John Owen (1952–2001) was a children's author and director and is best known for his Welsh teen television drama Pam fi Duw (Why me God), a series of books and TV programmes which he wrote and directed.

[3] Owen was a former Drama teacher and Head of Lower school at Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen near Pontypridd, South Wales.

He completed his Bachelor of Education degree in 1974 at Trinity College in Carmarthen; in the same year he took up his first teaching appointment at his former secondary school.

[2] Many believed that the reason why John Owen got away with the serious acts for so long and continue to perpetrate was because the school was hiding the truth (not giving all the evidence to police[5]), to stop the public losing confidence in Welsh-medium education.

"[5] In April 2021 a former pupil of John Owen, Gareth Potter, came forward to speak publicly in a S4C documentary, Cadw Cyfrinach (Keeping a Secret).