Maria Manuela Goyanes

Maria Manuela Goyanes is the Artistic Director of LCT3 and Producer at Lincoln Center Theater. LCT3 in an initiative to bring new artists and new audiences to Lincoln Center Theater. Previously, she served as the Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, where she shepherded to Woolly to win the 2022 Tony Award (Best Musical, A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson), 11 Helen Hayes Awards, and tour multiple works nationally. Maria was named one of the 150 Most Powerful Women in Washington, DC, in both 2022 and 2023. Prior to Woolly, she worked for over 14 years at The Public Theater in NYC as the Director of Producing and Artistic Planning. There, Maria worked with countless leading theatre artists, including acclaimed productions such as Hamilton, Fun Home, and Passing Strange. From 2004 to 2012, Maria was the Executive Producer of Obie-winning 13P, a 13-member playwright collective that disrupted the endless cycle of new play development by mounting one play by each writer and then imploding. Maria is a first-generation Latina and native New Yorker, born and raised in Jamaica, Queens to parents who emigrated from the Dominican Republic and Spain.