Mary Lynn Owen
ACTOR:
MARY LYNN OWEN* last appeared at Aurora Theatre as Dr. Vivian Bearing in Wit, for which she earned the 2016 Suzi Award for Best Lead Actress. To return to Aurora with her most personal work is indeed muy especial! She has also appeared at Aurora as Vera Charles in 4,000 Miles, Rose in Sirens, and Clarín in La Vida es Sueño. Additional acting credits from over 75 professional productions include The Alliance Theatre (Knead; Crossing Delancey; Elliott: A Soldier’s Fugue; Medea; A Christmas Carol; Steel Magnolias; A Wrinkle in Time); Theatrical Outfit (Our Town; The Laramie Project; Dividing the Estate); Actor’s Express (Downstairs; Six Degrees of Separation; Kimberly Akimbo); Georgia Shakespeare Festival (The Glass Menagerie), and Theater in the Square (The Little Foxes; Suzi Award, Best Supporting Actress.) Recent film credits include principal roles in the independent films, Trailer (Trash) Magic, and Overexposed. Mary Lynn is a longtime faculty member of the Theater Studies Departments of both Emory University and Oxford College, and a proud member of Actors Equity and Sag-Aftra. Thank you for being the most important part of live theater! Marylynnowen.com.
PLAYWRIGHT:
MARY LYNN OWEN’s first play, KNEAD, received its world premiere production at The Alliance Theatre in 2018. KNEAD is the recipient of the Alliance Theatre’s Reiser Lab Award and The Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award. Her following works include SALVAGE, a 2022 Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference and a featured entry in the 2021 Threshold New Play Festival at Actors Express, the 2023 Ethel Woolson Development Lab, and the 2023 Unexpected Play Festival at Theatrical Outfit; and LADY PARTS, featured in the 2019 Working Title Playwrights First Light Series and Theatrical Outfit’s 2020 Unexpected Play Festival. Her shorter plays have been commissioned by The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Multi Shades Atlanta, and she is the recipient of a MAP Fund Development Grant through Synchronicity Theatre for the development of a play based on collected stories of women and their work. In 2022 Mary Lynn was named the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation and awarded the Carey Perloff Fellowship, an award given by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation to an established theater artist who desires to transition to playwriting. She was also recently named a Finalist for the Dramatists Guild National Playwriting Fellows Program. She has studied playwriting with Marsha Norman and Joseph Skibell, and her writing residencies include The Eugene O’Neill Foundation/Tao House in Danville, CA; Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley, WA; and The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Working Title Playwrights.