Gary Owen (playwright)

Gary Owen (born 1972) is a Welsh playwright and winner of the 2003 Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre.

Gary Owen
Born	1972 (age 48–49) Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Occupation	Playwright

Career

He was writer in residence at Paines Plough between 2001 and 2002, and was previously script editor at BBC Wales Drama (1998–2000). His plays have been performed around the United Kingdom from London to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and abroad as far as Canada, Australia and Germany – in which Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco was performed in German at Theater in Der Fabrik, Dresden in February 2003.

His 2010 play Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian was a nominee for the 2010 TMA Awards best new play.

Works

Theatre

• Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco (2001)
• Fags (2002)
• The Shadow of a Boy (2002)
• The Drowned World (2002)
• Amser Canser (2003) (in Welsh)
• The Low Hundreds (2003)
• Cold Harbour (2003)
• The Green (2003)
• Ghost City (2004)
• Hartleby, Oooglemore and Jeramee (2005)
• An Enemy for the People (2006)
• Mary Twice (2008)
• Amgen:Broken (2009)
• A Christmas Carol (2009)
• Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian (2010)
• Love Steals Us From Loneliness (2010)
• Free Folk (2010)
• Blackthorn (2010)
• Perfect Match (2013)
• Pen-blwydd Poenus Pete (2014)
• Iphigenia In Splott (2015)
• Violence and Son (2015)
• Killology (2017)
• The Cherry Orchard (2017) (re-imagining)

Other

• "Osskah" (short story, published in the Doctor Who collection Short Trips: Snapshots) 2007

References

External links

• Information about Owen on "Doolees"
• List of owen's plays courtesy of "Theatre wales"
• The letter to The Guardian
• Client page at agents Curtis Brown