Sean O'Callaghan - A life onstage
Sean O'Callaghan was born in England to Irish parents, and grew up on a council estate in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
O'Callaghan trained as an actor at RADA, and from 1986 spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Here he appeared in The Winter's Tale, directed by Terry Hands, Romeo and Juliet, directed by Michael Bogdanov, Richard II, directed by Barry Kyle and The Storm, directed by Nick Hamm.
Between 1990 and 1993, O'Callaghan worked under director Peter Cheeseman at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Here he appeared in The Dirty Hill, Soldiers Three, All My Sons, Twelfth Night, The Bright and Bold Design and The Plough and The Stars. O'Callaghan has also performed at the New Vic in The beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West, Four Knights in Knaresborough, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Knotty.
Back at the RSC from 1994-96, O'Callaghan appeared in Pentecost and After Easter, both directed by Michael Attenborough, Henry V, directed by Michael Warchus, Zenobia, directed by Mike Ockrent, Words, Words, Words, directed by Cicely Berry and Son of Man directed by Bill Bryden.
O'Callaghan first appeared with Howard Barker's company, The Wrestling School, in 1996, in 1996 in (Uncle) Vanya, and has since appeared in Wounds To The Face, Ursula, The Ecstatic Bible, Gertrude (The Cry), 13 Objects, The Fence, Animeuax En Paradis and I Saw Myself. O'Callaghan is an associate of the company.
O'Callaghan has also performed at Shakespeare's Globe, Adelaide Festival, Liverpool Playhouse, Hampstead Theatre, Bolton Octagon, Oldham Coliseum, Derby Playhouse, National Theatre Studio, Theatre 503 and the Finborough Theatre, and with companies such as Northern Broadsides, The Wedding Collective.
In 2013, O'Callaghan was nominated for an Irish Times Best Actor award for his performance in Rachel O'Riordan's Perth Theatre/Lyric Belfast production of Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, which won Best Ensemble and Best Director awards at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
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