Sean Driscoll
Sean Driscoll began performing professionally at the age of fifteen. In 1976, at the age of sixteen, he was awarded the Young Artist award in Atlanta, GA and began a long career entertaining children in schools with educational programs. Now forty years later, Sean currrently tours regularly throughout the United States, performing in theaters, schools, libraries, radio, television, concert, and festival settings. Sean completed his BFA in music from Florida State University and taught classical guitar for ten years at Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah, GA. He has been selected for hundreds of Artist in Residency programs in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina from 1990 to the present. Sean reaches thousands of children and adults each year through hundreds of residencies, workshops, and performances. He specializes in technology workshops where students create storybook mobile apps, green screen animated videos, and storytelling audio CDs.
Arts Disciplines: Storytelling, Media Arts, Poetry/Spoken Word, Theatre/Drama, Creative Writing, Puppetry
Core Content Curriculum Areas: Social Studies/History, English/Language Arts, Math, Theatre/Drama, Technology, Science, Music
Specialized Content Areas: Arts Integration, STEAM, Literacy, Anti-bullying, Character Education
Grade Levels: Pre-K, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Special Populations: At-risk Students, Special Needs Students
Pre-Service Learning and Professional Development: Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Geographic Availability: Metro Atlanta, North Georgia, Middle Georgia, South Georgia
Program Fees:
- School Performances:
- One show at one location – $695
- Two shows at the same location – $895
- Three shows at the same location – $1,295
- Discounts are offered for block booking, so call to find out when we are in your area to get lower rates.)
- Theater Performances:
- Between 300 and 500 seats
- One show – $1,395
- Two shows – $1,795
- Three shows – $2,500
- Theaters and larger venues require bigger screens and props so the costs per show increases.
- Call for block booking discounts.
- Workshops:
- Depends upon which workshop and how many attend. Call for teacher training pricing.
- Residencies:
- 3-Day – $1,900, plus hotel if necessary. (Hotel fees in Metro Atlanta and Savannah areas are included in the $1,900 fee.)
- 5-Day – $2,500, plus hotel if necessary. (Hotel fees in Metro Atlanta and Savannah areas are included in the $2,500 fee.)
Artistic Profile:
Sean Driscoll began performing professionally at the age of fifteen. In 1976, at the age of sixteen, he was awarded the Young Artist award in Atlanta, GA and began a long career entertaining children in schools with educational programs. Now forty years later, Sean currrently tours regularly throughout the United States performing in theaters, schools, libraries, radio, television, concert, and festival settings. Sean completed his BFA in music from Florida State University and taught classical guitar for ten years at Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah, GA. He has been selected for hundreds of Artist in Residency programs in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina from 1990 to the present. Sean reaches thousands of children and adults each year through hundreds of residencies, workshops, and performances.
Teaching Experience:
Sean has been conducting workshops and residencies for over twenty years in schools across America. He specializes in technology workshops where students create storybook mobile apps, greens screen animated videos, and storytelling audio CDs. He was also a professor of music for 9 years at Armstrong Atlantic University. He conducts teacher training programs where he teaches educators technology-based creative projects for the classroom in the southeastern U.S. each year.
Sample Programs:
- “Storybook App Creation”
- This residency is a fun filled 3 or 5 day program where students create a story book app for computers or movie devices with their own illustrations, animations, voice readings, sound effects, and illustrations.
- Students are taken through the process of story creation. After the story has been written, they work with their art teacher and Sean to create a storyboard and illustrations to accompany the story. Sean then brings a complete digital recording studio and records the students telling the story and sound effects.
- Once all the content has been created, Mr. Driscoll will compile the story into a digital app for distribution. There are several formats available including apps for iPhone, iPad, Andriod devices and Kindle and Ibook Readers. Each class will create one story book. This a wonderful time for kids to learn to work in teams and collaborate. The residency has curriculum connections with technology, literature, reading and art.
