Current and recent work includes: Mary Poppins (Broadway/Australia/ Holland ); MAMMA MIA! (London/ Broadway and Worldwide); Abigail's Party (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End); The Way of the World (Chichester Festival Theatre); Lady Windermere's Fan (Royal Exchange); The Bomb (Tricycle); Anna Christie (Donmar); Playboy of the Western World (Old Vic); Die Fledermaus (Welsh National Opera); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company); Strictly Gershwin and Swan Lake (English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre); Me and My Girl (Crucible Sheffield); Macbeth (West End/Broadway); Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll (Royal Court/West End/Broadway); Creditors (Donmar and New York); King Lear (Liverpool and Young Vic); Inherit the Wind, Complicit (Old Vic); Butley, Backbeat, Love Story, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Love Song, Guys & Dolls, Ragtime, Donkey's Years and Heroes (All West End); Love Story, The Music Man, Hay Fever and The Circle (Chichester Festival Theatre); In A Dark Dark House, The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot (Almeida) and Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! and Edward Scissorhands at Sadler's Wells and on tour in the UK and the US.
He was nominated for the 2012 Olivier Awards for his work on Anna Christie at the Donmar. Howard was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Designer in 2008. He has been twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Awards for Mary Poppins and Macbeth.