Founder and Artistic Director of Parity Productions, a NYC non-profit theatre company championing the work of female, trans, gender expansive and intersex artists.
Ludovica Villar-Hauser is the Founder, Artistic Director and Executive Director of Parity Productions. At Parity, her directing credits include the world premieres of Charlie's Waiting by 2017 Development Award Winner Mêlisa Annis, Mirrors by 2018 Development Award Winner Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Stop-Motion by 2018 Development Award Winner Liz Kerin, This Stretch of Montpelier by 2020 Development Award Winner Kelley Nicole Girod, and the award-winning She Calls Me Firefly by Teresa Lotz.
Prior to founding Parity Productions, Ludovica directed many critically acclaimed plays in the U.S. and U.K., including Final Analysis by Otho Eskin (Signature Theatre); The Countess by Gregory Murphy (Lamb’s Theatre) and in London’s West End (The Criterion Theatre); Leaves of Glass by Phillip Ridley (Peter Jay Sharpe Theater); As It Is in Heaven by Arlene Hutton (The Cherry Lane); The Brightness of Heaven, (The Cherry Lane) and This Will All Be Yours (The Barrow Group Theatre) by Laura Pedersen; and Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill in London’s West End (The Arts Theatre). The filmed stage production of Stop-Motion by Liz Kerin in 2021 marks Ludovica's directorial film debut.
In 1984, at the age of 23, with her production of O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Ludovica became the youngest woman ever to simultaneously produce and direct in London’s West End. In the New York theatre industry, she was also one of the few women to own and operate her own theatre — The Greenwich Street Theatre — which she ran for 17 years.
Ludovica served on the Board of the League of Professional Theatre Women from 2009-2018, is currently the Producer of the League's Oral History Project at the NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Ludovica served as co-President to the LPTW from July 2022-July 2023.
