Tina Howe

playwright, 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Tina Howe is an American playwright best known for her plays Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances. The latter received a Tony Award nomination for best play in 1987. She has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a Rockefeller grant, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship. She currently teaches playwrighting at Hunter College in New York City and has been a member of the council of The Dramatists Guild of America since 1990.