SEAN MANA
*SAG-AFTRA | AEA
25+ Years of Off-Broadway, film, television and V.O. including:
Appearances in national commercials, network television (FOX, NBC, PBS), and independent feature films
A lifelong love of comedy, founding Hofstra’s legacy improv/sketch comedy team: 'Critical Fail,' who performed consistently every week for 3 years. Graduate of Upright Citizen Brigade and recipient of the PIT / SNL Diversity Scholarship. Sean current is an actor, writer and director for the internationally beloved comedy team ‘I MOSTLY BLAME MYSELF,’ who boast over 1 MILLION YouTube subscribers after their run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Training from some of the most respected drama mentors and programs in New York City including Anthony Abeson, Meisner technique with Patrick Page, Suzuki technique with Blessed Unrest, Lee Strasberg's Theatre and Film Institute, Upright Citizens Brigade and the PIT.
Musical theatre-training as a Baritone writing hip-hop, punk, funk, musical theatre and metal material from his bedroom. Learn more on the Music page.
Years of dance experience with musical theatre choreography as well as ballroom styles like salsa, swing and jive.
An enthusiasm for martial arts, training in Boxing, Hung Ga Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Muay Thai, Fencing, and Kendo. Stage combat training with Broadway choreographer Robert Wesley.
Take a peak at Sean's Full Resume via Actors Access
Sean as Tiresias in the classical epic ‘Oedipus Rex’
“Sean has megawattage charisma to rival the role he’s playing. He’s the most natural charmer of the disarming bunch."
-(Variety)
Post-Grad, Sean was hired by Hofstra University to play Zamir in ‘Why Torture is Wrong…’
“One’s grateful for the presence of Sean who’s the show’s standout comic. He lands nearly every joke he’s given with a dead pan delivery that borders on laser-like”
— American Theatre
In 2017, his performance in Listen! The River earned Sean a Best Actor nomination from the Planet Connections Festivity Theatre Awards
In ‘Robocop 5’, Sean plays an enraged, disagreeable producer.