Evelyn Bowen (18 June 1911 – 4 November 1994) was a Welsh-Canadian actress, director, writer, editor and educator.
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.
[5] After her time with the Old Vic, she worked with the MacDona Players which produced travelling productions performed in smaller cities throughout Britain.
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.
With the involvement of Sarah Lee Lewis as an administrator, by 1973, the collaboration formed Mermaid Theatre for Young Audiences.
She wrote plays for production by Mermaid Theatre, a number based on Mi’kmaq legends.
Bowen married Irish poet and writer Frank O’Connor (Michael O'Donovan) in February 1939 [12][13] The couple had three children; they divorced in 1953.
There, as Evelyn Garbary, she established herself as a theatrical director and producer, writer and editor, dramatist and educator.