Sean Swenson

Sean Swenson is a queer playwright, screenwriter, and performer from Austin, TX. They're interested in online culture, loneliness, history, and human behavior in a world that doesn’t makes sense. Their work has been supported by companies like Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective, Fresh Binder Productions, and First Kiss Theatre.

Sean is also the co-creator of the web series The Fans The Show (@thefanstheshow). BA: Bennington College. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. @seanworldnomercy

Sean Swenson is a queer playwright, screenwriter, and performer from Austin, TX. They're interested in online culture, loneliness, history, and human behavior in a world that doesn’t makes sense. Their work has been supported by companies like Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective, Fresh Binder Productions, and First Kiss Theatre.

Sean is also the co-creator of the web series The Fans The Show (@thefanstheshow). BA: Bennington College. MFA: Carnegie Mellon University. @seanworldnomercy

Scripts

Forgiveness

by Sean Swenson

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
period

A play about two plagues and one house.

A play about two plagues and one house.

Nancy

by Sean Swenson

3
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
horror,
period,
verse

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.

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Half World

by Sean Swenson

6
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

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

7
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
satire

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

7
Cast Size
8—9
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

my Three Sisters play. It's about Chebutykin.

my Three Sisters play. It's about Chebutykin.

HOMERESTEIA

by Sean Swenson

Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
fable/folktale,
horror,
tragedy

bart simpson play.

bart simpson play.