Gary Owen (playwright)

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Gary Owen
Born	Bridgend

Gary Owen is a Welsh playwright and Winner of the Arts Council England 2003 Meyer-Whitworth Award for new writing for the theatre. His work includes :-

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

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.

[edit] 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