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Mary Lynn Owen is an award-winning playwright and actor whose first full-length play, KNEAD, received its world premiere production at The Alliance Theatre in November 2018 and its second full production at Aurora Theatre in January 2024. KNEAD, a one-person play in which Mary Lynn also performs, is the recipient of the 2019 Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award and The Alliance Theatre’s 2017 Reiser Grant for New Work.  Her additional plays have been produced and/or developed by The Alliance Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Actor’s Express, The Barter Theatre, Seven Devils Playwrights Foundry, Working Title Playwrights, Theatrical Outfit, and The Sewanee Writers Conference, where she recently received the 2025 Tennessee Williams Scholarship. Her play, SALVAGE, also a Finalist for The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, was named a 2025 finalist for the American Blues Theatre Blue Ink Award. Commissions include The Alabama Shakespeare Southern Writers Festival, and MultiShades Atlanta, and residencies include Cottages at Hedgebrook in Langley, WA, The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, GA, and The Eugene O’Neill Foundation in Danville, CA, where she received the Carey Perloff Award as a theater artist transitioning to playwriting. 

 

A regular performer on Atlanta’s professional stages and a veteran of over seventy-five professional productions, Mary Lynn is a three-time Suzi Award winner for Outstanding Performances. As a theater educator, she teaches the popular Taller de Teatro en Español (Theater Workshop in Spanish) at Emory University, a semester-long class designed to improve Spanish language proficiency using Theater techniques. Her professional affiliations include The Dramatist’s Guild/full member, Working Title Playwrights, Actor’s Equity Association, and SAG-Aftra. She has studied playwriting with Marsha Norman, Tammy Ryan, and Joseph Skibell.

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