Gareth Owen is a twelve-time Tony & Olivier award-winning / nominated[1] Broadway and West End sound designer, described as "one of the only behind-the-scenes creatives whose star wattage spells success for theatrical productions".

While at university he worked in nightclubs[6] as a lighting and sound engineer, and as a boatman and beach lifeguard in St. Ives,[7] before eventually dropping out in his final year to go on tour with a rock band.

In a 2024 Broadway Buzz interview he says "My very first job was hauling huge, heavy mains cables through knee-deep mud at festival fields and dragging delay speakers across two hundred meters of sludge and piss and old cigarette butts.

"[10] Owens theatre career began when he was invited to mix the musical The Blues Brothers which was running at what is now the Trafalgar Studios in Londons west end.

[11] From here he was offered a job as sound designer for the UK tour of Stephen Schwartz' musical Godspell,[12] beginning a collaboration which would continue until the present day.

[15] Since 2010, Owen has since worked with composers and musicians including Alan Menken,[16] Andrew Lloyd Webber,[17] Stephen Schwartz,[18] Björn Ulvaeus,[19] Glen Ballard, Lin-Manuel Miranda,[20] Max Martin,[21] David Bryan,[22] George Stiles, Cyndi Lauper, Pete Townsend,[23] Alan Silvestri,[24] Alicia Keys,[25] David Foster, Karey & Wayne Kirkpartick, Tom Kitt,[26] Stephen Sondheim,[27] Giles Martin, Tom Fletcher, and Sir Elton John.

Owen was the first person to use the object based wave field synthesis immersive audio in both Londons West End[52] and on New Yorks Broadway,[53] for the musicals Come from Away and Diana, respectively.

Owen is also credited as the first person to integrate wireless tracking of performers in to an object based sound system on Broadway,[56] this time for MJ the Musical.

Owen was the first person to use a DiGiCo mixing console in theatre,[62] the now defunct D5, for the UK Tour of the Cliff Richard musical Summer Holiday.

Owen was one of the early adopters of computer game audio engines to create dynamic sound effects in theatre, notably on Broadway's Back to the Future musical.

[67] In 2023, he and his co-founders Henry Harrod and Peter Bridgman sold Fourier Audio to live mixing desk manufacturer DiGiCo for an undisclosed multi-million pound sum.