Phillip Howze is a playwright and theater maker whose works include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). His plays have been seen and developed at American AF Festival, Bay Area Playwrights, Clubbed Thumb, Lincoln Center Education, New York Theater Workshop, Page 73, PRELUDE, Public Theater/NYSF, San Francisco Playhouse, Sundance Theater Institute, Theatre Masters, and Yale Cabaret. He is currently a Lucas Artist Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center, a Resident Writer at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3, and was recently named Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University’s new Theater, Dance & Media program. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Fellowship Statement

Fellowship is a noun. Among its meanings are communion and companionship.  In a year of unfathomable loss, collective grievance and individual grief, when we have been necessarily distanced from each other, thoughts of fellowship could rightly feel like a throwback, or frivolity. Often for theater artists, fellowship has served as a friendly harbinger: a herald of hope, company and good humor. How might fellowship serve this same cause today? Not to commiserate with the times, but to imagine and commune in renewed ways. To wonder and refashion old words into new worlds. Together, to remember the meaning of things.  

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan