Zora Howard: Ten Questions
Zora Howard spring 2025

What was an early, memorable theatrical experience?

Watching Roslyn Ruff’s Lady M from the wings when I was ten years old.

 

What’s something you wish someone told you when you began your career? 

Do not begin work without some kind of signed contract, even if you have to write it yourself. Also, you will hear “this is the way it is done” a lot. Often the way it is done is a tired, worn-out, oppressive way of doing. So, yes, it’s important to learn the way it is done, and then know you can choose to do it differently.

 

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Zora Howard
Zora Howard

is a Harlem-bred writer and director. Plays: BUST, THE MASTER’S TOOLS (Wiener Festwochen; WTF), HANG TIME (The Flea), STEW (2021 Pulitzer finalist; P73), AtGN, and THE MOTIONS. Her work has been developed at MTC, Second Stage, The Lark, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and Cape Cod Theatre Project, among others.