David Owen is a MFA Directing student at the University of Calgary. He is a playwright, director, actor and sound-designer. He is an associate member of the Playwright's Guild of Canada (PGC) and a member of Alberta Playwright's Network (APN). He is best known for his plays Excess Unwanted Growth, No Entry and Hang-Gliding Over the Abyss. Some of the shows he has directed are Play at the University of Calgary, Doctor Faustus at the University of Lethbridge, The Importance of Being Ernest and Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) at Red Deer College, The Birthday Party and Doctor Faustus at the Walterdale Theatre and the Canadian premiere of My Head Was A Sledgehammer for his own company, Manual Transmission Theatre.