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
• 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 Short Trips: Snapshots 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

• Information about Gary on "Doolees"
• List on Garys play curtesy of "Theatre wales"
• The letter to The Guardian