2017—Present
Geffen Academy at UCLA
Theater Lecturer
Teaching text, action, judgment, and performance through rehearsal and direction.
Sean ConlinPhilosopher
Work needs more than efficiency.
Essays, lectures, and teaching on judgment, education, creativity, and the human ends new tools cannot decide.
Tested in classrooms, seminars, rehearsal rooms, and public conversation.
2021—2024
Loyola Marymount University
M.A. in Philosophy
Graduate work focused on work, meaning, creativity, and responsible action.
2003—2005
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in English and Philosophy
Undergraduate formation in English, Philosophy, argument, and interpretation.
Earlier
CalArts, BroadStage, Santa Monica College
Teaching, direction, and production
Earlier classroom, rehearsal, production, and technical leadership.
Work, education, and creativity under technological pressure.
The central concern stays fixed: when tools become easier, which human capacities become more important?
Work after automation
When efficiency rises, responsibility, authorship, and vocation come under new pressure.
Education as formation
Schools still have to teach judgment, not only fluency, speed, or performance.
Creativity with standards
When technical fluency becomes abundant, technique, taste, and revision matter more, not less.
Useful where institutions cannot confuse speed with judgment.
Schools, arts organizations, leadership groups, and public audiences keep meeting the same problem: new capacity arrives before the standards for using it are clear.
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Where efficiency stops answering the question
Useful when speed, output, and adoption can all be measured, but ends and standards still have to be named.
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Grounded in philosophy and live practice
The work moves between seminar, classroom, rehearsal, and public conversation without flattening the subject.
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Legible in different rooms
The same questions can be carried into faculty settings, leadership groups, student audiences, and public events with clarity.
