Mark Howett

Mark Hedley Howett (born 25 June 1963) is an Australian director, designer and lighting designer of theatre, film and opera.

Biography

In 1981 he observed the lighting course at the Yale School of Drama New York. The Opera Australia production of The Rake's Progress was his first major design with director Jim Sharman. He has since worked with many Australian and International theatre, film, dance and opera companies. Numerous productions have toured extensively in Australia and overseas. Highlights include the lighting for Australian Ballet and Bangarra Dance Theatre production of “Rites”, which was simulcast nationally on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and toured to New York City Centre´s in 1999. “Cloudstreet”, directed by Neil Armfield, won Howett the Robert Helpmann Award for lighting design. in 2002, toured to New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Royal National Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, Zurich and nationally in Australia. He has designed musicals like Evita or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber for Bill Kenwright Productions.

Some of the companies he has designed for

• Opera Australia
• The Australian Ballet
• Queensland Theatre Company
• Sydney Theatre Company
• Melbourne Theatre Company
• Black Swan Theatre Company
• Company B
• Bangarra Dance Theatre
• Sasha Waltz
• Royal Opera Covent Garden
• Auckland Opera
• Western Australian Opera
• State Theatre Company of South Australia
• Adelaide Festival of Arts
• Bill Kenwright LTD*Bill Kenwright Productions
• Schauspielhaus Köln

[*PVC Tanz Freiburg*][1]

For Company B, he has designed

• No Sugar
• As You Like It
• David Gulpilil
• Cloudstreet
• Dead Heart
• Aliwa

For Opera Australia, he has designed

• The Rake's Progress
• Norma
• The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
• Il Trovatore

For The Australian Ballet, he has designed

• Rites
• Amalgamate

For Bill Kenwright LTD, he has designed

• Evita
• Dreamboats and Petticoats
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Blood Brothers

Film

• 2006 Gangu Mama on Australian Broadcasting Corporation starring David Noombingara

• 2007 Studieren fuer zwei for Humboldt University Berlin, Germany starring Mary Endo and Marc Iancu

• 2007 Dreams for Schauspielhaus Koeln Heute im Raum Lumina

• 2007 Edgar´s amazing pickle show for modern dance-theatre Edgar

Awards

Australian

Helpmann Award 2003 Best lighting design Cloudstreet

Green Room Award 2005 Best lighting design for Opera The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)

Helpmann Award 2005 Best presented concert Kura Tunga

Green Room Award 2009 Best lighting design for Contemporary Dance Roadkill

Australian Television Features

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC feature Artist in Profile on the Sunday Arts Show 2006.

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