Mark Hedley Howett (born 25 June 1963) is an Australian director, designer and lighting designer of theatre, film and opera.
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Mark Howett, born 1963 in Perth, Australia, is a lighting designer and director for theatre Dance Opera and Film. The Rake Progress 1983 Director: Jim Sharman for Opera Australia was his first significant production design. He has worked with, among others, with the Directors Rufus Norris |The Country Girl 2010|, Gale Edwards | Buried Child, 2002| , Geoffrey Rush Popular Mechanicals, 1994 | Niel Armfield Royal Opera at Convent Garden Sweeny Todd, 2004 | and Francesca Zambello Opera Australia Love of Three Oranges, 2004 | Many of his works are or have toured internationally No Sugar, 1990 Up the Road, 1996 and As You Like It, 2000, Director: Neil Armfield, lighting design and Co-director | Norma 1999, Opera Australia, Director George Olivgy Lighting Design | Rites, 1999 and Amalgamate, 2006, The Australian Ballet & Bangarra Dance Theatre, Choreographer: Stephen Page, simulcasted by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, touring: City Center, New York, 1999, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 2009, Lighting Design | Crying Baby, 2003, Stalker Theatre Company, Director: Rachel Swain, touring: Cultura Inglesia Festival, Sao Paulo, Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, Lighting Design | Conversations With The Dead, 2003, Co-director and script development and Gulpilili, 2004, Lighting and Vision Design, Company B Belvoir St.
West End Lighting Design Credits include A Country Girl 2010 Director Rufus Norris. Dreamboats and Petticoats 2009 Director Bob Thompson Bill Kenwright | A Daughter is a Daughter 2009 Director Roy Marsden | Three Days In May 2011 Director Alan Strachan.
Awards: Robert Helpmann Award for Cloudstreet, Director: Neil Armfield, 2002, Lighting Design (touring e.g. Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; The National Theatre, UK; Kennedy Centre, Washington; Theater Spektakel, Zürich and nationally in Australia). Robert Helpman Award as „Best Presented Concert“ for Kura Tunga, Australian Arts Orchestra, Director: Patrick Nolan, 2005 Melbourne Concert Hall, Mark was responsible for Lighting Design, Visual Effects, Concept, Directing, Camera and Editor for the movie Kura Tunga, as part of the production. Greenroom Award 2006 Best Lighting Design for The Love of three Oranges, 2004, Opera Australia, Director: Francesca Zambello.Lighting Design. Greenroom Award 2009 for Roadkill, Splintergroup, 2009, Lighting Design Venice Biennale.
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For Company B, he has designed
For Opera Australia, he has designed
For The Australian Ballet, he has designed
For Bill Kenwright LTD, he has designed
Helpmann Award 2003 Best lighting design Cloudstreet
Green Room Award 2005 Best lighting design for Opera The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
Helpmann Award 2005 Best presented concert Kura Tunga
Green Room Award 2009 Best lighting design for Contemporary Dance Roadkill
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC feature Artist in Profile on the Sunday Arts Show 2006.