Gary Owen (playwright)

Gary Owen (born 1972 in Pembrokeshire ) is a Welsh playwright .

Life

Owen studied at Cambridge University and the European Film School in Ebeltoft, Denmark . In the late 1990s he started writing plays.

His first play, Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco , was staged by the Paines Plow theater company in 2001, directed by Vicky Featherstone . The Shadow of a Boy at the Royal National Theater followed in 2002 . The piece won the George Devine Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award . The Drowned World , again directed by Featherstone for Paines Plow, won the Pearson Best Play Award.

The drama Iphigenie in Splott won the 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2015.

He lives in Splott, a district of Cardiff .

Plays (selection)

• 2001: Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco. (Paines Plow; Sgript Cymru)
• 2002: The Shadow of a Boy. (Royal National Theater)
• 2002: The Drowned World. (Paines Plow)
• 2003: Amser Canser. (Welsh, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; in English as Cancer Time at Theater 503)
• 2004: Ghost City. (Sgript Cymru)
• 2006: An Enemy for the People. (RuthIsStrangerThanRichard / Chapter Stiwdio in collaboration with Sgript Cymru)
• 2007: We That Are Left. (Watford Palace Theater)
• 2008: Mary Twice. (Bridgend County Youth Theater)
• 2008: Big Hopes. (National Theater Education / Prince's Trust)
• 2009: Amgen: Broken. (Welsh and English; Sherman Cymru)
• 2009: A Christmas Carol. (Adaptation of Dickens' work, Sherman Cymru)
• 2010: Bulletproof. (Replay Productions, Belfast)
• 2010: The Ugly Truth. (Theatr Iolo)
• 2010: Free Folk. (Forest Forge)
• 2010: Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian. (Watford Palace Theater)
• 2010: Spring Awakening. (Adaptation of Wedekind's Spring Awakening , Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama)
• 2015: Iphigenia in Splott (adaptation of ancient myths based on the subject matter of the Euripides drama Iphigenia in Aulis , Sherman Theater)

literature

• Gary Owen: Plays 1. With an introduction by Vicky Featherstone . Methuen Drama, London, 2005

Web links

• Official website gary-owen.co.uk
• Gary Owen in the Doollee Playwrights Database