Owen Laheen, an actor and assistant director, is most known for the 2019 drama series City on a Hill, Café Americano, and Not My Hero.
What is known of Owen Laheen’s personal life?
Owen Laheen was born in Dublin, Ireland. Laheen was brought up in South of France’s Provence region and Ireland’s Co. Wicklow. She speaks English, French, and Irish Gaelic with ease.
As a student of the UNCSA School of Drama’s High School program and the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Acting, Owen holds a BFA in acting.
Katherine Laheen, is her twin sister who is also an actress, best recognised for her roles in The Gilded Age, WeCrashed, and Ramy (2019). (2022). She has dual citizenship and holds both the US and the Irish passport.
She claims that she is drawn to LGBTQ stories, intentional storytelling, and fast-paced, humorous dialogue mixed with extended, silent, passionate close-ups. She is currently inspired by The Lost Daughter, The Worst Person in the World, and Petite Maman and Succession.
The pronouns they/them/she/her are used by Owen Laheen. Her Instagram @owenlaheen has 1.2 k followers.
Laheen is also a certified yoga instructor and has been trained in singing (Mezzo-soprano, Alto).
What are some of Owen Laheen’s projects that she worked on?
Belfast Girls
As an understudy for four of the play’s five roles, Owen just made her Off-Broadway debut with the Belfast Girls cast at the Irish Repertory Theatre.
A top-notch cast supports Nicola Murphy’s tight direction of Belfast Girls. Aida Leventaki, who portrays Molly, is a refreshing source of energy who offers these girls something to believe in both now and in the future. Judith, played by Caroline Strange, is initially the group’s alpha, maintaining order in the raucous bunch. However, as she comes under Molly’s influence, her position in the group shifts.
Hannah has a unique attraction thanks to Mary Mallen’s excellent singing voice, which she utilises to amuse both herself and the other people. Letters from Sarah Jane’s brother, played by Sarah Street, paint a somewhat overly optimistic picture of life in Australia. For Ellen, who the tough-as-nails Labhaoise Magee plays, there are no rules.
The play was about the five young women in Jaki McCarrick’s suspenseful drama Belfast Girls, which was played at the Irish Repertory Theatre, takes place on a ship in 1851 that is going from Ireland to Australia. They all have secrets and have all lied at some point. These Belfast girls are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime in search of a brand-new, better life.
These women were brought to Australia, where men predominated and there were only around 4,000 other women, due to a convergence of historical events. There was a lack of workers as well. The Great Famine in Ireland had left hundreds of young women homeless and housed in workhouses. This gave rise to the Female Orphan Emigration Scheme, in which young girls between the ages of 14 and 18 were sent to Sydney and other Australian towns.
These women have a love-hate connection with Ireland since it provided them with little genuine opportunities. Australia, on the other hand, is a nation of infinite potential and a blank slate, where people can recreate themselves. Therefore, even if they lied a little or weren’t as morally upright as the Scheme purportedly required, it was all for their own higher good. And the likelihood that they won’t go back to Ireland increases if they think about it frequently, perhaps even wistfully.
Molly, a proponent of a new world order with universal suffrage and higher compensation and earnings for workers, enters the fray. She travels with a luggage stuffed with books and a depth of information from throughout the globe, which makes her stand out from and ultimately cause problems with her roommates.
Karl Marx’s The Communist Credo is one of her favourite novels, but it is the group’s own personal manifesto that really hits home: Australia will give them the opportunity to be masters of their own destiny and take charge of their lives for the first time. This is a hope as much as it is a mantra, and in that sense, the real world is not on their side.
Their communication flows as naturally as if they had been coworkers for years.
Belfast Girls is no exception to the rule that great drama is always created when strong personalities are crammed into small spaces without an escape route. The audience is kept interested in the stories of these women who are horribly abused, searching for any means of escape, and snatching at whatever straws are thrown their way by McCarrick, who is a master storyteller.
The Wolves
Owen Laheen will next appear in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves at the McCarter Theater, which will be helmed by Sarah Rasmussen, the McCarter’s artistic director. Nine teenage girls from a talented high school soccer team are the subject of the play. The pressure is on with just a few weeks till nationals. This group of relatable and tough young warriors will work hard and practise for their games while also managing a developing grasp of their complex environment. The Wolves is a tale about both on and off the Astroturf, life, love, and loss.
City on a Hill
She also portrays Maeve Regan in Season 2 of City on a Hill on Showtime. In episodes 3 through 8, she plays a recurring figure opposite Kevin Bacon and Jill Hennessey.
City on a Hill is an American criminal drama series. On June 7 (online) and June 16 (offline), the series debuted. Showtime picked up the second season of the show on August 2, 2019, and it broadcasted on March 28, 2021. The show received a third season renewal on June 2, 2021, and it debuted on July 31, 2022. The show is based on a story by Ben Affleck and Charlie MacLean.
Based on 37 reviews, the review website Rotten Tomatoes recorded a 76% approval rating. Though City on a Hill’s meandering tale can’t quite meet its ambitions, it’s enjoyable and even occasionally compelling to see Kevin Bacon and company take on bureaucracy, according to the website’s critical consensus. Based on 22 reviews, the review site Metacritic gave the series a score of 65 out of 100, indicating generally positive reviews.