Sean Patrick O’Reilly

Owner and Ceo of Arcana Studio | Canada

Sean Patrick O’Reilly is an energetic and passionate visionary who has demonstrated his leadership, creativity, humanity and resourcefulness as a transmedia writer and producer. Sean realized his dream of writing through Kade, his first comic book series, in 2004. Since then, Sean has written for Simon & Shuster, Harper Collins, Random House, Stone Arch Books, Scholastic, Mattel’s American Girl, and the 1000 page KISS Kompendium for Gene Simmons. He has won numerous awards including the Moonbeam Award for Top Children’s Graphic Novel, the Mom’s Choice Award for multiple books, and Foreword Magazine’s Top Graphic Novel of 2008 as presented at Book Expo America.

Sean preserves his passion for storytelling by continuing to produce, write and direct. His first productions had him write and produce two movies for Lionsgate, as well as write and produce the animated film The Clockwork Girl and The Mighty Mighty Monsters series. He then directed and produced a thirteen-episode season for the animated TV series Kagagi. Sean found that he is most passionate about projects that he can write, direct and produce. He has done so with the animated feature films Pixies, the Howard Lovecraft trilogy, Panda vs Aliens, The Steam Engines of Oz, Go Fish!, and Heroes of the Golden Masks. In 2021 Sean wrote, directed, and produced his first live-action feature Corrective Measures starring Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker. He is currently writing, directing and producing two animated series Go Fish+ and My Brother the Monster, and the animated feature film Ultraduck.