Writer
DAVID HOWARD
FILM
THEATRE
FICTION
FYI…
David Howard is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, lyricist and, most recently, novelist. His most visible credit being DreamWork’s major feature film GALAXY QUEST (Story and Screenplay credit), for which he won a Nebula Award, a Hugo Award and a Silver Raven Award and which was recently acknowledged as #61 on the Writers Guild list of The All-Time 101 Funniest Screenplays. David has also worked in television. Credits include THE CARVER BROTHERS (series pilot), with Robert Deniro’s Tribeca Films for CBS (co-written with M.F. McDowell) and DEAD AND BREAKFAST (series pilot) for the WB. He has also collaborated on pieces for the live stage: FALLING FOR EVE (lyricist, based on his play Adam Alone) with book by Tony-winner Joe DiPietro and music by Bret Simmons, appeared Off-Broadway at the York Theatre. Other musicals (book and lyrics, with composer Bret Simmons) include THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST – A WILDE NEW MUSICAL and HAYFEVER THE MUSICAL. His new play, THE HIDDEN ONE, recently premiered at the Torrance Theatre Company. He finished this first novel PENUMBRA this year, soon to be published.
film
GALAXY QUEST - Comedy
TREK - Inspirational
Available Properties
THE ANSWER BOOK - MAGICAL REALISM COMEDY
An unassuming everyman comes into possession of his own personal Answer Book, magically giving him all the right things to do in the form of a numbered list each day. As he puzzles his way to enlightenment, his prospects skyrocket…and craziness happens.
I SPY WITH MY VIRTUAL EYE - ACTION COMEDY
A top-secret intelligence entity develops a “virtual agent,” that is, an android that appears indistinguishably human, piloted remotely by a support crew. When the dashing pilot is injured, and the geeky scientist must step in, a fantastical Cyrano story plays out in the world of espionage.
theatre
musicals
(Lyrics, with Tony-winning librettist Joe Dipietro and composer Bret Simmons.) God has placed Adam and Eve in Eden and all’s well until Eve bites the apple and Adam…doesn’t. Eden, we have a problem. Suddenly, plans for the human race are desperately off course in this romantic reimagining of the first couple. Theatremania called it a winsome blend of musical comedy and sweet romance.
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(Book and lyrics with composer Bret Simmons.) West Virginia governor Kathryn Cassidy is elected the first female president. Suddenly husband Russell, a non-political contractor, is choosing the china and serving tea. A fish-out-of-water story about an ordinary family in the most extraodinary circumstances. Emmy-winning actress Sally Struthers called it, “honest, compelling and hysterically funny!”
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(Book and lyrics with composer Bret Simmons.) A musical reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comedy of manners. The satire is even more biting, comedy more hilarious and the romance more soaring. Stage Scene LA awarded it the “Best New Musical in Los Angeles, 2023.”
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plays
THE HIDDEN ONE - Supernatural Drama
In a white-water rafting accident, teenager Josh Devlin experiences a Near Death Episode. Though he initially appears unharmed, it’soon apparent that something is not right. When time begins to disappear and people begin dying, it becomes clear that Josh was nearer to death than everyone first thought.
ELECTRIC ROSES - Drama
After a relationship marked by passion and abuse, Sara is leaving her husband Russ. ELECTRIC ROSES is a compelling examination of love, violence and the courage to walk away. Premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville and perfomed around the country. Published by Concord Theatricals.
fiction
PENUMBRA - A Novel
Alexander, an Angel of Death, comes for the soul of the dying Dan Cooper. He finds his way blocked by blood on the Cooper’s door frame (accidentally left there when his wife Anna has a run in with a thorn on a rose in their garden.) After a delicate “negotiation,” Anna finally allows Alexander to take her suffering husband.
A year passes. Alexander returns, having found Anna…unforgettable.
It’s nearly twenty years later. Alexander and Anna have settled in the suburbs and raised their teenage son, Malcolm, who has no idea what his father does for a living.
When a cheerleader at school suffers a near-fatal accident, Malcolm steps in the way of another angel’s appointed round, setting off a journey of discovery that leads Malcolm to Penumbra—the shadowy world between mortality and The Beyond..
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