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Hope's had a love affair with words since childhood.  Her very first poem, written at the age of twelve, was published in Essence Magazine.  After graduating from Howard University, endorsed by the late US Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, she was nominated and awarded a Larry Neal Fellowship for Poetry by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities in Washington.  She went on to become a children’s author: THESE HANDS (Hyperion/Little Brown),  novelist: LUKE WARM (Archway Publishing),  and playwright:THE INTRUDERS,  FOR THE LOVE OF OSCAR,  BRAVE BESSIE &  A LOVE SUPREME.  Her plays have been produced in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Kentucky and Massachusetts.  Play-readings of her works have been presented at the Dramatist Guild of America’s national conferences and the National Black Theatre Festival.   

 

She's also Founder/Artistic Director of The Bison Repertory Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company in the Washington, DC metropolitan area comprised of Howard University theatre alumni, and has produced, directed and choreographed productions in local festivals such as the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, ATLAS Intersections Festival, DC Black Theatre Festival, the Children’s Shakespeare Festival at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, and Bison on the Vineyard. 

 

From 2018-2020, she served as Coordinator of the Saturday Children’s Theatre Program at the historic National Theatre in Washington, DC, and she's been contracted by the Smithsonian and the Walt Disney Company to present storytelling and literary workshops for children.  

 

In addition, she is an Arts Educator (certified K-12 /Performing Arts), and has taught  Performing Arts & Visual Art for twenty years in DC and Maryland Public Schools, including the Duke Ellington High School of the Arts. 

 

She is a member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild),  AEA (Actors Equity Association),  DGA (Dramatist Guild of America), The League of Women in Theater,  and  the WTU (Washington Teacher’s Union).

 

She has a BFA from Howard University in Washington, DC, studied playwriting at Kenyon College in Ohio and earned graduate hours in Arts education at American University and Trinity College in Washington, DC.   After undergraduate school, she spent ten years in New York, where she worked as an actress in television, film, Off-Broadway and regional theatre.  During this period, she studied acting at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio and dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School and the Broadway Dance Center.  

 

She is proud mother of two amazing human beings and she resides in Silver Spring, MD.

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                      For writing, her pen name is Hope Lynne Price.  For all other endeavors she is simply Hope Lindsay.