Seán Gallen

Seán is an Irish/Martinican playwright and filmmaker whose work has been featured in The Irish Times, at Disney+ as well as the Dublin Theatre Festival.

He grew up in Clondalkin before moving to Glasgow to study Film and Television and English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He then moved to Berlin in 2014 where he worked on film sets and in physical theatre for a year before he began writing, directing and producing his own short films, music videos, documentaries and web-series.

In 2023, he won a place on the Rachel Baptiste Programme at Smock Alley Theatre where he developed his first major work for the stage, ”The Peace Keeper” which had a preview staging at the Dublin Theatre Festival.