Bio & CV

Sean Pollock (he/they) is a bicoastal Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary writer, director, creative producer, designer, teaching artist, and sometimes performer from Mountain Lakes, NJ. As a child performer, he appeared in the touring production of The New Kid, including its Off-Broadway production at the York Theatre. As a teenager, he attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Upstate NY. He appeared in many other local plays and musicals in the tri-state area and Research Triangle Park area.

Select directing/playwriting credits include: Keep Your Enemies Closer (adultfilmnyc, SemiFinalist - UCF Pegasus Playlab), Virginia Tells It All (Parking Space Comedy, LA, Quarterfinalist - Screencraft, Winner - Best Full Length Play, IFT Network International Film & Theatre Festival) Up In Flames (Annoyance Theatre Chicago), This Is A Play About Newscasters (Austin College, TX), The Bed Show (Philly Theatre Week), American Juggalo (HERE Arts Center).

Off-Broadway: Donnie & Greg (SoHo Playhouse & Brooklyn Art Haus), Cowl Girl (Players Theatre), The Bed Show (SoHo Playhouse), A Very…Scientology Pageant - LIVE! (14th St. Y), Trump Rally (Theatre Row).

TV/Film: A Very…Scientology Pageant - LIVE! (IFT Network), The Omega-3: A Climate Change Adventure (Museum Of Natural History), We’ve Been…About Your Car’s Extended Warranty (NomadTV Festival, Global Shorts Festival, Lift Off Global Festival UK, Widescreen Film & Music Festival, now streaming on KoldOpen), Protect The Pigeons…(Lonely Wolf Festival, Absurd Film Festival, Red Film Festival, Magma Film Festival), Global Shorts Festival), Solo Act (LIU Brooklyn). He is currently developing an hour long pilot, Superspreader, which recently received a staged reading at The Lambs Club NYC.

They are one of the founders and current Artistic Director of Unattended Baggage. He also has associate/assistant directed at A.R.T NY, Theater For The New City, and The O’Neil Theatre.

They also founded the Macabre Theatre Ensemble at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY where they directed the U.S College Premiere of Carrie: The Musical (among other credits). They’ve also worked for Soho Playhouse, The York Theater Company, The Actors Temple, Playlight Theatre Company, The Dirty Blondes Theatre Company, NewMusicalTheatre.com, Misfits For Democracy, LIU Brooklyn TV Writers Studio, Shingetsu News Agency, & the Vancouver International Film Festival.

In their spare time, they can be found collaging, collecting limited edition candies and sodas, taking pictures on disposable cameras, and embarking on random sidequests. 

Training: TV Writers Studio (MFA, Norman Steinberg Scholar), Ithaca College (BA), NTI, Directors Lab North, Directors Lab Chicago, Directors Lab West. Dramatists Guild Member.