Biography
Sean Gill is a Primetime Emmy-nominated writer, playwright, filmmaker, and editor. He won Michigan Quarterly Review's 2020 Lawrence Prize (judged by Laura Kasischke, for the best annual fiction in MQR), Pleiades' 2019 Gail B. Crump Prize, The Cincinnati Review's 2018 Robert and Adele Schiff Award (judged by Michael Griffith), the 2017 River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest, and the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize (judged by Molly Antopol). Other prose has been published in The Iowa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Threepenny Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and ZYZZYVA.
He has studied with Juan-Luis Buñuel, is a graduate of Werner Herzog's 2010 Rogue Film School, was directed by Martin Scorsese in the pilot episode of HBO's Vinyl, was a bouncer for Public Enemy, Isaac Hayes, and Jefferson Starship, and worked as an artist-in-residence at the Bowery Poetry Club from 2011-2012. He has edited a number of documentary programs for Netflix, Paramount Television, A&E, Discovery, The Weather Channel, MGM, Martha Stewart, and the National Geographic channel, including Criminal Defense, which chronicled the efforts of public defenders from the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York; 12 Hours With, a series of Billboard music documentaries for Hispanic Heritage Month 2021; and Queer Eye, the Emmy and GLAAD Award-winning Netflix series, for which he received 2022 Primetime Emmy and 2022 American Cinema Editors (ACE) "Eddie" Award nominations.
As a video artist, his work has been screened at venues such as the Canadian Film Centre, the Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival, NewFilmmakers, the Coney Island Film Festival, the Lower East Side Film Festival, Spain's Bideodromo Bilbao, the Anthology Film Archives, Williamsburg Cinemas, Theater for the New City, Video Mass, Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, at Purdue University Galleries, and aboard the Staten Island Ferry.
