Sean Gullette
Encyclopedia
Sean Gullette is a writer, actor, and filmmaker.
Gullette lives in Tangier
, Morocco
, and in addition to his film work is the founder of the 212 Society, a US non-profit which supports cultural and educational projects in Morocco, including The Cinematheque de Tanger and Darna. The 212 Society and takes its name from the 212 telephone codes of its home city and adoptive country.
He is represented by Craig Cohen, of Chemistry; his agent for acting in Europe is Juanita Fallag of Artistes de Cinema et Theatre, Paris.
Gullette and photographer Yto Barrada
have a baby daughter, Vega Violet.
, directed by longtime collaborator Darren Aronofsky
. He has since played principal and supporting roles in some twenty films including Brad Anderson
's Happy Accidents
(with Vincent D'Onofrio
and Marisa Tomei
) and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (with Jennifer Connelly
), the German film Toskana Karrussel (with Susanna Lothar) and as a guest actor on network TV dramas. His occasional theater work has included the lead in the New York premiere of Susan Sandler
's If I Were a Train.
In 2010 he played principal roles in Blue Ridge
, directed by Vincent Sweeney, and Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore
, with Nikolai Kinski
and Morjana Alaoui
, directed by Michael Dreher.
Gullette is rumored to be in talks to play the lead role in Tula Station, directed by Sergio Maroquin, from the award-winning novel by David Toscana, and the lead role in Lilith
, a thriller from French director Fabien Martorell.
Gullette's spoken word piece is featured on the track "Song of Alice" from Israeli-French singer Keren Ann
's fourth album, Nolita (2004) on Blue Note/Capitol/EMI Records.
He recorded vocal pieces for Northern Irish DJ and musician David Holmes's album Bow Down to the Exit Sign
.
and Seymour Cassel
. He wrote "New York Stories" for Donna Karan
's DKNY, and directed the "Von Hummer the 1st" series of promotional spots for VH1
, starring James Urbaniak. He produced Nicole Zaray's gender-inverted short film Joe's Day, featuring Deborah Harry
. He has also consulted on screenplays for Warner Bros.
, Paramount
, and independent productions. In 2009 Gullette adapted Nobel-Prize winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe
's novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
, for a French-Japanese co-production to be directed by Olivier Megaton
. He produced The 8 with Sarah Riggs and Blaire Dessent; the film was selected for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
Gullette wrote and directed Traitors (30 mins) "a night in the lives of an all-girl punk band as they illicitly shoot their first music video on the streets of Tangier." The film premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival
and the Sharjah Biennial
.
Sean Gullette was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as the writer-director of Tangier, a film in-development set to star Emile Hirsch
, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jeremy Irons
, and Tony Shalhoub
. Tangier will be produced by Darren Aronofsky
's Protozoa Pictures.
, Slate
, Bidoun
, Brill's Content, Gear, Entertainment Weekly
, and KGB magazine (which he founded as editor and publisher in 1991.) His essay "Mile High" appears in the NYU Press' book 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, and his essay "Notes" appears in the Springer-Verlag anthology Art, Technology, and Cinema.
Biography
He was born in Boston and attended public schools and Harvard, where he acted in theater and films and directed plays.Gullette lives in Tangier
Tangier
Tangier, also Tangiers is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 . It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel...
, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, and in addition to his film work is the founder of the 212 Society, a US non-profit which supports cultural and educational projects in Morocco, including The Cinematheque de Tanger and Darna. The 212 Society and takes its name from the 212 telephone codes of its home city and adoptive country.
He is represented by Craig Cohen, of Chemistry; his agent for acting in Europe is Juanita Fallag of Artistes de Cinema et Theatre, Paris.
Gullette and photographer Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco.-Life and work:Yto Barrada is the daughter of French journalist Hamid Barrada...
have a baby daughter, Vega Violet.
Acting
His professional work in film began in 1998, when he co-wrote and played the lead role in the award-winning PiPi (film)
Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...
, directed by longtime collaborator Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...
. He has since played principal and supporting roles in some twenty films including Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson (film director)
Brad Anderson is a film director. A director of thriller and horror films and television projects, he is best known for having directed The Machinist , starring Christian Bale, as well as producing and directing several installments of the FOX science-fiction series Fringe.-Early life:Anderson was...
's Happy Accidents
Happy Accidents
Happy Accidents is a 2000 American film starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. The movie revolves around Ruby Weaver, a New York woman with a string of failed relationships, and Sam Deed, a man who claims to be from the year 2470...
(with Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer. Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname of "Human Chameleon"...
and Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei is an American stage, film and television actress. Following her work on As The World Turns, Tomei came to prominence as a supporting cast member on The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World in 1987...
) and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (with Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lynn Connelly is an American film actress, who began her career as a child model. She appeared in magazine, newspaper and television advertising, before making her motion picture debut in the 1984 crime film Once Upon a Time in America...
), the German film Toskana Karrussel (with Susanna Lothar) and as a guest actor on network TV dramas. His occasional theater work has included the lead in the New York premiere of Susan Sandler
Susan Sandler
Susan Sandler is an American writer and currently a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has numerous writing credits but is probably best known for her play Crossing Delancey, which she also adapted into a movie with the same name starring Amy Irving and directed by...
's If I Were a Train.
