Sean O'Neill

Sean is a producer, writer and director, and the founder of Visitor Media. He leads the company’s creative and business strategies. Since the company’s launch in 2020, Visitor has produced LIDO TV (2022), a CBC Gem digital variety show created and hosted by the Grammy-nominated artist and musician Lido Pimienta, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; and the feature documentary Crystal Pite: Angels’ Atlas (2022), which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and won the festival’s Showcase Audience Award. In 2023, Visitor will premiere Swan Song (CBC/Dogwoof), a verité-driven feature documentary and four-part limited series that follows ballet icon Karen Kain and a group of dancers at The National Ballet of Canada as the company mounts a new production of Swan Lake, which Sean produced, co-created and co-wrote with director Chelsea McMullan. From 2017 to 2020, Sean co-created, executive produced and hosted the award-winning CBC Arts documentary series In the Making, which brought viewers inside the lives and work of leading artists at pivotal moments of creation.

January 21, 1985