HOPE VILLANUEVA

Rock of Ages – Hollywood

Awake and Sing! – Olney Theatre

Choir Boy – Studio Theatre

Based in the Washington, DC area, Hope’s credits include PSM on The Day You Begin (Kennedy 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), Awake and Sing and Our Town (Olney Theatre Center), 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 holds a BA in playwriting from UC Santa Barbara. She is the current Literary Manager for Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY (artistic director, Scott Schwartz) and is working on a second master’s degree in writing for stage and screen at Lesley University.

Recently: The Day You Begin (Kennedy Center), Little Shop of Horrors (Idaho Shakespeare), WILD: A Musical Becoming (A.R.T., dir. Diane Paulus, feat. Idina Menzel, Javier Muñoz), Private (Mosaic Theatre, DC). Off-Broadway: Who’s Your Baghdaddy? or How I Started the Iraq War. National Tour: Rock of Ages, Young Frankenstein, My Fair Lady, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Bellobration. Regional/Other: Romy & Michele: The Musical, Double Helix: A Musical (NYC Workshop/Bay Street Theatre), Rock of Ages Hollywood. Singles in Agriculture (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Once Upon A Pastime (WPPAC, NY), Endgame (Baltimore CenterStage Mobile Unit), The King and I (Riverside Performing Arts),
Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Resident PSM. Washington, DC: BLKS (Woolly Mammoth), Twist Your Dickens (The Second City/Kennedy Center), Marie and Rosetta, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls, Queens Girl in Africa (Mosaic Theatre), Hand to God, Choir Boy, Laugh, and The Big Meal (Studio Theatre), Our Town and Awake and Sing (Olney Theatre Center).

Hope Headshot 2013 Portrait

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Hope is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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What the heck is a Stagewoozle??

When Hope was in college in *cough cough* everyone was being assigned an email address that was their name and setting up their personal emails the same way. She wanted something different and waited for inspiration to strike. 

One day, she stumbled upon an episode of “Winnie the Pooh” on TV, featuring Pooh eating some bad honey and going on a drug-trip-like dream sequence starring brightly colored elephants and kangaroo-like creatures: Heffalumps and Woozles! She recalled this from seeing it long ago as a little kid and referenced them in her email name. 

Stagewoozle has stuck, often delighting people to remember that episode, and now she refuses to change it!