Sean Michael McCord
Sean Michael McCord is a writer living in Charlottesville, Virginia. He studied film at UCLA and spent his twenties as a budding screenwriter in Los Angeles before moving first to New York and then crossing south of the Mason-Dixon line. Sean has had plays produced in Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado, California, South Carolina, and Stuttgart, Germany. He is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting as a member of the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University. He was a 2018 John Cauble Award finalist at KCACTF4 for his one-act Mystery At Midnight and won the 2018 SETC Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, the 2019 KCACTF David Shelton Award, and the 2019 Kennedy Center National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting (NAPAT) Award for his full-length playscript Moving. He has been an invited Playwright Observer at the O'Neill Center National Playwrights Conference and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the New Play Exchange. In addition to his own writing, Sean helps produce new works through the Charlottesville Playwrights Collective at CVillePlays