Howard Sherman is a theatre administrator, writer, and advocate. He has been executive director of the American Theatre Wing and O’Neill Theatre Center, managing director of Geva Theatre, general manager of Goodspeed Musicals and public relations director of Hartford Stage. He has also held administrative positions with the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays. Since 2012, he has been the US columnist for The Stage Newspaper in London, and in 2018 was named Contributing Editor of Stage Directions magazine. His writing has appeared in Slate, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the Guardian, Los Angeles Times and American Theatre Magazine. He was cited as one of the Top 40 Free Speech Defenders in 2014 by the National Coalition Against Censorship and received the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund’s ＂Defender＂ Award in 2015. A native of New Haven Connecticut and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he resides in New York with his wife, producer Lauren Doll.