Gary Owen (playwright)
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| Born | Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
Gary Owen (born 1972) is a Welsh playwright and winner of the Arts Council England 2003 Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre.
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 latest work, Mary Twice, was premiered at Porthcawl Pavilion, South Wales by Bridgend County Youth Theatre on 4 and 5 April 2008.
His 2010 play Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian is a nominee for the 2010 TMA Awards best new play.
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[edit] Plays
Owen's work includes;
- Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco 2001
- Fags (play) 2002
- The Shadow of a Boy 2002
- The Drowned World (Play) 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
- Osskah in the Doctor Who short-story collection Short Trips: Snapshots 2007
- Mary Twice
- Amgen:Broken2009
- Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian 2010
[edit] Trivia
- Owen went to Brynteg Comprehensive school
- Owen was one of the many notable signees of a letter to The Guardian newspaper deploring the cancelling of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play Behzti in December 2004
[edit] References
[edit] Externals links
- Information about Gary on "Doolees"
- List of Gary's plays courtesy of "Theatre wales"
- The letter to The Guardian
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