Ralph McCubbin Howell

Ralph is a Wellington based theatre maker who grew up in Waikari in Te Waipounamu. He is co-founder of Trick of the Light Theatre for which he has written and performed in numerous productions, touring internationally with The Bookbinder, Beards! Beards! Beards!, The Road That Wasn’t There, and Tröll. He was a member of the NZ Young Shakespeare Company which performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 2005, and completed a BA (Hons) in Theatre & English at Victoria University of Wellington before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. He received a Masters in Scriptwriting at the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in 2018, and his accolades as playwright include the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award, and Outstanding New NZ Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards.