COMPANY MEMBER

2026 TUTAlab: Cradle Will Rock (Director)
2025 TUTAlab: Cradle Will Rock (Director)
2021 TUTAlab: 1 Minute Project (Creator/Performer)
2020 Hedda Gabler (Assistant Director)

Jamal Howard is a Chicago-based director, choreographer, and producer with a focus on creating courageous and empathetic theatre. He was the 2023/24 Goodman Theatre Michael Maggio Directing Fellow, a member of the Theatre Communication Group’s 2024 Rising Leaders of Color Cohort, Co-Artistic Director of New American Folk Theatre, and a Company Member with TUTA Theatre. At TUTA Jamal most recently directed the TUTAlabs on The Cradle Will Rock. Select directing and choreography credits include Splish Splash, The Lizard y El Sol, English, A Christmas Carol, Highway Patrol (Goodman Theatre); Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Backstage Breckenridge Theatre); Doctor De Soto, The Wong Kids…, Splish Splash (Northwestern University); 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70s, Songs for a New World (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre); R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (National Tour); tick, tick… Boom! (Boho Theatre); The Apple Tree (Porchlight Music Theatre); Think Fast, Jordan Chase (Filament Theatre); Corduroy, The Wiz, Magic Tree House: Showtime with Shakespeare (Emerald City Theatre); The Wiz, The Mole Hill Stories (Children’s Theatre Madison). Jamal served as the Associate Artistic Director of Emerald City Theatre where he created inspiring productions that helped Chicago’s children creatively face the world. He is an alum of Loyola University Chicago. www.jamalhoward.com