In 2010 he played principal roles in Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge
-Places:In the United States:*Blue Ridge Mountains, a major range of the Appalachian Mountains**Blue Ridge Mountain*Blue Ridge, Alabama*Blue Ridge, Georgia*Blue Ridge, Indiana*Blue Ridge, Texas*Blue Ridge, Virginia*Blue Ridge Summit, PennsylvaniaIn Canada:...
, directed by Vincent Sweeney, and Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore
Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore
Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore is a 2009 German film by Michael Dreher; written by him and produced by Karim Debbagh, Rüdiger Heinze, Rainer Kölmel and Stefan Sporbert. It stars Nikolai Kinski, Katharina Schüttler, Morjana Alaoui and Sean Gullette...
, with Nikolai Kinski
Nikolai Kinski
Nanhoï Nikolai Kinski is a film actor, and the only acknowledged son of the prolific actor Klaus Kinski and his third wife, Minhoi Geneviève Loanic. He is the half-brother of actresses Nastassja Kinski and Pola Kinski. Nikolai was born in France, but was raised in California, United States...
and Morjana Alaoui
Morjana Alaoui
Morjana Alaoui she is a Moroccan actress. She is famous for her roles in Marock & Martyrs. She emigrated to the United States. She is Layla Marrakchi's cousin.-External links:...
, directed by Michael Dreher.
Gullette is rumored to be in talks to play the lead role in Tula Station, directed by Sergio Maroquin, from the award-winning novel by David Toscana, and the lead role in Lilith
Lilith
Lilith is a character in Jewish mythology, found earliest in the Babylonian Talmud, who is generally thought to be related to a class of female demons Līlīṯu in Mesopotamian texts. However, Lowell K. Handy notes, "Very little information has been found relating to the Akkadian and Babylonian view...
, a thriller from French director Fabien Martorell.
Gullette's spoken word piece is featured on the track "Song of Alice" from Israeli-French singer Keren Ann
Keren Ann
Keren Ann Zeidel is a singer-songwriter-composer-producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv and New York City. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements.-Life and career:...
's fourth album, Nolita (2004) on Blue Note/Capitol/EMI Records.
He recorded vocal pieces for Northern Irish DJ and musician David Holmes's album Bow Down to the Exit Sign
Bow Down to the Exit Sign
Bow Down to the Exit Sign is an album by David Holmes, featuring contributions from Bobby Gillespie, Sean Gullette, Jon Spencer, Martina Topley-Bird and Carl Hancock Rux.- Track listing :# "Live From The Peppermint Store"# "Compared To What"...
.
Screenwriting and filmmaking
His feature film screenwriting projects have included Trinity,Conviction, Monopolis and Kilroy. He wrote and is a producer of Thanksgiving, starring Yolonda Ross, James UrbaniakJames Urbaniak
James Christian Urbaniak is an American actor. Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Julie and their twins, son Severn Jerzy and daughter Esme Maeve....
and Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Joseph Cassel is an American actor.He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/directorJohn Cassavetes...
. He wrote "New York Stories" for Donna Karan
Donna Karan
Donna Karan is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.-Early life:...
's DKNY, and directed the "Von Hummer the 1st" series of promotional spots for VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
, starring James Urbaniak. He produced Nicole Zaray's gender-inverted short film Joe's Day, featuring Deborah Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
. He has also consulted on screenplays for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
, Paramount
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
, and independent productions. In 2009 Gullette adapted Nobel-Prize winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe
is a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.Ōe was awarded...
's novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids is a novel by Japanese author and Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe. It is Ōe's first novel, written when he was 23 years old.-Plot:...
, for a French-Japanese co-production to be directed by Olivier Megaton
Olivier Megaton
Olivier Megaton is a French film director, writer, and editor best known for directing The Red Siren, Transporter 3 and Colombiana.-Early life:...
. He produced The 8 with Sarah Riggs and Blaire Dessent; the film was selected for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
Gullette wrote and directed Traitors (30 mins) "a night in the lives of an all-girl punk band as they illicitly shoot their first music video on the streets of Tangier." The film premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival has been a major film festival since it began in 1963 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center...
and the Sharjah Biennial
Sharjah Biennial
The Sharjah Biennial is a celebrated cultural event in the Arab world. It is organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation.-Early days:Since its inception in 1993, the event has formed a cultural bridge between artists, art institutions and organisations locally, regionally and internationally...
.
Sean Gullette was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival as the writer-director of Tangier, a film in-development set to star Emile Hirsch
Emile Hirsch
Emile Davenport Hirsch is an American television and film actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, and Into the Wild. In...
, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the...
, and Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub
Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is an American actor of Lebanese descent. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk. He has won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for his work in Monk...
. Tangier will be produced by Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...
's Protozoa Pictures.
Other writing
Gullette's essays, journalism and fiction have been published in magazines including The Face, SpySpy (magazine)
Spy was a satirical monthly magazine founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen and E. Graydon Carter, who served as its first editors, and Thomas L. Phillips, Jr., its first publisher. After one folding and a rebirth, it ceased publication in 1998...
, Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
, Bidoun
Bidoun
Bidoun is a quarterly print magazine published in New York and subtitled "art and culture from the Middle East." The magazine was founded in 2004 by Editor-in-Chief Lisa Farjam...
, Brill's Content, Gear, Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
, and KGB magazine (which he founded as editor and publisher in 1991.) His essay "Mile High" appears in the NYU Press' book 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, and his essay "Notes" appears in the Springer-Verlag anthology Art, Technology, and Cinema.