Ralph McCubbin Howell is a Wellington-based New Zealand playwright and actor.
[2] His work The Devil's Half Acre was commissioned and produced by the 2016 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts.
[3] Howells has a BA (Honours) in Theatre & English at Victoria University of Wellington.
[4] Howell often performs as an actor in his own work, with roles in many initial productions of his plays including The Bookbinder,[5] The Devil's Half Acre, The Road That Wasn't There,[6] Broken River, and The Engine room.
Howell is the co-director along with Hannah Smith of the theatre company Trick of the Light.