Silas Howard

Profile

Silas Howard is a director and writer focused on telling honest narratives filled with groundbreaking characters. His credits include executive producing and directing on FX’s Emmy-nominated series POSE, as well as directing Sundance premiere and IFC Films internationally distributed film A KID LIKE JAKE. His television credits include directing on multiple seasons of Emmy award-winning TRANSPARENT, Peabody award-winning DICKINSON, THE FOSTERS, FAKING IT, THIS IS US, HIGH MAINTENANCE, TALES OF THE CITY, and Josh Thomas’s EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE OKAY.

He was a founding member of the seminal queer punk band Tribe 8, co-founder of legendary San Francisco cafe and performance space Red Dora’s Bearded Lady, and a 2015 Guggenheim fellow.

His latest feature, called DARBY AND THE DEAD—think MEAN GIRLS meets SIXTH SENSE—is out December 2 on Hulu.