Tina Howe children: Meet Dara Howe & Eben Howe

The well-known writer Tina Howe, whose works included the often produced plays Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances, passed away yesterday from natural causes following a brief illness brought on by complications from a hip fracture she had just incurred in an accident. At 85 years old, the two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Her longtime agent Patrick Herold made the announcement of her passing.

Howe, a native of New York City, attended Sarah Lawrence College, Teacher’s College at Columbia University, Chicago Teachers College, and the Sorbonne University in Paris to study philosophy before making her mainstream stage debut in 1981 with Second Stage Off Broadway’s production of Painting Churches. The play, which takes place in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and explores the relationship between an artist and her aging parents, was a huge hit and received an Obie Award.

Tina Howe children: Meet Dara Howe & Eben Howe

Howe was wed to historian Norman Levy, who from 1967 to 1973 taught American history at the University of Albany. Eben Levy (and wife Cate Latting) and Dara Rebell (and husband Joshua Rebell) were the couple’s two children.

Howe has been a member of the Dramatists Guild council since 1990. Before joining the faculty at Hunter College as a visiting professor in 1990, he taught at New York University, Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon, and UCLA. In 2010, he served as playwright-in-residence to help launch the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting.

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