HAUI™ (Howard J. Davis) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist creating cross-disciplinary work for stage, screen, and visual arts.
At the Canadian Opera Company, he became the youngest stage director in the company’s history, authoring the libretto and co-composing Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White with Sean Mayes. The work received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Opera/Musical and Outstanding Ensemble.
Other projects include MixedUp, Private Flowers, and Aunt Harriet. Originally trained in performance, HAUI is a former Shaw Festival company member, published by Playwrights Canada Press, a Chalmers Arts Fellow, and an alumnus of The Watermill Center with an upcoming residency at the Britten Pears Arts in the UK.
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what are people saying?
haui™ is a remarkable artist with a rainforest of creative ideas spawned from his individualism.
hollywood north magazine
"his insights and commitment to creativity and storytelling were invaluable to the continuity of the work we were doing."
tantoo cardinal, activist and actor
"howard, or "haui," as he positions himself, is a highly intelligent, witty, and talented artist with a huge repertoire of skills...this is an exceptionally professional young man who will make his name, and soon, with a vengeance. his talents are wide-ranging– and unique."
the late martha henry; order of canada, order of on; hon lld, phd, dhum, dfa.
