Hope Campbell Gundlah joined CATF as their Grant Writer in February 2025. She relocated to the DC area from Chicago, where she served for three years as the Marketing & Communications Coordinator at A Red Orchid Theatre and two years as the Grant Writer at Perceptions Theatre.

Originally from Massachusetts, Hope earned her degrees in Theatre & Performance Studies and English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago (BA 2020). During her studies, she also served as an Undergraduate Research Fellow in Dramaturgy at Court Theatre and as the Assistant to the Director of the Youth Ensemble at The Revival.

Hope continues to work as an actor, playwright, and voiceover artist. She has performed with numerous companies, including Silver Spring Stage, A Red Orchid Theatre, Violet Surprise, Possibilities Theatre, Underscore Theatre, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She is represented for stage, screen, and voiceover by Grossman & Jack Talent. Her plays have won the Olga & Paul Menn Playwriting Award and the Sherwood Collins Playwriting Award and have received festival readings and productions at A Red Orchid Theatre, Beverly Arts Center, Accidental Shakespeare Company, and StageQ Theatre.

In her free time, Hope enjoys singing, doing puzzles, playing roleplaying games, and watching other people play roleplaying games.