Sean Martin Hingston

Seán Martin Hingston is a New York-based actor. Seán started his career as a child actor in TV commercials. He was educated at Eltham High School, Victoria, where he began his theatrical career in productions of A Midsummers Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Pippin and The Real Inspector Hound. As a graduate of the Dance Factory, Melbourne, he performed in theatre restaurants around the city and as one of Tony Bartuccio's dancers on Countdown for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He joined the original production of Cats in Australia in 1986, six months into its inaugural Sydney season. A national tour of Man of la Mancha and the original Australian production of 42nd Street followed. After teaming with Ignatius Jones on Pardon Me Boys, Seán soon hit the jazz circuit as front man for the jazz/tap act, The Fabulous Rhythm Boys, touring Australia and the South Pacific. Landing his first NYC audition Seán was cast in Broadway Tonight, a review of Broadway showstoppers bound for Europe. This was followed by Anything Goes for Berlin's Theater des Westens. Returning to NYC he made his Broadway debut at the Shubert Theatre in Crazy For You, the beginning of a long association with Director/Choreographer Susan Stroman. Broadway: "Promises, Promises" (Mr. Eichelberger), Curtains (Bobby Pepper), Contact (Frenchman, Uncle Vinnie, Johnny), Crazy For You. NYC Theater: The Cocoanuts, Encores!, A Connecticut Yankee, Promises, Promises, The Boys from Syracuse, L’Il Abner, Broadway by the Year – 1930, 1978, 1964. Kristin Chenoweth at Carnegie Hall and The Met, Bernadette Peters at Carnegie Hall, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Radio City. U.S. Regional: Yankee Doodle (The Ordway), A Wonderful Life (Papermill Playhouse), Evita (Jupiter Theater), Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem/Variations (Opera Omaha) and world premieres of Cole Porter's The Pirate (Prince Theater), What a Glorious Feeling (Mason Street Warehouse), Yankee Doodle Dandy (5th Avenue Theater), Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home (Trinity Rep), A. R. Gurney’s Let’s Do It! (Long Wharf). Tours: Chita and All That Jazz, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Film: Across The Universe, The Producers, Beyond the Sea, Center Stage. TV: The Bronx Is Burning, Sex and the City, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Live from Lincoln Center: Contact, An Evening with the Boston Pops, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. Seán received a FANY (FAns of NY Theatre) Award nomination for his performance in Contact at Lincoln Center Theater in 2000.