Donald Alfred Howarth (5 November 1931 – 24 March 2020) was a British playwright and theatre director. he was known locally and internationally for his West End theatre plays and on television, he also worked in South Africa at The Space Theatre, Cape Town.
Howarth trained at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School in Bradford, he worked in various repertory theatres around England before writing his first play, Sugar in the Morning, which was selected by George Devine for performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1959. Ian McKellen's first starring role in London's West End was in Howarth's third play, A Lily in Little India, and his fourth play, Three Months Gone starred Diana Dors.
