Sean Dunnington is a New York-based playwright from the Big Island of Hawai'i. His plays include Inversion, Untitled Hitler Play, Jew Bash, The Children's Farm, Zap, Flat Fish, and Hawaiian Shake. His work has been produced nationally and internationally, with workshops and readings in Hawai'i, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Singapore, as well as in libraries, museums, old basements, public radio stations, indie film festivals, and LGBTQ+ centers. Dunnington has held artistic residencies with the East-West Center, Ka Waiwai Collective, The Workshop Theater, Orchard Project (Audio Lab), and the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office. He has received fellowships from the Dramatists Guild Foundation, Magic Theatre, Creative Labs Hawai'i, and the Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing. He won the 2021 California Arts Council's Emerging Artist Award and was named a 2024-2025 Henry Luce Scholar, during which he spent a year in Singapore as a Visiting Resident Playwright at Centre 42. He is the founding director of Tree Moss Hawaiʻi (est. 2021), a collective of emerging and established Hawaiʻi playwrights who center new play development, advocacy, and strengthening the theatrical landscape of Hawaiʻi. He earned his M.F.A. at NYU Tisch.
At MacDowell, Dunnington reconceived his plays Untitled Hitler Play and Jew Bash.
Sean Dunnington
Studios
Delta Omicron
Sean Dunnington worked in the Delta Omicron studio.
Delta Omicron Studio was funded by members of the international musical fraternity in 1927. The building design is somewhat medieval in character, with an unusual cedar shingle pattern, a steeply pitched slate roof, intersecting gables, and small windows. After a 2016 deep-energy renovation, Delta Omicron Studio is now one of the…