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
The Meyer-Whitworth Award was a literary prize established in 1991 and awarded from 1992 until 2011 to new British playwrights to help them further their careers. The £10,000 prize, one of the largest annual prizes for play writing in the UK, was ...
for new writing for the theatre.
Career
He was writer in residence at
Paines Plough
Paines Plough is a touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall and director John Adams.
The company specialises exclusively in commissioning and producing new plays and helping playwrights develop their craft.
Over the past ...
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
The Sherman Theatre ( cy, Theatr y Sherman) is a venue in the Cathays district of Cardiff. It was built as a twin-auditorium venue in 1973 with financial support from Cardiff University. Sherman Cymru was the name of the Sherman Theatre between 2 ...
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
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'' 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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