Tina Howe

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Tina Howe (born 1937 in New York City) is an American playwright. She is the daughter of CBS broadcast journalist Quincy Howe, the granddaughter of biographer Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe and the great-granddaughter of the first Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Howe graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York. She is married to historian Norman Levy.

She is best known for her plays Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances; the latter received a Tony Award nomination for best play in 1987.

She currently teaches at Hunter College in New York City and has been a member of the council of The Dramatists Guild of America since 1990. In June of 2006 she traveled to Paris as a guide for students studying abroad. In Paris they studied the work of Ionesco and created short works of their own based on their experience in Paris.

[edit] Plays by Tina Howe

  • The Nest
  • Birth and After Birth
  • Museum
  • The Art of Dining
  • Painting Churches
  • Coastal Disturbances
  • Approaching Zanzibar
  • One Shoe Off
  • Pride's Crossing (1997)
  • Skin Deep (2007)
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