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). His plays include "Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco, Fags, The Low Hundreds, Ghost City, An Enemy for the People", and "Mary Twice".