Congratulations Dickinson (Apple TV+) & Silas Howard For Peabody Award Win!
Congratulations Dickinson (Apple TV+) & Silas Howard For Peabody Award Win!
With Emmy Awards season coming up, congratulations are in order to the team of Apple TV+’s Dickinson and filmmaker Silas Howard on their prestigious Peabody Award win!
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez
Howard directed two episodes of the new TV series (Ep 105 – “I am afraid to own a Body” & Ep 106: “A brief, but patient illness”) created by Alena Smith.
A coming-of-age story starring Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Bumblebee, Ender’s Game, The Edge of Seventeen) as the American poet Emily Dickinson, Howard helped lend depth and texture to the show’s inspired exploration of its title character’s seldom-recognized queerness. The first trans filmmaker ever to direct an episode of Amazon Studio’s Transparent, Silas Howard is an award-winning director and writer with a singular gift for crafting widely untold or underrepresented stories. He served as both director and executive-producer for FX’s Pose about 1980’s New York ball culture, which earned him a GLAAD Award and Peabody Award, in addition to an Emmy.
Freeform’s Everything’s Gonna Be Okay finds Howard working to present an authentic and layered portrayal of people with autism – an endeavor that involves his close collaboration with Kayla Cromer, the first actor on the autism spectrum to play a lead role in a TV show. In addition to directing the 2018 feature film A Kid Like Jake (starring Claire Danes, Jim Parsons and Octavia Spencer) that had its premiere at Sundance, Howard’s credits also include series This Is Us, High Maintenance and the upcoming Grand Army on Netflix, drawing from his past experience in teaching at an at-risk youth shelter in Harlem. Howard got his start in filmmaking by teaming up with artist Harry Dodge to create a feature film in 2001 called By Hook or By Crook about their experience in San Francisco’s queer community. It premiered at Sundance Film Festival and won a host of prestigious awards (including the audience award at SXSW Film Festival and at Outfest). Howard then got his M.F.A. in film at UCLA, where he co-wrote a script for a biopic on jazz musician and trans pioneer Billy Tipton and went on to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, before making an auspicious leap into TV directing. Howard also happens to be a founding member of the seminal queer-punk band Tribe 8, having directed music videos for artists like Peaches and Justin Vivian Bond. He is currently at work on an eclectic lineup of projects, including an LGBTQ-focused horror movie, a film about the first exotic-dancers union in San Francisco, and a documentary on ball-culture icon and Paris Is Burning star Dorian Corey. In all of his ongoing TV and film work, Howard remains wholly committed to telling marginalized stories with nuance, complexity, and emotional truth.