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Evelyn Bowen (Esther Evelyn Sara Owen Bowen) was born on 18 June, 1911 in Cardigan, Wales, is a Welsh-Canadian actress, theatrical producer and director, writer and educator. Discover Evelyn Bowen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Esther Evelyn Sara Owen Bowen
Occupation N/A
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 18 June 1911
Birthday 18 June
Birthplace Cardigan, Wales
Date of death 1994
Died Place Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality Wales

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1911

Evelyn Bowen (18 June 1911 – 4 November 1994), was a Welsh and Canadian actress, director, writer, editor and educator.

Esther Evelyn Sara Owen Bowen was born on 18 June 1911 in Cardigan, Wales to Evan Owen Bowen, a doctor and Elizabeth Evans.

Her father died when she was three and her mother remarried Owen Davies.

Her mother's father was mayor of Cardigan.

The Evans family spoke Welsh at home.

The Bowens spoke English.

Davies moved the family to Carnarvon in North Wales.

1928

Bowen lived in Wales until 1928 when she moved to London where she lived from 1928 to 1932.

When she was twenty-three she made her debut at court.

1929

Bowen was educated in St. Winifred’s School for Girls in Llanfairfechan before going to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art until 1929.

When in London, Bowen began her acting career at Old Vic Shakespearean Company.

As an actor entering the profession, many of her early roles were as "extra", a second for roles of more senior members of the company; with experience she began to take on roles herself.

After her time with the Old Vic, she worked with the MacDona Players which produced travelling productions performed in smaller cities throughout Britain.

1932

In 1932 she was a member of John Martin Harvey's company doing its last tour of Canada.

On that tour, she was taken to a performance by a traditional Chinese theatre company in Vancouver where she was struck by the precision, delicacy and artistry of a production that used masks, mime and dance, was ritualistic, traditional and popular.

1933

She returned to Wales where she became a founder of the Welsh National Theatre Company and was its director from 1933 to 1936.

1935

She married Robert Speaight in 1935; they were divorced in 1939.

The couple had one son.

1936

She met Irish writer, dramatist and director of the Abbey Theatre Frank O'Connor in 1936.

He persuaded Seán Ó Faoláin that Bowen should play the lead role in the upcoming Abbey production of his play, She had to Do Something.

1937

After controversy among Abbey actors and management, she was granted the role; the play was produced in 1937.

Bowen moved to Dublin to take on the part.

1939

She married O'Connor in 1939; the couple divorced in 1953.

Bowen married Irish poet and writer Frank O’Connor (Michael O'Donovan) in February 1939 The couple had three children; they divorced in 1953.

Following the divorce from O'Connor, Bowen married Abraham Garbary, an engineer.

The Garbarys had two children.

1956

In 1956, Bowen migrated to Canada.

In 1956 the couple moved to Canada, first to Toronto, then Montreal; the children followed in 1957.

1967

For 1967, Canada's centenary year, she commissioned playwright David Giffin to write Coming Here to Stay on the arrival of Black United Empire Loyalists to Nova Scotia.

She then produced the play with the community group The Inglewood Players, and presented it at the Dominion Drama Festival, the annual national community drama festival of the time.

In the same year she was appointed Director of Drama at Acadia University.

1971

With puppeteer Tom Miller, she co-founded the Acadia Child Drama and Puppet Theatre with students from Acadia University in 1971.

1973

With the involvement of Sarah Lee Lewis as an administrator, by 1973, the collaboration formed Mermaid Theatre for Young Audiences.

Bowen was a writer as well as an actress.

1976

In 1976 Bowen studied at the Leningrad Theater School.

1979

In 1979 she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Acadia University.

1980

In the 1980s she wrote her memoirs, Letters to my Grandchildren, as radio talks.

1992

She wrote plays with Ernest Buckler, wrote for radio, coached and edited Nova Scotia writers---stories by author Tessie Gillis were brought to publication as The Promised Land: Stories Of Cape Breton, (1992).

She wrote plays for production by Mermaid Theatre, a number based on Mi’kmaq legends.

1994

Bowen stayed involved in theatre and writing until she died in 1994.