Teresa Howard
Playwright and Lyricist
Teresa Howard first appeared on stage at the Edinburgh Festival in Tudor Gates musical VAMP, with Peter Polycarpou, in 1979.
Teresa’s stage plays, include: Rev. Luke’s Useful Show – Old Fire Station Oxford; Stonefist - Soho Theatre; Grock – Chichester Festival; Music on the Metro - Winchester and Bader and Doolittle - a commission for JABOD Productions. Most of these plays include songs with her original lyrics. Her first full length musical Possessed with music composed by Steven Edis, was showcased in June 2006 at Greenwich Theatre. Clive Paget directed the showcase, with Anna Francolini and Peter Polycarpou taking the leading roles. Teresa has also just completed a play for BBC Radio called Pandora’s Box.
She spent a year at Winchester School of Art as Resident Writer on a Fellowship, taught playwriting at the Holborn Centre of Performing Arts, and was a reader for the Royal Court Theatre.
For a number of years she was a Literary Agent representing the work of new playwrights and scriptwriters as well as the estates of H.E.Bates, D.H.Lawrence, John Wyndham, William Saroyan and Dorothy Parker.
Teresa’s work for TV includes Protectors, a series commissioned by Talisman Films, research for a film on the life of Thomas Paine for Red Door Films and scriptwriting for Towser Films. She has also worked as a critic and presenter for BBC World Service.
She recently branched out into journalism, writing “family” and “travel” articles for The Spectator, The Guardian, Stephanie Calman’s Bad Mothers’ Club website and a column in a local magazine.
Agent:
Micheline Steinberg Associates
tel: +44 20 7631 1310
web: www.steinplays.com