Sean has been working professionally as a lighting designer for 15 years and has a Diploma of Entertainment Technology from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School.
Sean has worked internationally as The Head of Lighting at Soho Theatre in London’s West End and was previously employed as the House Technician at The Court Theatre for 5 years.
He has designed more than 25 productions for the Court Theatre, and his experience ranges from children’s theatre to full scale musicals to lighting installation pieces.
Highlights include, Songs for Nobodies, Stag Weekend, Hamlet: The Video Game (the stage show), Exit the King (The Court Theatre), Di and Viv and Rose (Fusion Productions), Cabaret and A Comedy of Errors (NASDA).
He has also been responsible for designing a number of well-known items including the large, illuminated tunnel in the Tirama Mai celebration and the St Andrews College graduation performance of Stairway to Heaven that went viral at the end of 2023.
Sean and Mark Hadlow have worked together for many years as Sean is responsible for the touring lighting design of MAMIL (Middle Aged Man in Lycra), as well as working together in a director/designer team on a number of productions.
Sean is currently employed at The Light Site, Christchurch’s premiere lighting company for events and theatre.
Court Shows
- 2024 - Mr and Mrs Macbeth of Heathcote Valley Road - Lighting Designer
- 2023 - Cinderella - Lighting Designer
- 2017 - Jack and the Beanstalk - Lighting Designer | Sound and Lighting Operator
- 2017 - Ropable - Sound Designer
- 2017 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Lighting and Sound Operator
- 2017 - Uncle Vanya - Sound Designer
- 2017 - Hamlet: The Video Game (the stage show) - Lighting Designer
- 2016 - Winston's Birthday - Lighting Designer
- 2016 - Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joanne - Sound Designer
- 2016 - The Dunstan Creek Seance - Lighting Designer | Operator
- 2016 - Educating Rita - Lighting Designer
- 2016 - The Streaker - Lighting Designer | Operator
- 2016 - Puss in Boots - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - Shepherd - Sound Designer
- 2015 - Le Sud - Sound Designer | Operator
- 2015 - Alice in Wonderland in the Attic - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - Constellations - Operator
- 2015 - Romeo and Juliet - Sound Designer | Operator
- 2015 - Niu Sila - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - The Cat in the Hat - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - The Ladykillers - Sound Designer and Operator
- 2015 - Little Red Riding Hood - Lighting Designer
- 2015 - Exit the King - Lighting Designer
- 2014 - You Can Always Hand Them Back - Lighting Operator
- 2014 - Stag Weekend - Lighting Designer
- 2014 - When The Rain Stops Falling - Sound Designer | Lighting and Sound Operator
- 2014 - End of the Rainbow - Lighting Operator
- 2014 - Cinderella Meets Aladdin - Lighting Designer
- 2014 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Lighting and Sound Operator
- 2014 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Sound Facilitator
- 2014 - The Emperor's New Clothes - Lighting Designer
- 2014 - Blood Brothers - Lighting Operator
- 2014 - Plum - Sound Designer | Lighting and Sound Operator
- 2013 - The Women - Sound Designer | Operator
- 2013 - Beauty and the Beast - Lighting Designer
- 2013 - Kings of the Gym - Operator
- 2013 - The Great Art War - Sound Operator
- 2013 - Mean Jean the Pirate Queen - Lighting Designer
- 2013 - SNAP! - Sound Designer | Operator
- 2013 - Postal - Lighting Designer
- 2013 - August: Osage County - Technical Operator
- 2012 - Much Ado About Nothing - Operator
- 2012 - The Motor Camp - Sound Designer | LX Operator
- 2012 - Man in a Suitcase - Sound Designer
- 2012 - The Slapdash Assassin - Sound Designer | Operator
- 2012 - The Gingerbread Man - Lighting Designer
- 2012 - Pacific Post - Operator
- 2012 - Pacific Post - Operator
- 2012 - A Very Merry Scriptless: In The Grotto - Technical Design