Hope Azeda is one of the leading figures in contemporary Rwandan theatre. She is the founder and artistic director of Mashirika Performing Arts and Media company, a leading theatre company in Rwanda. Under her direction, the group collaboratively created Africa's hope, which was performed in Kigali at the 10th-anniversary commemoration of the genocide, and also at the G8 World Summit in Edinburgh in 2005. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the creative director for the 20th genocide commemoration in 2014. In addition to her theatre work, she served as a casting director for the films Sometimes in April, Shake Hands with the Devil, Beyond the Gates, White Light, Africa United and Our Lady of the Nile. Hope is also currently the curator of UBUMUNTU ARTS FESTIVAL. Hope is also a Fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative ALI-ASPEN-Institute. She was recently honored as a laureate of the John. P. McNulty prize 2018, awarded a lifetime award by MAAFA and also the winner of the continental award in the category of arts and culture 2018/19 by CEO Global. Hope graduated from the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.