Esperanza Catubig has been acting professionally for over twenty years, appearing extensively in stage productions, educational theatre, commercials, industrials, a one-woman show, TV and film. Born and raised in San Francisco, she studied dance, music, and theatre at San Francisco’s Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, and went on to graduate with a BFA in Acting at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. As an actor, she has travelled and worked throughout the U.S., parts of Europe, as well as China. Having lived and worked in Los Angeles for eight years, she came to terms that she wanted to tell more Filipino-American women’s stories, to celebrate “home,” and since then, co-wrote, starred, and produced her first short film, Nico’s Sampaguita directed by Aaron Woolfolk.
Currently in the film festival circuit, she stars in a feature film, Acts of God, directed by Shane Sooter. She has worked with stage directors: Jon Lawrence Rivera (LA production of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters 2004/2007 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Jean Colonomus’s The Third From the Left at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006); Henry Chan (Fox Showcase, East West Players); Andre DeShields (Brecht’s The Three Penny Opera); For the screen, she has worked with Tim Busfield (Without A Trace, CBS), Jonathan Frakes (Clockstoppers), and Tony Kaye (SBC). Esperanza’s directorial debut was a studio project of David Henry Hwang’s FOB. She has also staged the writings of Jin Hunh Li’s Superfriends for Asian American Theatre, and in LA, Jeannie Barroga’s Banyan.