Spencer Howard

Spencer is an educator, playwright, author, writer, producer, and CEO/Artistic Director of LearningTree Productions LLC. He is a former talented theater teacher and Founding Fellow of the Louisiana A+ Schools as well as a skilled arts integration workshop facilitator. Having performed in numerous theater productions nationwide, he was nominated Best Actor for his performance in the one-man show, Satchmo at The Waldorf. He has written numerous plays with his plays Dew Drop Inn and The Spirit of the Drum earning a playwrighting fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His critically acclaimed play Freedom Summer has been produced by numerous theater companies and his plays focusing on teen health issues, Somebody Should Have Said Something addressing teen dating violence and his play Bad Decisions highlighting teen drinking and driving toured throughout Louisiana. His book, Theater in the Classroom, provides a blueprint for teachers, with no theater experience, a pathway for integrating theater arts into their curriculum. He is also writer and producer of the critically acclaimed documentary short film, Africans on the Mississippi - Cuttin Cane, selected for screenings at nine film festivals winning Best Web Series, Best TV Pilot and Best Editing. He is currently writer and producer of the upcoming five-part docu-series, Africans on The Mississippi, exploring the African impact on life along the Mississippi River and the African American connection to water, documenting four African American communities along the Mississippi River from New Orleans, Louisiana to Natchez, Mississippi with episode five featuring an African American families return to their ancestral home in Guinea Bissau. Filming is scheduled to begin in February 2023.