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SEAN HARRIS OLIVER
Nationality:
Canadian
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Sean is a writer, actor, and the Co-Artistic Director of Hardline Productions, a theatre company based out of Vancouver, Canada. His short film Letters from a Stone Cold Killer was shortlisted for the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition in 2013 and was subsequently produced and released by Scopitone Films. He is currently developing two feature length screenplays, as well as a theatre script titled The Fighting Season, a play that focuses on NATO health care workers returning from Afghanistan, premiering this fall. Up next, Sean's two-act play Bright Blue Future (a finalist for the Theatre BC Playwriting Competition and American Actors UK Award) will receive its professional world premiere in February 2016.
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Bright Blue Future
Synopsis:
Arianna and Alexandra a couple go out with gay friend Carston. At the club Carston picks up Josh
Notes:
finalist for the Theatre BC Playwriting Competition and American Actors UK Award
1st Produced:
Pacific Theatre, Vancouver
2016
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Digital edition: Playwrights Guild of Canada
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Genre:
Gay and Lesbian drama full length
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Eight Seconds
Synopsis:
Inside a rodeo corral near Calgary, Alberta, a young man trains to become a bronco rider under the watchful eye of his cowboy father.
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The Samuel French staff would like to congratulate the 30 playwrights selected to participate in the 40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival! Chosen from nearly fifteen-hundred submissions (a record breaking number) both in the U.S. and abroad, these 30 plays will be presented in New York from August 3 9, 2015. Out of these plays, six winners will be selected by the Samuel French, Inc. editorial staff to receive publication and licensing contracts.
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40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, NY
03 Aug 2015
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short play
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Fighting Season, The
Synopsis:
focuses on NATO health care workers returning from Afghanistan
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Redpatch
Synopsis:
World War One and an indigenous man joins up and is sent to Europe to fight
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Written by Sean Harris Oliver and Raes Calvert
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Genre:
Historical drama
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Soldier's Wife, The
Synopsis:
Trevor has been sent home from Afghanistan to Vancouver in a coma. His wife Debbie has to fight to get what she considers the right treatment for him
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Drama
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