Mark Howett

Western Australian Mark Howett (born 1963) is an Australian director for theatre, dance, opera and film, having started his career initially as a lighting designer. He studied Theatre Design, specialising in Lighting Design at the School of Drama 1981, Yale University. Since 1979, Mark Howett has worked with many international theatre, film, dance, and opera companies. He was a senior creative on productions such as: Sweeney Todd, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Cabaret at Savoy Theatre West End, Evita at Dominion Theatre West End, A Country Girl at Apollo Theatre West End, Rites Bangarra and Australian Ballet at Paris Opera House, Cloudstreet Co B Belvoir at Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Secret River Sydney Theatre Co to name a few.

Mark is a co-creator of The Farm, which has toured his productions to festivals of Venice Biennial, Sydney, Perth, Singapore, Tanz im August Berlin, Theater Spektacle (Zurich), and the Barbican Theatre London. He recently directed and conceived a German and Australian collaborative dance theatre piece with the Farm Collective called “Good Little Soldier”. In 2005, he directed and co-wrote the ABC short film Gangu Mama as part of the Deadly Yarns initiative for the ABC. Kura Tunga was a highlight for Mark in 2005 working as Cinematographer Lighting and Vision Designer with the Australian Arts Orchestra; the production won the Robert Helpmann Award for Best Presented Concert.