SEAN DONOVAN

Sean Donovan is a Brooklyn based actor, dancer, and writer. He was born in the tiny town of Hopewell Junction, New York in the Hudson Valley. At 18 he moved to NYC and, with the exception of a 9-month stay in Bangkok, Thailand and occasional touring, has never left since. When not working with the inimitable Jennie MaryTai Liu, he is also a member of the critically acclaimed Witness Relocation Theatre Company (with whom he has been making work both nationally and abroad for the past ten years), and performs with the Bessie Award winning Jane Comfort and Company.

In New York, he has performed as an actor and dancer at such places as The Kitchen, PS122, HERE Arts Center, Joyce SoHo, The Duke, The Ontological Hysteric Theatre, The Ohio Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, La MaMa ETC, Theatre for the New City, Dixon Place, Galapagos Arts Space, and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Recent credits include Soul Leaves Her Body at HERE Arts Center; Faith Healing at Joyce SoHo; Vicious Dogs on Premises at the Ontological Hysteric Theatre and a European tour to France, Poland, and Russia; and Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale at the Castleton Opera Festival conducted by the world-renowned Lorin Maazel.
As a writer he was a 2008 Brooklyn Arts Council grant recipient with which he created The Climate Chronicles: Equator with Sebastián Calderón-Bentin at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Other original works include Se Vende, also in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón-Bentin at the FAE Festival in Panama; Not Unclear at New York University, and Sublimate at Galapagos Art Space.

He received his BFA in Theatre from New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. As a dancer, he continues to train at the Merce Cunningham Studio in Manhattan. He has trained and performed internationally in France, Holland, Romania, Poland, Russia, Panama, Canada, Thailand and Japan working with the highly acclaimed Ildi! Eldi of France and Sankai Juku Butoh company of Japan.

He currently lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with his boyfriend Felix. He has no pets, but sometimes wishes he had more time for a dog. In November of 2011 he will premiere his newest work in collaboration with Sebastián Calderón-Bentin in the Incubator Series at St. Mark's Church.