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Mark Hedley Howett (born 25 June 1963) is an Australian director, designer and lighting designer of theatre, film and opera.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EnlIGHTnING Design Mark Howett )〕 ==Biography== Mark Howett, born 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, is a director for theatre, dance, opera and film, having started his career initially as a lighting designer. Since 1979, Mark Howett has worked with many Australian and international theatre, film, dance, and opera companies. He has directed and designed with companies such as: ➢ Australian Broadcasting Commission ➢ Opera Australia ➢ Royal National Theatre ➢ The Royal Opera at Covent Garden ➢ The Australian Ballet ➢ Sydney Theatre Company ➢ Company B at Belvoir St Theatre ➢ Bangarra Dance Theatre ➢ Adelaide Festival ➢ The Auckland Opera THEATRE Howett has collaborated with many talented directors such as Neil Armfield, Gale Edwards, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sharman, George Ogilvy and Francesca Zambello. He recently directed a dance theatre piece which was a German and Australian collaboration with (Animal Farm Collective ) called “Be A Good Little Soldier” which opened in Berlin in 2013. Mark also directed (Deckchair Theatre Company )’s production of “Strategy of Two Hams” starring Kelton Pell. He was Assistant Director on “Conversations with the Dead” for Company B Belvoir, and was part of the collaboration team that re-worked the original script. He was also Assistant Director and designed the lighting and vision for Company B’s production of “Gulpilili” starring David Gulpillil, directed by Neil Armfield. Mark was also one of the Artistic Directors that developed the opening ceremony, “Kula Pulti”, for the Adelaide Festival in 2000. He designed a twenty-meter fire sculpture and devised the ceremony for an audience of twenty thousand. Making the set and lighting design for “The Island” for Black Swan State Theatre Company gave Mark the chance to work with acclaimed South African Director Jerry Mofokeng during 2004. Mark has designed the lighting for many productions that have toured extensively in Australia and overseas. “Cloudstreet”, which Howett won the Robert Helpmann Award for Lighting Design 2002, toured to New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Theatre London and The Kennedy Centre Washington, Zurich, and nationally in Australia. Mark designed the lighting for the Royal Opera at Convent Garden’s production of “Sweeney Todd”. Mark’s lighting for Opera Australia’s production of “For the Love of Three Oranges”, directed by Francesca Zambello, toured in 2007. Redesigning the set and Lighting Design of “Il Trovatore” for Opera Australia was a chance to work with the paintings of Sydney Nolan. Over the years Mark has made many collaborative pieces with traditional people from all over his country. In 2003 Mark designed the lighting for the international tour of “Crying Baby” for (Stalker Theatre Company ), working with the traditional people of Arnhem Land. Howett designed the lighting for Australian Ballet and Bangarra’s production of “Rites”, which was simulcast nationally on the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and toured to New York’s City Centre in 1999, also playing later at the Paris Opera House. FILM Mark directed and co-wrote a training film for Humboldt University Berlin called “Studiern fur zwei und Mehr” that won the German Foreign Affairs award for best training film for overseas students. In 2005, Mark directed and co-wrote the Australian Broadcast Commission short film “Gangu Mama” as part of the Deadly Yarns initiative. Mark most recently directed and conceived an improvised short feature “Greenhead” for Push Films in Australia. He has also written his first feature “Be a Good little Soldier,” a family saga about the return of a war veteran and how that impacts on his family and community. “Kura Tunga” was a highlight for Mark in 2005, working as Cinematographer, Lighting and Vision Designer with the Australian Arts Orchestra. The production won the Robert Helpmann Award for Best Presented Concert. LIST OF PRODUCTIONS The Rake Progress 1983 Director: Jim Sharman for Opera Australia was his first significant production design. He has worked with the Directors Rufus Norris |The Country Girl 2010|, Gale Edwards | Buried Child, 2002|, Geoffrey Rush Popular Mechanicals, 1994 | Neil Armfield Royal Opera at Convent Garden Sweeney Todd, 2004 | and Francesca Zambello Opera Australia Love of Three Oranges, 2004 | Many of his works have toured internationally: No Sugar, 1990 Up the Road, 1996 and As You Like It, 2000, Director: Neil Armfield, lighting design and Co-director | Norma 1999, Opera Australia, Director George Ogilvy Lighting Design | Rites, 1999 and Amalgamate, 2006, The Australian Ballet & Bangarra Dance Theatre, Choreographer: Stephen Page, simulcasted by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, touring: City Center, New York, 1999, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 2009, Lighting Design | Crying Baby, 2003, Stalker Theatre Company, Director: Rachel Swain, touring: Cultura Inglesia Festival, São Paulo, Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, Lighting Design | Conversations With The Dead, 2003, Co-director and script development and Gulpilili, 2004, Lighting and Vision Design, Company B Belvoir St. West End Lighting Design Credits include: A Country Girl 2010 Director Rufus Norris. Dreamboats and Petticoats 2009 Director Bob Thompson Bill Kenwright | A Daughter is a Daughter 2009 Director Roy Marsden | Three Days In May 2011 Director Alan Strachan. See his website mhowett.com 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Howett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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