Daniel W. Owens

[3] In the mid-1970s Owens moved from Roxbury, MA[4] to New York City to write many successful off-broadway productions including critically acclaimed The Michigan, 1979.

In "Lagrima del Diablo" ("The Devil's Tear"),[8] author Dan Owens imagines a power struggle between a Roman Catholic churchman and a revolutionary leader on a recently de-colonialized West Indian island.

Archbishop Stephen Emmanuel Pontifex (Graham Brown) has ordered the closing of the local churches until the revolution frees his fellow churchmen.

The play captures the intercommunications of UN peacekeeping force officer Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lindstrom and the leader of a small Angolan opposition army General Isaac Ernesto Motambi.

Owens was credited in multiple publications for capturing the irreverent and controversial aura of Jackie "Moms" Mabley in a reverent but comic light.

Writers receive a stipend and full room and board on a 90-acre seaside property, attending all first rehearsals and staged readings of their peers' work in addition to their own workshops.