Gary Owen (born 1972) is a Welsh
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
, and winner of the 2003
Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre.
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
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best new play. The production of ''Iphigenia in Splott'' (2015) at
Sherman Theatre
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starring Sophie Melville was ranked by ''
The Guardian
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'' writers as the 28th best theatre show since 2000.
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"Client page at agents Curtis Brown
Welsh dramatists and playwrights
Living people
1972 births
People educated at Ysgol Brynteg
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