Sean Dunnington is a queer/jewish playwright from Hawai’i Island. His work has been presented Off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, local libraries and galleries, state museums, old attics, public radio stations, film festivals, and LGBTQIA+ centers. He’s been in residence with the East-West Center, Waiwai Collective, Centre 42, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center. He’s been a fellow with the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Orchard Project, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai’i, California Arts Council, National Collaborative for Health Equity, and Henry Luce Foundation. Sean has led/facilitated over 100 free writing workshops and story circles for non-profits, public schools, and community centers across Hawai’i...
Sean Dunnington is a queer/jewish playwright from Hawai’i Island. His work has been presented Off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country, local libraries and galleries, state museums, old attics, public radio stations, film festivals, and LGBTQIA+ centers. He’s been in residence with the East-West Center, Waiwai Collective, Centre 42, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Center. He’s been a fellow with the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Orchard Project, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai’i, California Arts Council, National Collaborative for Health Equity, and Henry Luce Foundation. Sean has led/facilitated over 100 free writing workshops and story circles for non-profits, public schools, and community centers across Hawai’i. He continues this work in Singapore. He is the Founding Director of Tree Moss, the first-ever collective for emerging and established playwrights in Hawai’i, which has recently been awarded the Dramatist Guild Foundation’s Catalyst Fellowship. Sean received his BA in Applied Playwriting from the University of Redlands’ Johnston Center for Integrative Studies and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Sean is currently in Singapore as a 2024-2025 Henry Luce Scholar, with a placement at Centre 42 as a Visiting Resident Playwright.