Education

Betsy attended drama courses at New York University and Interlochen Arts Academy.

Career

Betsy has worked in a wide variety of positions, including as Santa’s elf at Macy's, speech writer for Ronald Reagan, hot dog street vendor, assistant to Stella Adler, nanny for New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, golf cart driver for Walter Cronkite’s Governor’s Island, publicist for the Dalai Lama, PSA producer for Lauren Hutton, tour coordinator for author Ann M. Martin, producer for Dr. Ruth, publicist for Ingrid Craven, and as an associate producer for the reopening of Ellis Island.

Despite her hectic schedule as a New York City stage actress, Betsy Howie found time to be a novelist and playwright. In collaboration with musician and lyricist Mary Murfitt, she wrote the book for the musical play Cowgirls, which opened off Broadway in 1996 to largely favorable reviews.

Howie turned to fiction with her debut novel, Snow. It was met with mixed reviews. While a Publishers Weekly reviewer criticized the novel for “silliness” and “sophomoric prattle,” a Library Journal contributor found the book “intriguing, imaginative, and compulsively readable.”

Achievements

• Betsy Howie is a well-known published author of children's books. Her most popular recent works are novels "Welcome Back to the Circus Hotel, Hollywood Divecchio!", "Family Solitaire" and plays "Big Stella", "Yours Truly". As an actress, she has performed throughout New York, in regional theatres around the country, and in numerous television commercials.

Works

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• book

  • Snow

    (A darkly comic, absurdist, and highly original story of o...)

    1998
  • Cowgirls 1999
  • Stamp Boredom Out This Summer

Connections

Betsy Howie is divorced.

coworker:

Mary Murfitt

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181