock of Ages All-Star Reunion Concert (streamed) and Rock of Ages Hollywood (Kristin Hanggi, original Broadway director), BLKS, directed by Nataki Garrett (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Hand to God, Choir Boy, and The Big Meal (Studio Theatre), Singles in Agriculture (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Private, Marie and Rosetta, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls, Queens Girl in Africa, Milk Like Sugar, and The Gospel of Lovingkindness (Mosaic), A House of Glass (Arena Stage), Escape from Peligro Island (Imagination Stage), Endgame (Baltimore CenterStage), as well as PSM on the National Tours of Rock of Ages (National and International), My Fair Lady and Young Frankenstein. NYC credits include Who’s Your Baghdaddy (Off-Broadway) and Once Upon a Pastime (WPPAC). She was previously Resident and Touring Stage Manager for Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Associate Production Manager on Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey’s Bellobration. Hope is also a playwright whose work has been seen at the Women’s Voices Festival, Kitchen Dog Theatre, The Wayward Artist, Rapid Lemon Productions, Nu Sass Productions, Ally Theatre Company, The Black and Latino Playwrights’ Conference, and at NextStop Theatre Company, among others. She was a 2020 O’Neill Conference Finalist for her play The QoL Mandate and holds a BA in playwriting from UC Santa Barbara. Hope is the current Literary Manager for Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY (artistic director, Scott Schwartz) and holds second master’s degree in writing for stage and screen at Lesley University.
