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About Mark Howett
- Western Australian Mark Howett is a 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 (Stuttgardt), Theater Spektacle (Zurich), and the Barbican Theatre London.
- He recently directed and conceived a German and Austrlian 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.
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