Sean Dunnington is a New York–based playwright from Hawai‘i Island.

His plays include Failed Artist, Jew Bash, The Children's Farm, Zap, Flat Fish, and Hawaiian Shake. His work has been produced nationally and internationally, with premieres and showings at TheatreLab (Off-Broadway), Magic Theatre, Lounge Theatre, LAMDA, Centre 42, as well as in libraries, state museums, old attics, public radio stations, film festivals, and LGBTQ+ centers.

Sean has been a resident playwright with the Orchard Project, Centre 42, East-West Center, Waiwai Collective, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai‘i, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, the California Arts Council, and the Henry Luce Foundation.

He is the founding director of Tree Moss (est. 2021), a collective for emerging and established Hawai‘i playwrights, which received the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Catalyst Fellowship.

Sean’s belief in the expansive potential of playwriting extends beyond the stage to maps and communal healing processes. He employs playwriting as a tool for individuals to voice their own narratives and foster mutual understanding among one another.

Sean holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2024) and a BA in Applied Playwriting from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands (2019).

He is currently based in Singapore as a 2024–2025 Henry Luce Scholar, serving as Visiting Resident Playwright at Centre 42, where he teaches monthly workshops on theatricality and is developing a new work: Untitled Mars Play.