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SEAN GAFFNEY SHORT FILMS / TELEVISION Superbook, pilot and two additional episodes, plus show bible, Christian Broadcast Network One on One, short film, with Dean Batail, Stonewater Films Paging Dr. Peter, training film, with Charity Parenzini, Seattle Children’s Hospital. Winner, Silver 30th Annual Telly Awards, Employee Communications category, Film/Video Cards, The Car Wash, and Golf Talk, short film scripts under option by Boy & Rocket Films My Babysitter Is an Alien, television pilot, Dave Barnett producer Child Safety Advisory, Don’t Talk to Strangers, Daddy, Under Control, The Miracle Show, I Can Explain That, short films, Yake Films, “Carmen’s Reality Check” The Dracula Files: Derrick’s Visit, short film Cookies, Innovation for Innovation’s Sake, Corporate Health, Scouting Trip, Paper Airplane, short films, Yake Films, Healthways The Stand, Alone, Happy Cabby, School Days, The Training Session, Sheep and Goats, The Bridge, short films, Yake Films, “Dare to Be a Daniel” series, Billy Graham Evangelical Association The Importance of Blind Dating, Dharma Road, LA, Bronze Remi Award – Worldfest, Official Selection – Methodfest, Official Selection -- Flatland Film Festival, Finalist -- USA Film Festival It’s a Living, Quarter Finalist, Fade In Magazine 9th Annual Awards Joan of Arcadia: Angel of Fire (spec script) awarded Third Place in the 2004 Writer’s Digest Screenplay/Teleplay Competition; and a finalist in the Acclaim Film and Television Spring 2004 TV Competition Monk: Mr. Monk and the Bowl Full of Jelly (spec script) 2004 Austin Film Festival Prime Time Competition Second Rounder; and Quarter Finalist, 12th Annual Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition I’ve Preached Everywhere Man, Paul’s Jailhouse Rock, League of Super Churches, The Wicked Tenants, Darth Daddy, Calvin Birthday Roast, We Have a Name, Witness Protection, The Janitor, Irreplaceable, Barbarians at the BBQ, We Are One, Who Needs Salt?, Behind the Music: David Jesseson, After the Passion, The Burning Bush, Sardis, Satan’s Biography, Thomas Aquinas, The Anti-Stewardship, short films, Bel Air Drama Dept.
VIDEO / DVD King George and the Ducky, Premise and Outline, Big Idea/VeggieTales The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, from story by Mark Twain, Globalstage, named Editor’s Choice: Best Videos of 2000 by American Library Association/Booklist The Island of Dr. Moreau, based on novel by H. G. Wells, Globalstage How Much Land Does a Man Need, from story by Leo Tolstoy, Globalstage Larryboy in Leggo My Ego, Big Idea/VeggieTales Angel Wars: Over the Moon, Story, TeleStory Toons Angel Wars: Guardian Force, Story Consultant, TeleStory Toons Taproot Theatre 25th Anniversary Video, documentary, edited and directed by Mark Lund Veggie Town Values, Greetings, script for ten VBS video greetings, Big Idea/VeggieTales
STAGE PLAYS Professionally produced plays include: Deadline, music by Tony Troy; Dream On!, music by Randy West, co-author Jennifer Schuchmann, additional music and lyrics by Raymond Schnurr; Superhero High, music by Randy West; The Whitmore Christmas Extravaganza; What the Dickens!; The Invisible Man, music by Randy West; The Christmas Charity Murder; A Knight in the Book; Christmas on the Air; Sleepwalking; Witness to the Light; Walt Wangerin’s The Manager Is Empty; Christmas Memories; The Interrogation; Pilate’s Progress, co-authored with Karen Lund; Moreau; Christmas on the Orpheum Circuit; Pahom’s Land; The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg; Parable Paradox, music by Samuel Vance; Stages of Christmas, co-authored by Karen Lund, music by Drew Harding; Foolish Wiseman
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND PLAYS Scripts of Hope & Restoration, co-author, Lillenas Publishing Larryboy and the Sinister Snowday, a VeggieTales chapter book, Zondervan Publishing (32,000 copies in print) Foolish Wiseman, Lillenas Publishing Larryboy and the Emporer of Envy, a VeggieTales chapter book, Zondervan Publishing (73,500 copies in print) Drama Ministry Jumpstart, Contributer, Communication Resources Witness to the Light, Easter Pageant, published by Communication Resources Pahom’s Land, Communication Resources The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg, Communication Resources Approaching the Arts: A Christian Perspective, Master Thesis, Hammerstein Center for Theatre Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES “Remember!” “Irrelevance,” Transpositions, The Journal of the Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship “Saturday Act One: The Pitch,” “Coming Up Short,” “Everyone’s a Critic,” Only Connect “How I Sold My First Video,” Hey, Ma, I Got Published!, Christian Writer’s Seminar “Creation’s Story,” Christianity and Theatre “Telling a Great Tale,” “The Still, Small Voice in Hollywood,” Encore Magazine “A Less-Than-Glamorous Melancholy,” The Crossing Primary and Preschool Takehome Letters for Veggie Town Values On the Job; Vacation Bible School Program, Big Idea “Background Acting,” “Line, Please,” “Lights Up on a New Drama Ministry,” “Organic Blocking,” “Integrating Music in Drama,” “Building an Event,” “Youth and Drama,” “Reader’s Theatre Pitfalls,” “The Role of the Director,” Drama Ministry Magazine “A Believer’s Argument in Favor of Nothing Sacred,” Green Lake Reflections Movie Reviews, Movieguide: “...And God Spoke,” “My Fair Lady”,” The Greatest Show On Earth,” “A Place in the World,” “White,” “My Life's In Turnaround”, “Go Fish”
PUBLICATIONS: SKETCHES “Mary at the Foot of the Cross,” “Pergamum Seven, Smyrna Seven,” “Hello, You’re On the Air,” “Truth, Justice and the Comics,” “Christian Stereo Types,” “At the Dance,” “Samantha,” “Lazarus,” “I Wanted to be a Cowboy,” “Just Soaking My Feet,” “Voices,” “Dear John, Part I & II,” “The Writing Room,” Drama Ministry Magazine
RELATED EXPERIENCE Story Administrator, Warner Bros. Features Freelance Script Consultant Blue Ribbon Panel Contest Judge, Angelus Awards, Animation Division Senior Lecturer, Biola University, English Department and Film/Television/Radio Department Taproot Theatre, Managing Director, Seattle Anchor Theatre Company, Producer, New York The Lamb's Theatre Company, General Manager, New York Columbia Directors' Forum, General Manager, Columbia University Executive Editor, Drama Ministry, Communication Resources
EDUCATION Act One: Writing for Hollywood M.F.A. in Theatre Management, Columbia University, Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies, School of the Arts B.F.A. in Theatre, Drake University, College of Fine Arts
References / Samples furnished upon request.
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