Meet the CEO

Owen Brown (M. A.) is the artistic director and CEO of Bread & Wine Theatre Company in St. Louis. He is involved theatre as a playwright, a director, a producer, & an actor as well as contributing scholarly publications to the Thornton Wilder Journal. As a director, Owen's recent work includes First Person Shooter which won drama of the year in the St. Louis Fringe Festival; The Long Christmas Dinner, and Babette’s Feast. Owen’s playwriting credits include The Time of My Life, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the Murder, and Encircled with Ice. This summer, Owen is looking forward to producing Steel Magnolias and an expanded version of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Murder. As an emerging scholar, Owen wrote the first ever comparative analysis of Wilder’s playscript and libretto of The Long Christmas Dinner “Time, Death, and the Bayards,” which is being published in the sixth volume of the Thornton Wilder Journal. Two contributions from Owen have been accepted into the first issue of the seventh volume of the Thornton Wilder Journal, the publication of which is forthcoming. He is scheduled to speak at the Comparative Drama Conference and the C. S. Lewis Study Center Summer 2026 conference over the next few months.

Owen graduated in 2019 from California Baptist University as the top student in his graduating class. He received his master's from Covenant Theological Seminary in 2025. In his free time, Owen enjoys teaching the four and five year old Sunday School class at his church, writing VBS curriculum based off the Pentateuch, and listening to classic audiobooks. Owen is passionate about making artistic visions into beautiful realities. He sees his role in the theatre as being a driver of new work who brings together a community of creators and gives them what they need to create praiseworthy art. It is his prayer that this endeavor of starting Bread and Wine Theatre Company will produce stories that speak to people of all walks of life and bless a community of theatrical creators in the process.