Who is Sean? 

Sean Guy is a Darwin-based author, playwright, and screenwriter with a passion for storytelling in all its forms. As an advocate for small business, independent arts, and youth literacy, his efforts have been recognised with an NT Young Achiever Award (Career Achievement) in 2023, and he was a finalist for the NT Young Achiever Awards (Connecting Communities) in 2024. 

Sean started young as a writer. Before graduating high school in 2011 with an International Baccalaureate diploma, he won the NT Young Author Awards for his region in three consecutive years, wrote three plays which were produced by local high school theatre classes, and on work experience, became the first sixteen-year-old to write a front-page story for the NT News. 

Skip ahead to 2018: after many years of writing and editing, Sean's first novel Malediction: The Cursed Play was published, followed shortly by the Tower City Chronicles. Books 1 - 3 in this urban fantasy series are out now, with 4 and 5 due by the end of 2027.

As a writer and bookseller, Sean spends his time between projects supporting and working with community organisations such as Brown's Mart, Darwin Pride, the Children's Book Council, the NT Writers' Centre, libraries, and more. He often mentors emerging writers and does his best to involve other creatives from his community in all his projects. 

Alongside his novels, Sean is known for his plays, which have been performed in almost every state of Australia. Sean's comedic-murder-mystery play Under the Table won a Literary Award in 2022, and the sequel Death of the Human Resource won the Darwin Fringe Theatre Award in 2024. Sean is currently developing many new works, and undertaking training placements and residencies. 

Sean has been part of several Fringe Festivals, including Darwin and Adelaide. Shows that he has written, produced, acted in, or some combination of the above, have sold out tours and won several awards. 

In the world of screenwriting, Sean has seen some success. His short films Enough (2022) and Hephaestion (2023) debuted at the Darwin International Film Festival, and with the support of Screen Territory, Sean has also written a feature length screenplay and undertaken an AFTRS TV-writing course. His next project for screen, a TV show, has formally entered a development phase with Screen Australia funding and the mentorship of Marieke Hardy. 

In Sean's spare time, he enjoys trivia, learning Spanish, board games, movies, and reading.