Past Fulbrighters/Case Studies
Jon Owens
All-disciplines Postgraduate Awards, 2009-10
Fulbright Project: Staging Shakespeare, University of Exeter.
Jon Tyler Owens is an actor/director/playwright residing in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2001, he founded Jack In The Black Box Theatre Company in Atlanta, where he was Artistic Director until 2007. He was named one of the “Top 10 Directors” by The Sunday Paper in 2006 and also named “…Atlanta’s most innovative theatrical mind.” by the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 2005. As a playwright, his short play Blue-Collared Dreams was produced in New York (FN Productions) and published by iuniverse in 2007. He was also awarded The Young Georgian Playwrighting Award in 1992 and has had his plays produced at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and with Jack In The Black Box Theatre. Over the past nine years he has worked as an actor, director, or in various technical and design fields with almost every theatre in Atlanta. Tyler graduated, cum laude, from Georgia State University with a BA in Film in 2008. His other interests include chess, science fiction, The Atlanta Falcons, his dog Jake and his beautiful wife Maia. As a Fulbright Scholar, Tyler will study Staging Shakespeare at the University of Exeter.
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