Gary Owen

Gary Owen is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter who won both the George Devine Award and the Meyer Whitworth Award for The Shadow of a Boy. The same year, he won the Pearson Best Play Award and a Fringe First for The Drowned World. 

In 2010 Gary's work has included Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian for Watford Palace Theatre, which was nominated for the TMA Best New Play Award; Love Steals Us from Loneliness part of the inaugural season of the National Theatre of Wales; and Blackthorn for Theatr Clywd. Gary is also under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland and his original television series for BBC Wales, The Fabulous Baker Boys, which he co-wrote with Helen Raynor has been recommissioned for a second series.