27 Facts About Tina Howe

Mabel Davis "Tina" Howe was an American playwright.

Tina Howe's plays won numerous awards, including the 1998 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for Pride's Crossing, which was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Mabel Davis Tina Howe was born in Manhattan on November 21,1937.

Tina Howe was the author of the three-volume history, A World History of Our Own Times.

Tina Howe's aunt, Helen Howe, was a successful monologist and novelist.

Tina Howe graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, in 1959.

When Tina Howe saw Eugene Ionesco's La Cantatrice Chauve at the Theatre de la Huchette, "It changed my life", she said.

Tina Howe started teaching high school in Monona Grove, Wisconsin, while her husband was doing graduate work and then in Bath, Maine, which is where she said she learned her craft through running the school's drama department, a position she agreed to take if they would produce her plays.

Tina Howe would develop in later works, sometimes artfully, sometimes clumsily, but always in a style that was distinctively her own.

Tina Howe herself won an Obie Award in 1983 for distinguished playwriting for her plays The Art of Dining, Museum and Painting Churches.

Tina Howe received the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play in 1998 for this play.

Tina Howe wrote English translations of Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and The Lesson, which were produced at the Atlantic Theater Company in September 2004.

Tina Howe provided the text for the interdisciplinary work Cheri, conceived, directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke, which opened Off-Broadway in a Signature Theatre Company production at the Pershing Square Signature Center-Irene Diamond Stage on November 19,2013, in previews.

Tina Howe's plays have been produced in regional theatres in the United States, such as Louisville, Los Angeles, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Annapolis, Maryland and San Diego, as well as in London.

Tina Howe's plays have premiered in venues such as the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville the Public Theater, and the Second Stage Theatre.

Tina Howe had taught master classes at New York University, UCLA, Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon.

Tina Howe was a Visiting Professor of playwriting and Playwright in Residence at Hunter College in New York City, retiring in 2015.

Tina Howe was the head of the two year MFA playwriting program which began in 2010.

Tina Howe was a member of the council of the Dramatists Guild of America from 1990.

Several of her works can be read in the volumes Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays by Tina Howe and Approaching Zanzibar and Other Plays.

Tina Howe's papers are held by the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton Library.

Tina Howe was married to historian Norman Levy from 1961 until his death in 2022.

Tina Howe taught American History at the University at Albany from 1967 to 1973.

Tina Howe died in Manhattan on August 28,2023, at age 85, from complications of a hip fracture sustained in a fall.

Tina Howe received a Rockefeller Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

Tina Howe received the William Inge Theatre Festival Award in 2005.

Tina Howe was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for 2017.