HOWARD BARKER

(Scenic and Costume Designer, Co-Producer) was co-producer and set and costume designer of the original LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE and co-producer of the Jerry Herman/Tad Mosel musial MADAME APHRODITE, off Broadway. He also designed the sets and costumes for Cole Porter’s OUT OF THIS WORLD, and the out-of-town tryout of the English musical CHRYSANTHEMUM. Other off-Broadway credits include Mr. Besoyan’s BABES IN THE WOOD, as well asWHO'S HAPPY NOW, MISTRESSES AND MAIDENS, MEN IN WHITE, CAGES, HELLO OUT THERE, MAHONEY, HOTEL UNIVERSE, and the revue IN YOUR HAT, the genesis for LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE.

Howard has designed over forty plays and musicals in Regional and Stock theatre, including ten productions for the Washington D.C. Theatre Festival.

Motion pictures: CAROLINA SKELTONS, CLINTON AND NADINE, COME SPY WITH ME, DAYS IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE (Denmark), DREAMS DON'T DIE, PATERNITY, ROMANCING THE STONE (New York), SOJOURNER TRUTH and STOP THIEF!

Television: Over two hundred productions, including sets for operas, light operas, musicals, dramas, etc. for ABC, CBS and NBC. One of the most unique was FREE TO BE...A FAMILY, the ABC U.S./Soviet Satellite Spacebridge between the United States and Russia.