Owen Boucher (he/him/his) is a queer, autistic playwright and actor based in Hamilton, Ontario, on unceded Treaty #3 land. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from Queen’s University, along with an Ontario Advanced Diploma in Musical Theatre Performance from St. Lawrence College. Owen is also an alum of Theatre Aquarius’ Senior Performing Arts Program for secondary school students.
As an emerging theatre artist, Owen has developed new theatrical works with companies such as House + Body Theatre and Tarragon Theatre. Additionally, he was one of 16 North American finalists from the Shaw Festival’s 2020 Monologue Jam accepted into their annual Slaight Academy, and he partook in the 2022 world premiere concert of Leslie Arden’s new musical The Lancashire Lass. He has written three plays— Anagnorisis (’21), Mirror Ball (’23), and good boy (’25)—and has started writing Overhand/Underhand, a cautionary tale about how far we’d go to save our loved ones from far-right radicalization.
At the centre of Owen’s practice lies an innate love and curiosity for humanity on the margins. He has always been drawn towards unflinchingly honest works that deconstruct narrative and societal conventions to provoke thought, shock, and laughter. Artistically, Owen interrogates the performance & spectatorship of queerness, theatre as a counter-cultural artifact, how theatre can serve as the catalyst for grassroots education, and anything that gets a little—or very—messy. He is incredibly passionate about implementing equity and accessibility practices in the creative and everyday spaces we occupy.