Jane Howell

Jane Howell (15 Aug 1935) is an English theatre and television director. She is known for directing six television plays of the BBC Television Shakespeare series in the 1980s: The Winter's Tale (1981), Henry VI, Part 1 (1983), Henry VI, Part 2 (1983), Henry VI, Part 3 (1983), Richard III (1983), and Titus Andronicus (1985). Howell was born in London but spent her early years in Somerset, living with her mother and paternal grandparents in a hamlet in the Mendips. Her father was a London policeman and the family lived in Wandsworth, London, after the war. Howell attended Bristol University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.