Sean Dennehy

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SEAN DENNEHY Artistic Director of his own company Dennehy Productions. Providing creative and producing consultancy to the industry including IZIT Entertainment , Wilde Applause, Wacky Creative, Stewart + Wall Productions Ozworks International, Metro Arts and Opera Q, dennehyproductions.com 2009-Present. Queensland Executive Producer and Festival Director for the Short+Sweet Theatre worldwide short play festival. 2015 Producer for Metro Arts, working on National and International touring Director of Opera QLD’s Moving Opera from 2008-2012 and Open Stage program 2013. Director and Acting Coach for OperaWorks LA Sean is now director and acting coach on an annual basis in the USA. http://operaworks.org/faculty TV shows: Rake (ABC) Secrets and Lies (ABC) and The Gods of Wheat Street (ABC): Mabo telemovie (ABC) All Saints (CH7), White Collar Blue (CH10), Home & Away, Fox Kids and The Team (Comedy Channel), plus countless TV commercials and corporate video’s. Acting feature film credits include Don’t Tell, Red Curtain Hell, Alien Cargo (US) Streetfighter, Mr. Reliable, Girl Clock and James Cameron’s Sanctum 3D and US Sci-Fi movie GAEA Universe, plus many other award winning short film projects. Sean has written, acted in and produced two award-winning short films It’s Hot http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=olk5UXFPoDI%26feature=plcp and Sean. He was the featured filmmaker at RAW 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=XLBDUNtM6XU%26list=PL3CFA4011DEC9870A Theatre credits include: Wizards From Oz (Taoyung Festival Taiwan) Mercy Thieves (ACGC) Rigoletto, Turandot (Opera QLD) Micro-trip 1 & 2 (Metro Independents) An Unexpectedly Mind Boggling Adventure (Backbone/SLQ) For The Birds (Old Fitzroy) Seems Like Yesterday (Kooemba Jdarra), Hamlet (Darlinghurst), Zoo-Illogical (Schnapperhead) Valley People (MAP) and Hollow Crossing (Markwell Presents) Producing and Directing credits include: Wizards From Oz (Taoyung Festival Taiwan) Australian Sheep Shearing Show and Tiger island (Dreamworld) Underground Opera (The Reservoir) Anzacs Arena Spectacular (Toowoomba Royal Show) Mary Poppins Broadway Musical (Brolga Theatre) Mercy Thieves (ACGC) Opera Re-Imagined (OperaWorks LA 2014) Opera Reconstructed- The Heist (OperaWorks LA 2014) Aria’s In Motion + Seasons Of Love (OperaWorks LA 2013) Active Travel, Stop Look Listen Think and Momentum (Brisbane City Council 2013+14) Step In Time (Mary Poppins Festival 2012) The Planets (Taiwan Lantern Festival 2011) Opracus (Tapei International Arts Festival 2010), Hansel & Gretel (Opera QLD), 12 Days (Moreton Bay Christmas on the Bay) Tradition Impossible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0gmWE2RtI&feature=plcp Space Oddity & Christmas Crackers (Southbank Corp) Micro-trip 1&2 (Metro Arts Independents), the second and third series of Valley People (Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art), Mania (Brisbane Festival Theatre Fringe @ Metro Arts) Co-creator and co-director of the hit show Opracus Stunt Opera http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35brBylLdY4&list=UL, for the Taipei International Arts Festival 2010, The Planets for the 2011 and 2012 Taiwan Lantern Festival and Wizards From Oz Taoyung 2015 After extensive training in Brisbane, Sydney, London and Los Angeles in Method, (Strasberg and Meisner), Practical Aesthetics and specialist film-work, he now teaches his own “method” as well as freelancing for NIDA, Performing Arts Conservatory, Backbone Youth Arts, Academy of Screen Performance, Actors Centre (London), Australian Academy of Acting and various regional arts workshops.