Hannah Elizabeth Howard Biography

Ms. Howard is delighted to be a member of The New Jersey Repertory Company. A native of Planet Earth (via Miami, FL and Wilmington, DE, Richmond/Virginia Beach, VA and currently Ocean Twp, NJ), Hannah has been seen locally working with The Two River Theatre Co, African Globe Theaterworks, and The Dunbar Repertory Company. Her theatre credits include: Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer Shakespeare Festival), Nanyel in KONVERGENCE (ZWG Repertory Co.), the ladies in green, red, purple, and blue in FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF (African Globe Theatreworks, Dunbar Repertory Co., ZWG Repertory Co.,The Player's Guild), Woman 2 in Machinal (Two River Theatre Co.) and Sindela in The Oldest Story Ever Told (Virginia Stage Company).   Her film and TV credits include: Getting to Know You, Summer of Sam, The New Detectives, Love is Blind, Navy SEAL's, The Quest, and The Shadow Conspiracy.   She is an alumna of Virginia Commonwealth University and the Governor's School of the Arts.  Ms. Howard can also be seen in poetry spots (Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Verse for Verse, Groove Drops) as her alter-ego, the Obsidian Goddess dropping verbal knowledge for the new millennium.  A published writer, she is also working on a children's book entitled "The Christmas Coat".  She looks forward to working with the New Jersey Repertory Co. and eventually being goddess supreme of the known universe.