Larry Owens

Larry Owens is an American performer whose career spans comedy, acting, writing, and singing. He grew up in East Baltimore and studied acting and improvisation at Steppenwolf before moving to New York in 2015 to pursue performance work. While volunteering at the Musical Theatre Factory, he met playwright Michael R. Jackson, and in 2019 his leading performance in Jackson's off-Broadway musical A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons earned him a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Owens also appeared in the stage productions Spamilton and Gigantic and presented his own solo show, Sondheimia, in 2021. On television he has acted in Search Party, Modern Love, and Abbott Elementary, served as a staff writer for the game show Paid Off, and voiced a character in the animated series Fairfax.