Laurence Owen (composer)

Laurence Owen is a British composer, musician, comedian and actor. Early career Laurence Owen’s career began in the 1990s as a child actor. He had notable credits in the feature film Wilde (playing Vyvyan Wilde opposite Stephen Fry) and the BBC period drama Berkeley Square, in which he had a recurring role. Composer Owen attended Brighton University from which he graduated with First Class Honours in Digital Music and Sound Arts. Since 2011 he has written music for a number of stage and film projects, including several short pieces for film festivals. In 2013, he won the Früh Kölsch Audience Award for Best Music in a Short Film for his score for the animated short White Morning. In the Autumn of the same year he provided sound design for 1927 Productions’ Golem, which was first performed at the Salzburg Festival before transferring to the Young Vic, London, and the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. For his work on Golem, he was nominated for Best Theatre Sound at the Pro Sound Awards 2015. Owen was composer and musical director of the live music and cartoon theatre show Cat & Mouse, a 1927 and Village Underground co-production which was also part of the 2017 Latitude Festival. In 2019, h