Sean Gill

Sean Gill
Born
Akron, Ohio, United States
EducationOberlin College
OccupationsAuthor, editor
Writing career
Years active2000s-present
GenresShort stories, Novels, Non-fiction, Documentary, Reality television
Websiteseangillfilms.com

Sean Gill is an American writer and film editor.

Education

Gill is a graduate of Oberlin College and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. He studied privately with Juan Luis Buñuel.

Television

Gill's television work includes editing episodes of Queer Eye, 12 Hours With, Martha Knows Best, Martha Gets Down and Dirty, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Ink Master, Ink Master: Angels, Tattoo Redo, America's Top Dog, White House Christmas 2022, as well as documentary specials for National Geographic and The Weather Channel. For his work on Queer Eye, he was nominated for 2022 and 2023 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program and the 2022 American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award for Best Edited Non-Scripted Series.

Theater

Gill has written several plays produced in New York City, including Go-Go Killers! (2009), Stage Blood Is Never Enough (2009), and Dreams of the Clockmaker (2010). He co-wrote the story to two full-length dance dramas by Rachel Klein, The Tragedy of Maria Macabre (2011) and Symphony of Shadows (2012). Tom Murrin of PAPER described him as "an imaginative, experienced playwright/filmmaker... with apocalyptic vision."

Literary career

Gill's short stories and essays have been published in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Threepenny Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, The Common, Joyland, The Saturday Evening Post, Sonora Review, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, Hemingway Shorts: The Literary Journal of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, Akashic Books, Fiction Southeast, failbetter, Monkeybicycle, Eclectica Magazine, Word Riot, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor to McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Epiphany Magazine, and ZYZZYVA.

Literary awards

Year Title Award Judge Result Ref.
2015 "You Have Now Eaten Thirty-Four Spiders" storySouth Million Writers Award Nominated
2016 "Beyond the Terminus, Beyond" Sonora Review Fiction Prize Molly Antopol Won
2016 "The Lakes and the Falls" Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest Linda Swanson-Davies & Susan Burmeister-Brown Finalist
2017 "Edifice and Artifice in Buda and Pest" River Styx Microfiction Contest Won
2018 "For Want of a Better Word" Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Fiction, The Cincinnati Review Michael Griffith Won
2019 "The Statement of [REDACTED], Revised" Gail B. Crump Prize for Experimental Fiction, Pleiades Jennifer Maritza McCauley Won
2019 "Dignity and Urgency in Edinburgh and London" Lawrence Foundation Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review Laura Kasischke Won
2021 "The Tainting of the Nook" The Academy for Teachers' "Stories Out of School" Contest, A Public Space Jonathan Lethem Finalist
2021 "The Keepers of the Skull" Witness Literary Awards Bonnie Chau Finalist
2023 "Join Hands" Edinburgh Prize in Flash Fiction, Scottish Arts Trust Zoë Strachan & Louise Welsh 3rd place

References

  1. ↑ Sauther, Janola (July 16, 2019). "An Interview with Sean Gill". Pleiades Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  2. ↑ Hagan, Jeff (January 1, 2023). "Class Notes". Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  3. ↑ Meckes, Justin (April 27, 2017). "Interview with Sean Gill". Scrutiny Journal. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Emmy Bio: Sean Gill". Television Academy. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  5. ↑ Meyer, Lily (March 10, 2022). "Writers' Day Jobs: Sean Gill". The Cincinnati Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  6. ↑ "74th Emmys Program" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 26, 2022. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
  7. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (July 12, 2022). "2022 Emmy Nominations". Deadline. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  8. ↑ Giardina, Carolyn (September 3, 2022). "Creative Arts Emmys: 'The Beatles: Get Back,' 'Adele: One Night Only' Win Big on Night One". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  9. ↑ Moreau, Jordan (July 12, 2023). "Emmys 2023: The Complete Nominations List". Variety. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  10. ↑ Giardina, Carolyn (March 5, 2022). "'King Richard,' 'Tick, Tick … Boom!' Top American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  11. ↑ Giardina, Carolyn (January 27, 2022). "'Belfast,' 'King Richard,' No Time To Die' Among American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  12. ↑ Sierra, Gabrielle (March 27, 2009). "Campy Retro-futuristic Play GO-GO KILLERS Opens At Sage 5/8". Broadway World. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  13. ↑ Hodges, Ben (2011). Theater World 2009-2010. Milwaukee: Applause Theater and Cinema Books. p. 319. ISBN 978-1-4234-9271-9.
  14. ↑ Connolly, Grace (October 1, 2016). "Dreams of the Clockmaker". Cleaver Magazine. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  15. ↑ Harrison, Byrne (October 28, 2011). "Sean Gill on His Latest Production, Dreams of the Clockmaker". StageBuzz. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  16. ↑ Sierra, Gabrielle (October 25, 2011). "Photo Flash: The Opening Night of The Tragedy of Maria Macabre". Broadway World. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  17. ↑ Sundermann, Eric (June 13, 2012). "Symphony of Shadows: Sleep No More?". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  18. ↑ Murrin, Tom (May 14, 2009). "Stage Notes: Go-Go Killers". PAPER Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Volume 47, Issue 3 — Winter 2017/18". The Iowa Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  20. ↑ "MQR Issue 58:4, Fall 2019, What Does Europe Want Now?". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Issue 15.1". The Cincinnati Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  22. ↑ "Issue 163, Fall 2020". The Threepenny Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  23. ↑ "A Fine Green Thread". The Los Angeles Review of Books. 15 March 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Vol. 21, No. 3". Five Points. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Review of D. Foy's Absolutely Golden". The Brooklyn Rail. 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-07-30. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  26. ↑ "The Weak Knees". BOMB. 26 August 2022. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Dispatches: The Globe". The Common. 23 May 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  28. ↑ "The Mongrels". Joyland. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  29. ↑ "Little Green Men". The Saturday Evening Post. 25 May 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  30. ↑ "Issue 70". Sonora Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  31. ↑ "Issue No. 5: Indiana". So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  32. ↑ "2020 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal, Vol. 5". Hemingway Shorts: The Literary Journal of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  33. ↑ "Mondays Are Murder: Cranberry's Last Dance". Akashic Books. 14 September 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  34. ↑ "In the Cutting Room". Fiction Southeast. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  35. ↑ "Have a Lappie with Linda". failbetter. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  36. ↑ "One-Sentence Stories". Monkeybicycle. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  37. ↑ "Vol. 18, No. 2". Eclectica Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  38. ↑ "Hello in There". Word Riot. Archived from the original on 2016-04-19. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  39. ↑ "Authors: Sean Gill". McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  40. ↑ "Sean Gill's Lurid Esoterica". Epiphany. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  41. ↑ "Sean Gill's Six Authors in Search of a Character". ZYZZYVA. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  42. ↑ "2015 Short Story Nominees". The Sanguine Woods. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  43. ↑ "Sonora Review 2016 Contest Winners". Sonora Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  44. ↑ "Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction". Glimmer Train. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  45. ↑ "River Styx Microfiction Contest". River Styx. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  46. ↑ "The Cincinnati Review 2018 Contest Winners". The Cincinnati Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  47. ↑ "Pleiades Prize Announcement". Pleiades Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  48. ↑ "Lawrence Foundation Prize 2018". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  49. ↑ "Announcing our Stories Out of School Finalists". Facebook, The Academy for Teachers. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  50. ↑ "Hello to 2021 with our Lit Award Finalists coming in hot!". Twitter, Witness Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  51. ↑ "2023 Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction". Scottish Arts Trust. Retrieved March 20, 2023.