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name: "Silas Howard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/silas-howard"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T02:44:51.933970+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Silas Howard

Director. Born 1 January 2000 in Vermont (grew up).

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, Vermont (grew up)
- **Also known as:** Tribe 8, Lynn Flipper 

## Biography

Silas Howard is an American film and television director, writer, actor and musician. He grew up in Vermont and moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, where he played guitar in the queercore band Tribe 8 under the name Lynn Flipper. In 2001 he co-directed, co-wrote and co-starred in the feature *By Hook or by Crook* with Harry Dodge.

Howard earned an MFA in directing from UCLA. He directed three episodes of the series *Transparent* in 2015 and 2016, becoming the show's first transgender director. His other television directing credits include episodes of *Dickinson*, *Pose*, *This Is Us*, *The Fosters* and *Faking It*. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Transparent* (2014), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)

## Also known for

- *This Is Us* (2016), Director
- *Dickinson* (2019), Director
- *POSE* (2018), Director
- *The Affair* (2014), Director
- *The Fosters* (2013), Director
- *Boots* (2025), Director
- *Faking It* (2014), Director
- *Quantum Leap* (2022), Director

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