{{Short description|New Zealand playwright, actor and theatre director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2020}}
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'''Ralph McCubbin Howell''' is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright and actor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Playmarket|url=http://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/ralph-mccubbin-howell|website=Playmarket New Zealand|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> Howell was the recipient of the 2014 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ralph McCubbin Howell wins Bruce Mason Playwrighting award|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1411/S00483/ralph-mccubbin-howell-wins-2014-bruce-mason-award.htm|website=scoop.co.nz|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> His work ''The Devil's Half Acre'' was commissioned and produced by the 2016 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Coleman|first1=Ewen|title=Review, The Devil's Half Acre|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/77730330/nz-fest-review-the-devils-halfacre|accessdate=23 April 2016|publisher=The Dominion Post}}</ref>
Howells has a BA (Honours) in Theatre & English at Victoria University of Wellington. He also trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (UK).<ref name=":0" />
Howell often performs as an actor in his own work, with roles in many initial productions of his plays including ''The Bookbinder'',<ref>{{cite news|last1=Atkinson|first1=Laurie|title=The Bookbinder|url=http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=6726|accessdate=23 April 2016|publisher=The Dominion Post}}</ref> ''The Devil's Half Acre'', ''The Road That Wasn't There'',<ref>{{cite book|last1=McCubbin Howell|first1=Ralph|title=Here / Now|date=2015 |publisher=Playmarket|isbn=978-0-908607-59-4|pages=221–269|edition=first}}</ref> ''Broken River'', and ''The Engine room''.
Howell is the co-director along with Hannah Smith of the theatre company Trick of the Light.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.trickofthelight.co.nz/aboutus |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Trick of the Light }}</ref> Their play ''The Road That Wasn't There'' won Howell an Outstanding New NZ Play in 2013 and Smith the Most Promising Director at the Wellington Theatre Awards (2023).<ref name=":0" />
==Awards== * 2014 – Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bruce Mason Playwright Awards|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/43979/bruce-mason-playwriting-award|website=Te Ara Encclopedia of New Zealand|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> * 2014 – ''The BookBinder'': Best Theatre; Best in the Fringe; Tiki Tour Ready Award – New Zealand Fringe Festival<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kerr|first1=Brianne|title=New Zealand Fringe Festival Awards 2014|url=https://www.thebigidea.nz/connect/media-releases/2014/mar/139086-new-zealand-fringe-festival-awards-2014|website=The Big Idea|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> * 2013 – ''The Road That Wasn't There'': Outstanding New NZ Play<ref name=":0" /> * 2013 – Production of the Year – Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smythe|first1=John|title=Chapman Tripp Theatre awards 2013|url=http://www.theatreview.org.nz/news/news.php?id=1266|website=theatreview.org.nz|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref> Auckland Arts Festival Award – Auckland Fringe Festival 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://keepingupwithnz.com/2013/03/13/the-winners-auckland-fringe-awards-2013/|title=Keeping up with NZ}}</ref> * 2011 – Outstanding new New Zealand Playwright of the Year – Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards 2011<ref>{{cite web|last1=scoop|first1=media|title=Chapman Tripp Theatre awards 2011 award winners|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1112/S00050/chapman-tripp-theatre-awards-2011-winners.htm|website=scoop.co.nz|accessdate=23 April 2016}}</ref>
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