Sean Aita
Sean Aita trained as a classical actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and has performed professionally in a wide range of genres on stage, film, television, and radio. He is an award winning theatre director and playwright. Performance highlights include appearing in Ingmar Bergmann’s Hamlet at the National Theatre, working with Anthony Mingella in originating the role of Walter in one of his first plays Two Planks and a Passion, playing Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband at the Westminster Theatre opposite Jeremy Sinden, and working in the West End musical Buddy. Sean moved into directing by observing/assisting at the Royal Opera House, and English National Opera before starting his own company Animus in London with fellow BOVTS actor Adam Henderson. He subsequently became Associate Director at the Royal Theatre Northampton, where he won the Checkout Theatre award for his play Yallery Brown, co-produced with Forkbeard Fantasy which subsequently transferred to Greenwich Theatre. He has had a twenty five year association with Vienna’s English Theatre in Austria where he has written, adapted and directed work seen by over 200,000 young people each year. As artistic director of regional touring theatre company Forest Forge, Sean’s work was short-listed for the Stage Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre, for his season of productions in 2005/06. At Forest Forge Sean produced the company’s first ever international co-production with Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador commissioning award winning writers Nell Leyshon and Robert Chafe. As a writer Sean’s play Bin-it won the live event category of the 2009 International Visual Communications Association Clarion awards recognising best practice in communicating the importance of CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate. Sean has published extensively on theatre and led acting workshops in Geneva, Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Plays authored
Past productions
- Virtual Heroes, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Quel Tartuffe, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Huis Clos, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Othello, Shakespeare in Styria
- Director, Le Petit Prince, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Twelfth Night, Shakespeare in Styria
- Director, L’Ecole des Femmes, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Antigone, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, A Wild Weekend, Forest Forge
- Writer and Producer, To the Marrow, Forest Forge
- Director, As You Like It, Guildford Shakespeare / Yvonne Arnaud
- Director, Butler’s Marsh, Forest Forge
- Producer, New Found Lands, Forest Forge
- Director, Twelfth Night, Guildford Shakespeare / Yvonne Arnaud
- Director, Le Malade Imaginaire, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, The Country Wife, Forest Forge
- Director, Dangerous Obsession, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, A Dog’s Life, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Piege Pour Un Homme Seul, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Raising the Roof, Forest Forge Theatre Company
- Director, A Perfect Match , Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, The Belle of Bonavista Bay, Forest Forge
- Director, Hotmail from Helsinki, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, The Last Yankee, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Around the World in 80 Days, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Blue Girl, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Say Who You Are, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, La Lecon, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, The Farm, Strode Theatre
- Director, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Millennium, Vienna’s English Theatre
- director, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director & writer, Yallery Brown
- Director, Antigone, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, A Gold Star for Elizabeth , Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, Deathtrap, Jill Freud and Company and Southwold Summer Theatre
- Director, Le Petit Prince, Theatre Francais de Vienne
- Director, Killed July 17th 1916, Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, An Ideal Husband, Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, Love Hurts, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Huckleberry Finn, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, The Song from the Sea , Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, The Jungle Book , Royal Youth Theatre Northampton
- Director, Beggars Cant Be Choosers, Royal Theatre, Northampton
- Director, The Last Yankee, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Crusoe, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, Dracula, Vienna’s English Theatre
- Director, My Children! My Africa!, Vienna’s English Theatre