Sean Dunnington is a queer/jewish playwright from Hawai’i Island, usually found in NYC or Honolulu (currently in Singapore!?).

His work has been presented in Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country, as well as local libraries and galleries, state museums, old attics, public radio stations, international/national film festivals, and LGBTQ+ centers.

He’s been in artistic residence with the East-West Center, Waiwai Collective, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center.

He’s been a fellow with the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Orchard Project, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai’i, National Collaborative for Health Equity, California Arts Council, The Asia Foundation, and Henry Luce Foundation.

He is the Founding Director of Tree Moss (est. 2021), the first-ever collective for emerging and established playwrights in Hawai’i, which has recently been awarded the Dramatist Guild Foundation’s Catalyst Fellowship.

In his free time, Sean facilitates free writing workshops for non-profits, public schools, and community centers across Hawai’i. And he wants to do more!

Sean's belief in the expansive potential of playwriting extends beyond the stage to maps and communal healing processes. Sean employs playwriting as a tool for individuals to voice their own narratives and foster mutual understanding amongst one another. He thinks playwriting lives everywhere.

Sean received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2024 and his (self-designed) BA in Applied Playwriting from the University of Redlands’ Johnston Center for Integrative Studies in 2019.

Sean is currently in Singapore as a 2024-2025 Henry Luce Scholar, with a placement at Centre 42 as a Visiting Resident Playwright.