Ralph McCubbin Howell is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright and actor. [1] Howell was the recipient of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. [2] His work The Devil's Half Acre was commissioned and produced by the 2016 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts. [3]
Howells has a BA (Honours) in Theatre & English at Victoria University of Wellington. He also trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (UK). [4]
Howell often performs as an actor in his own work, with roles in many initial productions of his plays including The Bookbinder, [5] The Devil's Half Acre, The Road That Wasn't There, [6] Broken River, and The Engine room.
Howell is the co-director along with Hannah Smith of the theatre company Trick of the Light. [4] Their play The Road That Wasn't There won Howell an Outstanding New NZ Play in 2013 and Smith the Most Promising Director at the Wellington Theatre Awards (2023). [4]
