A little info about my Hollywood career…

Biography

LIGIAH VILLALOBOS

Ligiah Villalobos is a Writer, Producer, Consultant, Educator and Lecturer.  She is best known for the independent feature film Under the Same Moon, (La Misma Luna), which she wrote and executive produced and was acquired by Fox Searchlight and TWC at Sundance. The movie was made for under $2M and earned over $23M worldwide. 

More recently, Villalobos was a Cultural Consultant on the Academy Award winning Pixar movie, COCO, and she wrote on two Netflix animated series, Super Monsters’ Monster Pets and StarBeam.

Villalobos co-wrote the Lifetime TV Movie, The Real MVP, produced by Queen Latifah and she was the Head Writer on Nick Jr.’s, Go, Diego! Go! for three seasons.  

Villalobos is currently executive producing 20 animated shorts for Dreamworks TV Animation, writing a scripted podcast for Sonoro Media, writing on the upcoming children’s show for PBS titled, Rosie’s Rules, and developing multiple TV and feature film projects with various studios and production companies. Her feature animated film Koati, which she co-wrote and is an Associate Producer was released theatrically in the Fall of 2021. 

Before becoming a writer/producer, Villalobos was both a network and studio executive – at the Walt Disney Company she launched eight children shows in seven countries, and then oversaw six prime time shows at The WB.

Villalobos is on the Board of Immigrant Defenders Law Center and on the Honorary Board of The Point Foundation, the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit.  She is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize and she received her MFA from Antioch University in Creative Writing.   

A little info about my teaching and lecturing career…

Ligiah Villalobos is committed to bringing more people of color, underrepresented voices, and women into the entertainment industry. To that end, she teaches at Cal State LA and has also taught at USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, LMU, and Colorado College. She also lectures around the world. 

In addition, she has been an advisor for multiple Sundance Institute Labs, Film Independent programs, Sesame Street Diversity Writing Initiative, NALIP, The Taipei Film Commission, and others.