Director

Annie J. Howell is a screenwriter and film director. Her most recent credit is for YELLOW ROSE, starring Tony-nominee Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”), which she wrote with director Diane Paragas. That film is the recipient of eight Grand Jury Prizes for Best Narrative Feature as well as two Audience Awards. YELLOW ROSE is distributed by Sony Pictures Worldwide. Howell also wrote the screenplay for LITTLE BOXES, starring Melanie Lynskey (“Yellowjackets”) and the late Nelsan Ellis (“True Blood”), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, sold to Netflix, and is now streaming everywhere via Tribeca Films. Howell has co-written and co-directed two features with Lisa Robinson: SMALL, BEAUTIFULLY MOVING PARTS starring Anna Margaret Hollyman (WHITE REINDEER), Broadway legend Mary Beth Peil (“Dawson’s Creek”) and André Holland (MOONLIGHT), and CLAIRE IN MOTION starring Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”). Each film premiered at SXSW and played festivals, select theaters, and streamers. She is the recipient of the Sloan Feature Film Prize, an IFP Emerging Narrative Award for Best Feature, a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony residency, and a San Francisco Film Society/Rainin Foundation grant, amongst other awards. She has taught at Duke University, The New School, Ohio University (tenured), NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Vermont College of Fine Arts and The City College of New York. Howell grew up in the Arizona desert and is an alum of Whitman College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a life-long theater-goer and is writing her first stage musical.