Sean Dillon
Last updated
February 1, 2023
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
Eligible to perform: AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and stage non-union
SELECT CREDITS:
NOW PLAYING:
March 17 - April 2, 2023
By the Bog of Cats, dir. by Amber Bjork - Theatre Pro Rata
https://www.theatreprorata.org/bogofcats/
Stage (representative):
Dangerous Productions, MN:
All Your White Darlings (Sam) - dir. Tyler Olsen and Also Bruno
Walking Shadow Theater Company, MN
The Ugly One (Lette - the Ugly One) - dir. Amy Rummenie
Michael Rogers Productions, MN
CHORUS (The Choir Director) - dir. Michael Rogers
Oncoming Productions, MN
Geminae (Howard Boyle) - dir. Becky Hauser, Anna Crace
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 Attenborough, DillyDallHaus, 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
- Dead North Podcast/Blight Christmas Podcast, 2020-2022
- Geminae, 2018/19
- Five Fifths of Mary Poppins, 2018
- Dread the Halls, 2018
- The Last Bombardment, 2017
- Oncoming Productions Ruins Christmas, 2017
- The Deep Dark, 2016
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