A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
An actor for many years, Sean began writing for the theatre as co-librettist for the musical Phantom of the Country Opera, which had its world premiere at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois. He went on to debut five shows at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City –his comedies Beer for Breakfast and As Long As We Both Shall Live and his musicals (librettist/lyricist) Married Alive!, A Dog’s Life, and Another Night Before Christmas. In addition, Sean has had four world premieres at Peninsula Players Theatre in Wisconsin — Making God Laugh, The Tin Woman, Now and Then and A Rock Sails By. The last of which was part of the statewide festival, “World Premiere Wisconsin”. His play LUCK! won an honorable mention from the National Writers Association’s Playwrighting Festival and was produced by the Epic Theatre Company. His plays and musicals have gone on to hundreds of productions around the world, including China, England, Australia, Germany, Serbia, Russia, Ireland, Italy, and others. Sean has been the Playwright in Residence at Centre Stage’s New Play Festival in South Carolina, the Playwright in Residence at Lamb Arts Regional Theatre in Iowa and twice served as an adjudicator for the Midwest Dramatists Conference. Longtime Chicago and New York City residents, Sean and his wife Kathy moved full time to Pennsylvania in ’22 when Kathy completed a 13-year run in Broadway’s “Wicked.” In PA, they share a lovely home, canoe, and golf cart, as well as sweet memories of Sean’s recently passed on writing partner, excellent dog Hank. His musical “Phantom of the Country Opera” has been published by MTI, and his other plays/musicals have been published by Playscripts, Inc. and Broadway Licensing. Sean is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG/AFTRA and The Dramatists Guild.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.