Education
Betsy attended drama courses at New York University and Interlochen Arts Academy.
Betsy attended drama courses at New York University and Interlochen Arts Academy.
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.”
(A darkly comic, absurdist, and highly original story of o...)
1998Betsy Howie is divorced.