Welsh playwright Gary Owen makes his Royal Court debut with Violence and Son. He is the winner of the Meyer Whitworth, George Devine and Pearson best play awards. His other plays includeIphigenia in Splott, Love Steals Us from Loneliness, Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco, The Shadow of a Boy, The Drowned World (winner Fringe first),Ghost City, Cancer Time, SK8, Big Hopes, In the Pipeline, Blackthorn, Mary Twice, Amgen, Broken, Bulletproof, The Ugly Truth andFree Folk. His adaptations include Spring Awakening and Ring, Ring, a new version ofLa Ronde for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Dicken’s A Christmas Carol for Sherman Cymru. He is a Creative Associate at Watford Palace Theatre, where his playsWe that Are Left, Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian, and Perfect Match have been produced.
