NEWS, OCTOBER 2025:
​STOP-MOTION, directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser, to be screened at the La Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles

NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2025:

RISE 2025 SUMMIT: Access in Theory to Access in Practice
A panel co-created by Expand the Canon and Parity Productions 

September 9th, 2025 at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
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Featuring Ludovica Villar-Hauser, co-host and panelist
Emily Lyon, co-host and panelist 
Lee Bynum, moderator
Maria Porto, special guest panelist 

NEWS, JUNE 2025:

LUDOVICA AND ELIZABETH HESS FEATURED IN HOWLROUND THEATER COMMONS

Why We Do Theatre and Advocacy


​"And although advocacy is critical, especially now, you can't tell people what to do, and you can't tell them how to do it. I learned early on that you can't force people to change—you can only create the conditions, and hope that people respond. As student union president at Hammersmith and West London College, I fought for abortion rights and fair treatment of international students. We rallied, organized, and took action, but I kept hitting a wall, thinking if I just explained things passionately enough, people would listen and act. That came from my childhood—my father, deeply political, had fought and eventually fled Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. I grew up steeped in activism—I attended my first protest at the age of ten. But at nineteen, I realized advocacy isn’t about convincing people through sheer will. Change happens when individuals come to it on their own. It was a humbling lesson."
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-Ludovica Villar-Hauser, Why We Do Theatre and Advocacy 
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