Ross Howard
Ross Howard's work has been seen in London (Theatre 503, Old Vic Tunnels, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Riverside Studios, Menier Gallery, Old Red Lion, Park Theatre, Finborough Theatre, Canal Cafe Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), New York City (Cherry Lane Theatre, Theatre Row, Access Theater and Urban Stages), Cork (Cork Arts Centre), Las Vegas (Onyx Theatre, Las Vegas Little Theatre, Nevada Conservatory Theatre), Minneapolis (Pillsbury House Theatre) and San Francisco (The Phoenix Theatre), and developed at Last Frontier Conference and Great Plains Theatre Conference.
In 2002, he was invited to join the Royal Court Theatre Young Writer's Group. In 2008, he received a Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Arthur and Esther was awarded “Best of Fringe” at Las Vegas Fringe Festival 2010, while No One Loves Us Here was a finalist for the New York Stage and Film Founders Award 2012. Frisky & The Panda Man was a winning finalist in the 38th Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2013. The following summer, Picture Ourselves in Latvia premiered off-Broadway and was listed in L Magazine as "Best of Theater 2014." In October 2016, Two of Us showcased off-Broadway alongside Arthur and Esther and his evening of short plays Our Walk Through the World. The Ross Howard Festival was in recognition of the three years spent as the Resident Playwright of New Light Theater Project. The Amazing Always received a public reading in New York at The Drama Book Shop in April 2018.
Recent projects include working with Dream Shark Films on an adaptation of his short play The Hankerbox, directed by Abbie Lucas. A dramatic work on the life and death of the former NFL player Mike Webster was created in collaboration with Dr. Randall Benson, a globally regarded behavioral neurologist. 12:52 The Mike Webster Story can next be seen at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre in June 2023.
Arthur and Esther, No One Loves Us Here, Picture Ourselves in Latvia, Two of Us and Our Walk Through the World are published by Samuel French.
Ross holds an M.F.A in Playwriting from UNLV and is a member of New Play Exchange, The Finborough Forum and has regularly tutored at the Actor's Centre in London. He now lives by the seaside in Whitstable, Kent.