Howard has lit productions for companies including The Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court, Royal Opera, English National Opera, English National Ballet, Australian Opera, Kirov Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
His current work includes Mary Poppins at the Hippodrome in Bristol prior to London, Mamma Mia! on Broadway and in London, Las Vegas, Hamburg, Japan, Toronto and Australia, as well as on US Tour.
His work in the West End includes Suddenly Last Summer at the Albery, Oleanna at the Garrick, The Master Builder at the Albery, Ragtime at the Piccadilly, The Witches Of Eastwick at Drury Lane/Prince of Wales, The Seven Year Itch at the Queens, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Lyric, A Delicate Balance at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Black Comedy at the Comedy, Kat And The Kings at the Vaudeville, Cyrano De Bergerac at the Lyric, Matador at the Queens and Old Wicked Songs at the Gielgud. On Broadway his work includes Putting It Together and Kat And The Kings.
For the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has lit Henry VIII, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Merchant Of Venice, The Tempest, Timon Of Athens, Talk Of The City, The Prisoner's Dilemma and As You Like It. For the Royal National Theatre he has lit Private Lives, Look Back In Anger, Blue Remembered Hills, Sleep With Me and Finding The Sun/The Marriage Play. For the Donmar Warehouse, he has lit Fool For Love, The Fix, Tales From Hollywood, To The Green Fields Beyond, Privates On Parade and The Vortex.
His Opera and Dance work includes Il Trovatore, Aida, I Masnadieri and Otello for The Royal Opera; Beatrice And Benedict and Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci for Welsh National Opera and Opera Australia; Swan Lake and Romeo And Juliet for English National Ballet; Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at Sadler's Wells; Albert Herring for Opera North; The Elixir Of Love for English National Opera and The Makropulos Case and Nabucco For The Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Howard has been nominated four times as Best Lighting Designer in the Laurence Olivier Awards, and was the recipient of the 2001 Australian Green Room Award for his work on Mamma Mia!
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