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Jonathan Owen Jonathan was born and lives in Birmingham, England. He trained as a Music and Drama teacher at St. Peter’s College, Faculty of Education, Birmingham University. After teaching in various schools and colleges, he became a full-time performer. In the West-End in London he has appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar, Call Me Madam, Singin’ In The Rain, Ziegfeld and Having A Ball. In the provinces; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (York), The King in The King & I (Weston), Harry Roat in Wait Until Dark (Jersey), Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit and Mrs Swabb in Habeas Corpus (Isle of Man). National tours include: Charlie Girl, Some Like It Hot and Singin’ In The Rain. His Television work is extensive amounting to over 60 appearances on Uk television, including: Peter Nuttal, Kate O’Mara’s stepson in 26 episodes of the BBC1 ‘soap’ Triangle. Peter Gillard in All Creatures Great & Small. Killer John in Prince Among Men, and in Extremely Dangerous with Sean Bean. Most recent work includes: Doctors as Bob Langford for the BBC. London’s Burning for LWT. Alan Bleasedale’s Oliver Twist (filmed in Prague with Julie Walters) for Carlton, in Emmerdale as nasty solicitor Mr. Sutherland and as Peter Ward, a dodgy tractor dealer, in Heartbeat (for YTV) His most enjoyable work though, has been in Coronation St. for Granada TV, and he is delighted to have played two very funny and different characters. Initially he caused mayhem as ‘The Great Orlando’, psychic hyponotist, casting his spell on Blanche, Curly, Tyrone and Les’. He was then reincarnated as Weatherfield’s Vicar The Rev. Ashbourne, trying to make sense of Rita, Norris, Roy and Emily whilst they were ‘high’ on cannabis. Most recently he was seen trying to christen Tracy Barlow’s baby, at a very volatile Christening! As well as numerous plays and serials for BBC Radio 4, he is probably best remembered as ‘Terry Barford’ in The Archers, a role he played for 10 Years. For two years he was also the voice of ‘Uncle Offa’ for BBC Radio 4’s Farming Week, which Gillian Reynolds’ of The Telegraph chose as her ‘Pick of the year’. Jonathan is also one of the UK’s leading experts on Pantomime; Being an established ‘Dame’, Director and author. In 1995, ‘96, ‘98 and 2000 he was resident Writer and Director for Bermuda’s Annual Pantomimes, before dashing back to play Dame in the UK. Christmas 2004/5 will see him playing Dame in Weston Super Mare. He is also author of the stageplay Teapots and Superglue, a comedy-drama, which received critical acclaim at it’s premiere in May and June 2004. Jonathan is a member of the Examination Panel for Speech, Drama, Communication & Musical Theatre at Trinity College, London. He has examined and given workshops in; India (2001) in Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Bombay and Delhi. New Zealand – North (2003) and New Zealand – South (2004) |
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