Theatre engages the most important aspect of empathy when building an egalitarian society: an understanding of other people as complex - distant but similar. Much like ourselves, they are not like anyone else. I make theatre of love, joy, hate, and pain to till our social soil with compassion, solidarity, courage, and empathy.
Fascism cannot root in such passionately cared for soil.
SDF
Biography
Sean Dance Fannin is a queer dramatist born and raised in Kentucky.
Sean Dance's first play, Dead Wait, premiered at DramaCentre in Danville, Kentucky in 2017. In 2019 Derby City Playwrights invited Sean to develop The Airplane Game for the 2020 Festival of New Plays. While The Airplane Game finished development, the staging was cancelled due to COVID-19. During the pandemic Sean developed multiple pieces with DCSG Theatre, a digital theatre company. in this time Sean Dance also created "Come and See," a podcast miniseries about plays aimed at persuading book readers to consider and admire published play texts as unique and valuable literature. In 2023, The Coachella Review published Sean Dance's short play A New Color Every Day.
In 2021 Sean moved to Chicago to further pursue writing, co-founding Theatre Contronym in Spring of 2022. The company was founded to experiment with new process structures to achieve a truly egalitarian environment for theatre artists. For the inaugural production, Theatre Contronym staged Sean Dance's Sunflower with no director as an experiment in destabilizing hierarchy.
Sean Dance is currently based in Chicago, occupying most of the spare time available writing and taking care of Morty, a Kentucky Mountain Mutt.