Director | Creator | Team Leader
Building shows that are easy to love.
Founding Artistic Director - Devil's Isle Shakespeare Company (Bermuda)
Associate Artistic Director - Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (Baltimore, MD)
Associate Artistic Director - Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (Baltimore, MD)
Theatre is teamwork. As a team leader, I view my role as a trusted servant of the cast and the production. I firmly believe that the rehearsal process can be simultaneously loving and professional. If you want to know more about this, I encourage you to ask any of the actors or stage managers that I have worked with recently. Let them tell you about me.
I build productions with music and movement that invite the audience to exercise their imaginative muscles. I don't want a lavishly expensive set; I would rather pick up a shoe and convince the audience that it's a dog or a bomb or a payphone. My experience is that, if the invitation is correct, the audience will always RSVP "Yes."
I am not interested in theatre as a form of luxury entertainment. I love working with theatre companies that make themselves easily accessible to a broad and diverse audience--and on productions that treat real problems like isolation, apathy, over-digitization, and spiritual pain.
I build productions with music and movement that invite the audience to exercise their imaginative muscles. I don't want a lavishly expensive set; I would rather pick up a shoe and convince the audience that it's a dog or a bomb or a payphone. My experience is that, if the invitation is correct, the audience will always RSVP "Yes."
I am not interested in theatre as a form of luxury entertainment. I love working with theatre companies that make themselves easily accessible to a broad and diverse audience--and on productions that treat real problems like isolation, apathy, over-digitization, and spiritual pain.
"Accessible, snappy, and inviting... We feel nice, like sugar and spice!" - The Washington Post
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Training & Affiliations
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EDUCATION
STC Academy (GWU) - MFA, 2017 Cornell University - B.A. English & Theatre Arts (4.0 GPA), 2012 DEVIL'S ISLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Séamus is the Founding Artistic Director of Devil's Isle, Bermuda's professional Shakespeare Theatre. All of their productions are free for students. Séamus co-created a musical version of The Tempest with Emily Erickson, which performed for sold out crowds at site-specific locations across the island in 2024 & 2025. www.devils-isle.org CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Séamus has been a Company Member at CSC since 2014, and he now serves as the Associate Artistic Director & Major Gifts Officer. He has directed the best-selling productions in the company's history, both indoors (A Christmas Carol, 2024) & outdoors (Much Ado About Nothing, 2022), as well as the student matinee productions of Macbeth & Romeo & Juliet, which have been seen by tens of thousands of students. www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com |