Scholarship

Howard’s New Yorker essay on playwright Eugene O’Neill was cited in the 2019 first prize award he was given by the Society for Features Journalism.

He has served on panels and lectured on O’Neill on public radio, in schools, and at universities, and he actively writes about theatre, film, literature, and television for various publications.

Howard began his scholarly pursuits working in the Dramaturgy office at The Hartford Stage Company, in the Literary Department at The Williamstown Theater Festival,  as a script reader at Manhattan Theater Club, and at Vassar College, where he received a BA in Dramatic Literature, studying with the renowned Strindberg authority and translator Evert Sprinchorn.

From 1997 to 2015, Howard was the primary research assistant to biographers Barbara Gelb and the late Arthur Gelb on their seminal work on playwright Eugene O'Neill, working closely with them on the groundbreaking works O'Neill: Life With Monte Cristo, and its forthcoming sequel. He also worked with Arthur Gelb on his memoir City Room.

Hear a podcast of Howard discussing O’Neill on WNPR here.