sean swenson
I’m a queer playwright, screenwriter, performer, and occasional musician from Austin, Texas. I write about: internet culture, history, insufferable people, blood, loneliness, heartbreak.
I live in Brooklyn with two cats and recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
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RECENTLY
🧨 Art Gets What it Wants, presented by Max’s House Productions at The Tank, an NYC home for emerging artists.
🌎 Half World was a semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Ojai Playwrights Conference, and SheNYC.
😈 Homeresteia (ten-minute) was presented by Fresh Binder Productions at Center for West Park.
🫀 Half World was presented by Honigman and Sons at East Village Basement.
🩸 The Ruins (TV pilot about syphilis) was a semifinalist in the Alfred P. Sloan/CMU script competition and Austin Film Festival.
UP NEXT
💻 Half World at Ghost Light Theatre Company, summer 2026, NYC.
♠️ Nancy, summer 2026, NYC.
(video from Repo Man, dir. Alex Cox, 1984)