Sean Harris Oliver

Sean Harris Oliver is a Canadian actor and playwright. He is most noted for his play The Fighting Season, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.^[1]

The Fighting Season is a war drama which was based in part on Oliver's father, an orthopedic surgeon who served as an army doctor during the War in Afghanistan.^[2] Following a run at the 2015 Vancouver Fringe Festival,^[3] the play had its commercial premiere in Vancouver in January 2017,^[2] and was published in book form by Scirocco Drama in 2019.

Oliver's other plays have included Bright Blue Future^[4] and Redpatch, a collaboration with Raes Calvert.^[5]

In 2024, Oliver co-wrote the screenplay for the independent horror film Hunting Matthew Nichols with his friend Markian Tarasiuk, both of whom graduated from Studio 58.^[6]