Her debut play, STEW, premiered off-Broadway in February 2020 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
[1][4] She began writing poetry at a young age, and performed with the spoken word group The Strivers Row.
[1] She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the graduate acting program at the University of California, San Diego.
[9] The film follows Howard as Ayanna, a 17-year-old New Yorker who strikes up a summer romance with an artist in his twenties (Joshua Boone).
Writing for Elle, Candace Frederick called it "the kind of confident, remarkably vulnerable drama to which even veteran storytellers aspire.