Howard Ho is a playwright, composer, and sound designer. He was a 2016 Center Theatre Group Literary Fellow and a 2013 NY State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship recipient. He is currently a Finalist in the East West Players Musical Theatre Initiative to develop original Asian American musicals and the recipient of an EWP Playwriting Scholarship. His play Various Emporia was a semifinalist in the O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference He is a member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool and the Vagrancy Playwrights’ Group. His short works have been produced at Company of Angels and New Musicals, Inc.

He studied Musicology at UCLA, where he was an editor at The Daily Bruin, and Master of Professional Writing at USC, where he was an editor of the Southern California Review. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.