Melvyn Danguilan Escueta (January 26, 1945 - May 8, 1999) was a Filipino-American playwright who is best known as the author of the play Honey Bucket.

In 1973, Escueta founded the Asian American Theater Company with fellow playwright Frank Chin.

The play surrounds a Vietnam War veteran named Andy Bonifacio who is guilt-ridden after killing Vietnamese soldiers, whom he considers to be his Asian brothers.

The play was met with much acclaim, with one critic in The Sacramento Bee calling it "profoundly moving and disturbing" and "the best dramatic reminder I have seen... to come out of [Vietnam veterans'] experience".

Escueta also worked as a social worker, counseling incarcerated veterans, and taught both history and economics at San Francisco's Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.