Sean Dillon

Last updated

January 2, 2019
 

Biography

Sean Dillon is a Twin Cities-based theater maker, an improviser and improv teacher and director, the founder of dark theater company Oncoming Productions, and the Managing Director of HUGE Improv Theater. He also acts for film and commercials, and is the world's unlikeliest hand model. His especial areas of performance interest include stage horror, high physicality, multi-character performance, devised work, and anything that puts him in contact with new people, voices, and perspectives in the theater.

Résumé

SELECT CREDITS:

Stage:

Oncoming Productions, MN
Geminae (Howard Boyle) - dir. Becky Hauser
Dread the Halls: Holiday Spirits (Jackson Morris) - dir. Victoria Pyan
Promiscuous Fiction (Various) - dir. Sean Dillon

History Theater, MN
Watermelon Hill (All the men) - dir. Anya Kremenetsky

Savage Umbrella  (The Umbrella Collective), MN
Penelope (Peisander) - dir. Laura Leffler-McCabe

Campbell Productions, MN 
Failure: A Love Story (John N. Fail) - dir. Josh Campbell

Actors Theatre of Minnesota
Princess Diana, the Musical (Prince Charles) - dir. Ross Young

Playwrights Center, MN
Various

Lincoln Center Institute/Aquila Theatre Company, NY
Twelfth Night (Feste) - dir. Robert Richmond

Smith Street Stage, NY
Romeo & Juliet (Nurse) - dir. Robert Sublett

Cape Rep Theatre, MA
The Woman in Black (Arthur Kipps) - dir. Damien Baldet
Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato) - dir. Victoria E. Flores
Stones in His Pockets (Jake, etc) - dir. Steve Reynolds
Into the West - Tir Na N'Og (Pa, etc) - dir. Noel Carmichael
Side Show (The Boss) - dir. Noel Carmichael
Sunday in the Park with George (Franz/Dennis) - dir. Art Devine

Improv:
HUGE Theater, Long-form Improv instructor and performer
Performing with numerous groups, including Dilly Dally, Bummertown, Foul Play, Yes Anderson, Poivre, and Neutrino MN

Film:
The Wackness (Sundance Award-winner, 2008)(Gruden) - dir. Jonathan Levine
A Cheerful Heart (Dave) - dir. Tom WIlliams for the Mayo Clinic

EDUCATION & TRAINING
New York University: BFA in Acting
Stella Adler Studio of Acting, NY: 4-Year Training Program
Amnesia Wars Productions: Long-form improvisation
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London: Shakespeare Intensive
Brave New Workshop Improv Performance Track

OTHER
HUGE Improv Theater - Managing Director
Oncoming Productions - Founder and Creative Director, frequent writer and producer
     - Geminae, 2018
     - Dread the Halls, 2018
     - The Last Bombardment, 2017
     - Oncoming Productions Ruins Christmas, 2017
     - The Deep Dark, 2016

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