{"id":45,"date":"2017-11-01T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:23:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74\" src=\"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2108-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2108-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2108-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2108-1024x857.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_2108.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>HOPE \u00a0JUBER<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hope Juber was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her first professional entertainment experience was playing a recurring role as Greg Brady&#8217;s girlfriend, Rachel, on<i> The Brady Bunch<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">After graduating college with a BA in Theater she joined her father, Sherwood Schwartz (famed creator of <i>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<\/i> and<i> The Brady Bunch<\/i>), as a writer. She quickly became a story editor at Paramount TV working on situation comedies. During a brief hiatus she went to New York where she met and subsequently married <i>Paul McCartney <\/i>&amp; <i>Wings\u2019<\/i> guitarist Laurence Juber. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She continued writing, penning episodes for <i>The New Munsters<\/i>, the animated series <i>Little Shop <\/i>and material for <i>Elvira, Mistress of the Dark<\/i>. Hope soon wanted to combine her comedy writing with Laurence&#8217;s rock and roll music, and one day while caring for the first of their two babies, she became inspired. She created a comedy rock and roll band called <i>The Housewives<\/i> which played at rock and comedy clubs around LA, as well as regular appearances on national TV. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hope then focused on writing musicals, penning four for The Storybook Theater of Los Angeles. With Laurence, she then wrote the score to <i>Gilligan&#8217;s Island:The Musical<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She has produced more than two dozen of Laurence&#8217;s solo guitar albums, including the ever-popular <i>LJ Plays The Beatles<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She co-wrote the third Brady Bunch movie <i>The Brady Bunch in The White House<\/i> with her brother Lloyd, and went on to an Emmy nomination for the <b>TV Land<\/b> special <i>Still Brady After All These Years<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hope\u2019s musical <i>It\u2019s The Housewives! <\/i>enjoyed a very successful L.A.run, as did<i> A Very Brady Musical<\/i>, for which she co-wrote both book and score and which earned her the &#8220;Best Author&#8221; ADA award. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Hope\u2019s innovative play <i>Without Annette <\/i>had extended runs at The Whitefire Theatre and Theatre West in Los Angeles and is published by Broadway Licensing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2017, she reinvented <i>The Housewives <\/i>as <i>The Nasty Housewives <\/i>for <i>RESisters, <\/i>an album of protest songs inspired by the madness of the current political scene. It also features\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Marcella Detroit, singer and, co-writer of Eric Clapton\u2019s mega-hit \u2018Lay Down Sally.\u2019 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201dOne of the most important albums of the year!&#8221; &#8211;<b> Spill Magazine<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hope co-wrote Hallmark&#8217;s highly-rated 2024 Christmas movie <em>Holiday Crashers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Family:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Daughter<i> <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilsey.com\">Ilsey<\/a> is a songwriter with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ilsey_Juber\"><span class=\"s2\">credits<\/span><\/a> including Beyonc\u00e9, Miley Cyrus, Sean Mendez, Major Lazer, Linkin\u2019 Park and Kelly Clarkson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Daughter Nico&#8217;s musical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.millennialsarekillingmusicals.com\"><em>Millenials Are Killing Musicals <\/em><\/a>\u00a0ran off-Broadway in the spring of 2023. She&#8217;s also the founder of a nonprofit <i>Thrive Survive <\/i> to provide resources to young adult cancer survivors: http:\/\/www.thrivesurvive.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOPE \u00a0JUBER Hope Juber was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her first professional entertainment experience was playing a recurring role as Greg Brady&#8217;s girlfriend, Rachel, on The Brady Bunch. After graduating college with a BA in Theater she joined her father, Sherwood Schwartz (famed creator of Gilligan&#8217;s Island and The Brady Bunch), as a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/?page_id=45\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopejuber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}