Seán Cummings
| Seán Cummings | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ontario |
| Occupation | Actor, Director, Playwright |
| Notable credit(s) | Bent, Poor Super Man, Broken, Crossing, Falling In Time |
Seán Cummings is a Canadian actor, playwright, producer, and director from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Ontario on January 17, 1968.
He is a founder of Meta for Theatre Company and served as co-artistic director from 2004 to 2008, later serving as artistic director of Screaming Weenie from 2008 to 2012. In 2012 he returned to Meta for Theatre as the company's Artistic Producer.[1]
As a director, Cummings is known as the director of the stage versions of Lambda Literary Award nominee C. E. Gatchalian's plays Crossing, Broken[2] and Falling In Time.[3]
As an actor, his roles have included Pyrgopolynices in Miles Gloriosus, Jason in Take Me Out and Bertram in All's Well That Ends Well In late 2007, he delivered a critically acclaimed performance in the Vancouver production of Bent, a play about homosexuals in Germany under the Nazis.[4][5] In early 2008, he played David in a revival of Brad Fraser's Poor Super Man.
As a playwright, his credits include Chasing Home,[6] staged by Screaming Weenie in 2012.
Roles
Theatre
- The Odd Couple - Speed (VACT)
- Poor Super Man - David (Saving Metropolis)
- Bent - Max (Meta.for Theatre)
- Moonlight and Magnolias - Voice of Leyland Hayward (Vancouver Playhouse)
- Miles Gloriosus - Pyrgopolynices (Jericho Arts Centre)
- Take Me Out - Jason (Raving Theatre)
- On The Way Down - Thomas (Vancouver Fringe)
- Warriors - Gilles(Street Rep)
- All's Well That Ends Well - Bertram(Theatre Inconnu)
Film/Television
- Hell Of A Wedding (Film) - Squelch Pictures
- Vale Of Tears (Film) - VFS
- Two Tickets To Cairo (Film) - Kitchen Films
- Past Midnight (Film) - National Film Board of Canada
Directing
Theatre
- Bi, Hung, Fit and Married by Mark Bentley Cohen
- Falling In Time (Performance Works)
- I Confess (Firehall Arts Centre)
- Who Beat Rocky? (Firehall Arts Centre)
- Men Like Trees (UBC)
- Broken (Firehall Arts Centre)
- Crossing (Playwright's Theatre Centre)
Film/Television
- Bend In The River - Screaming Weenie
- Urban Zoo - CineVic
Producing
Theatre
- Julius Caesar (Mad Duck Theatre Collective)
- The Tempest (Mad Duck Theatre Collective)
- The Real Inspector Hound (Esdecy Arts/Presentation House)
Film/Television
- Flush - Base 9 Studios/Crazy 8s
- Urban Zoo - CineVic
Awards
Wins
- Flush - Best Film (Reel Island Film Festival)
Project Awards and Nominations
- Broken - One Nomination (Jessie Richarson Awards)
- Flush - One Win and Six Nominations (Leo Awards)
- Julius Caesar - Two Nominations (Jessie Richarson Awards)
- The Tempest - One Nomination (Jessie Richarson Awards)
Official Selections
- Flush - Montreal World Film Festival
- Flush - North-By-Northwest Film Festival
- Flush - Whistler Film Festival
References
- ↑ http://www.metafortheatre.ca/company_aboutus.html
- ↑ http://www.straight.com/arts/broken
- ↑ http://www.screamingweenie.com/show_fallingintime.html
- ↑ BCNG Portals Page (R)
- ↑ http://www.straight.com/article-117352/bent
- ↑ http://www.screamingweenie.com/show_chasinghome.html