Seamus Fera is a Vancouver-based theatre artist (Director, Playwright, Actor) and Literary Manager for Western Gold Theatre. Seamus is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s BFA program and focuses on creating new and meaningful works that are engaging and reflective of modern society. Since 2011, Seamus has been a youth theatre instructor for various organizations throughout the Lower Mainland.

Selected acting credits include Cassandra (Agamemnon– Stone’s Throw Productions), The Figure (The Ocean– Pull Festival 8), Robert/De Stogumber (Saint Joan– Promethean Theatre), Jay (Generation Hot: Waterborne– The Only Animal) and roles in Lone Star, Love and Information Edward II and The Safe Word (Theatre@UBC).

Directing credits include A Doll’s House Part 2 (Western Gold Theatre), Bare (Eternal Theatre Collective), Seesaw, Goldilocks and the Three bears, Chaos, Kindness (Arts Umbrella Theatre Troupe) Anon(ymous), The Secret in the Wings (Killarney Theatre), Once Upon A Pine, King Arthur’s Calamity, Unity (1918), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Jungle Book, The Chrysalids and Our Town (Coquitlam Youth Theatre) and MilkMilkLemonade (Awkward Stage Productions).

Assistant/Co-Directing credits include Peter Pan (Arts Umbrella), Dear Edwina Jr. (Coquitlam Youth Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre Temp), Charles III (Arts Club Theatre), Taken at Midnight and The Imaginary Invalid (The United Players of Vancouver).

When not acting, directing or teaching, Seamus can be found writing. His play Gale: The Yellow Bricks of Oz was produced by Coquitlam Youth Theatre and previously at the Vancouver Technical Secondary School. He has also written Alice: A Wonderland and Genesis: Genesis. Other recent produced scripts include Curiouser and The Greek Cycle: Persy’s Phone. He is currently developing an original play, The Wives, which received public readings at UBC and Sup: A Reading Series and a Theatre for Young Audiences play about the unhoused crisis. Seamus has abridged several classical plays for production by Arts Umbrella’s Pre-Professional Training Program and Carousel Theatre for Young People’s Teen Shakespeare Program.