Scriptwriter/Director/Producer for TV, audio, film and animation production and development.
Scriptwriting Awards - Tinniswood and Sony 'Best Audio Drama' nominations ('The Recordist' and 'Far Side Of The Moore'), Imison 'Best Writer' nomination ('Cavity'), and BBC Audio Award nomination ('Tolkien In Love').
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Scriptwriter/Director/Producer for TV, audio, film and animation production and development.
Scriptwriting Awards - Tinniswood and Sony 'Best Audio Drama' nominations ('The Recordist' and 'Far Side Of The Moore'), Imison 'Best Writer' nomination ('Cavity'), and BBC Audio Award nomination ('Tolkien In Love').
Directing Awards - 2 International Emmys (for C4 comedy-drama 'Sugar Rush' (lead director) & ZDF/C4/Smithsonian drama 'Hindenburg'), 3 BAFTA nominations (for C4 documentary 'F***ing Fulfords', 'Sugar Rush' and BBC educational science series 'Short Circuit'), plus an RTS award ('Short Circuit') and RTS nomination (for C4 comedy-drama series 'Teachers').
Began career in TV as a promo-scriptwriter at Granada TV, then wrote and directed on comedy & LE shows with Caroline Aherne, Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thompson, Craig Ferguson and Dave Spikey. Moved into directing documentaries. Briefly sidestepped into teaching as senior lecturer in media studies and documentary for HND, BA and MA degrees at Salford University for two years.
Returned to TV, writing, directing and producing on lifestyle and factual shows, then moved into scripted comedy and drama. Appointed Head of Factual Drama for Pioneer TV developing fact-based dramas, plus factual and fact.ent development. Alongside this, started writing dramas for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds including original and fact-based plays.
After running Factual Drama, returned to directing and scriptwriting on True-crime dramadocs in the US and Canada.
Since pandemic, continued to work across unscripted and scripted. Has produced/directed and written over 200+ hours of TV and scripted 30+ hours of audio drama.
Experienced and highly-skilled across many genres from drama to docs and everything in between from archive-shows, branded-content, docudrama, educational, factual, fact.ent, fact.drama, lifestyle, light.ent, historical, obdoc, narrative comedy, science, scripted reality, sketch, sitcom, stand-up shows and True-crime. This eclectic career across genres is testament to a deep understanding of the craft of film-making and a passion for TV. (Sean is also developing an epic podcast series looking at the history of TV as a cultural force.)
Most recently, adapted own BBC drama ‘Cavity’ into the musical feature film, 'tHE iNVISIBLES' which was released this year.
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