- Recommended grade levels: 3-5
- Technical requirements: One table 6’X2’, one chair, reasonably quiet room
- Duration: Three or five-day residency. Four to five classes daily, with one classroom period for each participating class each day.
- Recommended class participant size – 25 students
- Residency Fees:
- 3-Day – $1,900, plus hotel if necessary. (Hotel fees in Metro Atlanta and Savannah areas are included in the $1900 fee.)
- 5-Day – $2,500 plus hotel if necessary. (Hotel fees in Metro Atlanta and Savannah areas are included in the $2,500 fee.)
- “Diggery Digger’s Dino Adventure”
- While Paleontologist Diggery Diggers is showing his dinosaur fossils to a live audience, he discovers a “top secret” box the museum accidentally packed. Curious, Diggery opens the box and unleashes the DinoSauroScope 3000 or DINA taking the audience back into time to interact with dinosaurs. All is well until they use DINA on a large dinosaur egg. The egg hatches and a terrible thing happens. The dinosaurs in museums around the world start to come alive! The only way to stop this dinosaur regeneration is to return the baby dinosaur back to it’s mother. Come along for a rocking dino adventure with Diggery and save the human race.
- The show has incredible props including large interactive animated characters, dinosaur bones, a giant dinosaur egg and beautiful puppets. Combined with intriguing magic and rocking music, this is the Story Ship’s most memorable adventure. Audience members constantly interact with the animated dinosaurs, scan with the DINA, help solve puzzles and dance.
- Duration: 50-55 minute show (can be shortened)
- Recommended grade levels: Pre-k – 3rd grade (Please check out the companion STEAM show for older students in grades 4-6 listed on our website.)
- Set-up time: 1 hour to 1 and 1/2 hours for schools
- Audience Size: Up to 1,500 students, depending on venue size. It is recommended that schools have no more than 350 students attend at a time.
- Program fees for school performances:
- One show at one location – $695
- Two shows at the same location – $895
- Three shows at the same location – $1,295
- Discounts are offered for block booking, so call to find out when we are in your area to get lower rates.
- Program fees for theater performances:
- Between 300 and 500 seats (Theaters and larger venues require bigger screens and props so the costs per show increases.)
- One Show – $1,395
- Two Shows – $1,795
- Three Shows – $2,500
- Call for block booking discounts
- “Super Me”
- A fast-paced theatrical adventure that combines high-energy hip-hop dance, intense video gaming, astounding magic, interactive animation and a live actor. Audience members are taken on a virtual journey into a comic book world to help a young boy escape from bullies. Amazing animated and real life videos are projected onto a large screen during the performance allowing audience members to interact with the characters. The audience must help the boy overcome obstacles and solve puzzles using super powers onstage (Super Human Strength, X-Ray vision, Telekinesis, and Aquakinesis.)
- During the show, kids are taught a hip-hop dance based on the “Super Me” theme music. At the end of the show, the kids must perform the dance to move to next level of the Super Me training program. The Super Me song summarizes all the Anti-Bullying methods given during the show. Kids not only see real life examples of bullying, but are given clear step by step actions to help stop bullying.
- Recommended grade levels: Pre-K-5th grade
- Duration: 45 -50 minutes
- Set-up time: 1 hour
- Tech requirements:
- Theaters – Call (912) 663-6320 for Tech Riders and Stage Plots
- Schools – One electrical outlet; we bring the rest
- Program fees for school performances:
- One show at one location – $695
- Two shows at the same location – $895
- Three shows at the same location – $1,295
- Discounts are offered for block booking, so call to find out when we are in your area to get lower rates.
- Program fees for theater performances:
- Between 300 and 500 seats (Theaters and larger venues require bigger screens and props so the costs per show increases.)
- One Show – $1,395
- Two Shows – $1,795
- Three Shows – $2,500
- Call for block booking discounts
Sample Lesson Plans/Study Guides:
- Listing ID: 6043