Gary Owen (playwright)

Gary Owen (playwright)

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Gary Owen 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) and has a strong affinity to his native Wales. 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 the 4th and 5th April 2008, and will be performed again in November at the Wales Millennium Centre.

Plays

Owen's work includes;

* "Mary Twice" 2008 [cite web|url= http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/news/newsdetail.asp?newsID=2575|title= Mary Wales|publisher= Theatre in Wales|date= 5 April 2008|accessdate= 2008-07-09]
* "Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco" 2001
* "Fags (play)" 2002
* "The Shadow of a Boy" 2002
* "The Drowned World (Play)" 2002
* "Here Comes Everybody" 2003
* "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 "" 2007

Trivia

*Gary went to Brynteg Comprehensive school
*Gary 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

References

Externals Links

* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsO/OwenGary.htm Information about Gary on "Doolees"]
* [http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Gary%20Owen List on Garys play curtesy of "Theatre wales"]
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,1378818,00.html The letter to The Guardian]


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