Sean Swenson

is a queer playwright, screenwriter, and performer from Austin, Texas.

b.a. bennington college 2020 / m.f.a. carnegie mellon 2024

is a queer playwright, screenwriter, and performer from Austin, Texas.

b.a. bennington college 2020 / m.f.a. carnegie mellon 2024

Scripts

Forgiveness

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

A play about two plagues and one house.

A play about two plagues and one house.

Nancy

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

A play for four performers. It’s about Clem, an agoraphobe who becomes fixated on an online fetish subculture called “forcemasc” geared towards closeted trans men. Clem begins an intense correspondence with a Mephistophelean figure named Jack, who promises to rebuild them in his image, before forces both mundane and divine intervene -- including a blank verse-speaking Joan of Arc, a depressed neighbor, and an...

A play for four performers. It’s about Clem, an agoraphobe who becomes fixated on an online fetish subculture called “forcemasc” geared towards closeted trans men. Clem begins an intense correspondence with a Mephistophelean figure named Jack, who promises to rebuild them in his image, before forces both mundane and divine intervene -- including a blank verse-speaking Joan of Arc, a depressed neighbor, and an archangel with 1000 hands. NANCY is about feelings of ambivalence and terror around transition, and what we have to sacrifice in order to live how we’re meant to.

Half World

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

Half World is a play about loneliness, the treacherous hive mind of the internet, and the consequences of writing gay fan fiction with your best friend.

Half World is a play about loneliness, the treacherous hive mind of the internet, and the consequences of writing gay fan fiction with your best friend.

Art Gets What it Wants

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

Glen and Julie, two ambitious and unstable friends, try to mine their lives for art and end up hurting each other instead. Then reality begins to unravel...

Glen and Julie, two ambitious and unstable friends, try to mine their lives for art and end up hurting each other instead. Then reality begins to unravel...

Chebutykin

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

my Three Sisters play. It's about Chebutykin.

my Three Sisters play. It's about Chebutykin.

HOMERESTEIA

by Sean Swenson

Synopsis

bart simpson play.

bart simpson play.