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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's Jr. Poetry section.  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 Books),  and playwright:THE INTRUDERS,  FOR THE LOVE OF OSCAR,  BRAVE BESSIE & SWEET'S BOUQUET.  Her plays have been presented in DC, MD, NY, MA & KY.  Play-readings of her works have been presented at the Dramatist Guild of America’s national conference 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 DC metropolitan area comprised of Howard University theatre alumni, and has produced, directed and choreographed productions in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, ATLAS Intersections Festival, DC Black Theatre Festival, Children’s Shakespeare Festival at the Folger Theatre, and Bison on the Vineyard. 

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A retired Arts Educator, she taught in Washington, DC Public Schools 26 years.  From 2018-2019 she served as Coordinator of the Saturday Children's Theatre Program at the historic National Theatre, and she has been  contracted to present children/family programs by the Walt Disney Company and the Smithsonian.    

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She earned a BFA from Howard University in WDC, studied playwriting at Kenyon College in Ohio and earned graduate credits & certificates in Arts Education from American & Trinity Universities and the Kennedy Center.  After undergraduate school, she worked as an actress in television, Off-Broadway and regional theatre in NYC and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio and dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School and the Broadway Dance Center.  

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She is a member of SAG (Screen Actors Guild),  AEA (Actors Equity Association) and  DGA (Dramatist Guild of America).  She is the proud mother of two amazing human beings and grandma to Momo & Cam.  

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