about owen
owen boucher (he/him/his) is a queer + autistic actor, singer and theatre creator currently based in hamilton, ontario, which is situated on Indigenous land covered by treaty #3. he holds a bachelor’s degree in musical theatre from st. lawrence college and queen’s university, having graduated in the spring of 2022.
owen garnered an appreciation for theatre in his early teens after landing a spot on his high school’s improv team, and he’s been moderately annoying ever since. he partook in theatre aquarius’ highly renowned summer programme to train in acting, voice, and movement, continuing his studies into his post-secondary education. some of his favourite credits from school include #3/john cabot in concord floral, rent (theatre aquarius), jack in into the woods, ernst in spring awakening, and juliet in a devised presentation of romeo and juliet (slc stage). while at queen’s university, owen was also involved with queen’s players, a non-profit, student-led sketch comedy troupe that raised funds for charities and grassroots organizations across the country.
owen is also expanding his creative career as a playwright, specializing in queer theatre that deconstructs narrative conventions to provoke thought, shock, and laughter. artistically, he is interested in the intersection of art & activism, the performance & subsequent spectation of queerness, theatre as cultural artifact, and anything that gets a little (or incredibly) messy. he has written two plays - anagnorisis and mirror ball - and is currently developing good boy, a comedy about the extreme ways a body can keep the score, with tarragon theatre as a part of their 2025 young playwrights unit.
as an emerging theatre artist, owen has had the chance to partake in many incredible opportunities: he was involved in the original workshops and world premiere concert of leslie arden’s new musical the lancashire lass, was one of 16 finalists out of 130 north america-wide applicants accepted to study with the shaw festival in their 2021 slaight academy, and had mirror ball workshopped as part of house + body theatre’s 2023 playwrights initiative.
when he isn’t in the rehearsal room or writing, owen can be found listening to house music (the best genre of all time), cooking pasta, designing roller coasters, or crying about keith haring. he is always crying about keith haring.