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Gary Owen
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
OccupationPlaywright

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

Career

Owen attended Cambridge University before he went into theatre.[1] 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. The production of Iphigenia in Splott (2015) at Sherman Theatre starring Sophie Melville was ranked by The Guardian writers as the 28th best theatre show since 2000.[2] It was revived for another run in 2022 with Melville returning to her role.[3]

Works

Theatre

Other

References

  1. ^ a b Arifa Akbar (13 February 2023). "Babygrows are such sweet sorrow: Romeo and Juliet get a gritty romcom reboot". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  2. ^ Billington, Michael; Soloski, Alexis; Love, Catherine; Fisher, Mark; Wiegand, Chris (17 September 2019). "The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ Arifa Akbar (2 October 2022). "Iphigenia in Splott review – a shattering modern classic that distils all our troubles". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2023.

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