Tina Howe’s plays include “The Nest”, “Birth and After Birth”, “Museum”, “The Art of Dining”, “Painting Churches”, “Coastal Disturbances”, “Approaching Zanzibar”, “One Shoe Off”, “Pride’s Crossing”, “Such Small Hands”, “Rembrandt’s Gift” and new translations of Eugène Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” and “The Lesson” as well as a host of shorter plays. These works premiered at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Second Stage, The Old Globe Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, The Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Atlantic Theater Company. Her most recent play, “Chasing Manet”, opens at Primary Stages this spring. Among her many awards are an Obie for Distinguished playwriting, a Tony nomination for best Play, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Rockefeller Grant, two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Sidney Kingsley Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, two honorary degrees and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. A two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Miss Howe has been a Visiting Professor at Hunter College since 1990 and has also taught master classes at NYU, UCLA, Columbia and Carnegie Mellon. Her works can be read in numerous anthologies as well as in Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe, and Approaching Zanzibar and Other Plays, published by Theatre Communications Group and most recently her translations of Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" and "The Lesson", published by Grove Press. Miss Howe is proud to have served on the council of the Dramatists Guild since 1990.
AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT TINA HOWE
