Henry Sheeran is a writer, film-, and theater-maker living in New York City. In 2022, he graduated with an MFA from Northwestern’s Writing for the Screen and Stage program. Though Henry works across media and genre categories, all of his work is, in turns, funny, tragic, and political.

Currently, Henry is writing his debut novel, a fantasy epic called Deserters, editing his upcoming short film The Heart is a Motor, and assisting collaborators Abby Brooke and Sophie de Bruijn in submitting their short film, The Cryptid Tapes, to film festivals across the country.

Henry’s most recent play, Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen, enjoyed a sold-out workshop production at IRT Theater in 2023. He hopes that it will move on to a bigger production in the future.

Henry is the co-founder and co-director of Laundry Day Productions along with Abby Brooke. They founded the company with the production of Henry’s short film debut, Dust Buddy, which won Best Short Film and Audience Award at the European Short Film Festival. It was also an official selection at the NY Indie Shorts Awards and the Chicago Filmmaker Awards.

Since then, he and Abby co-wrote and co-produced The Birthday Peasant, a webseries about a 13th-century peasant who gets accidentally summoned into present-day Chicago. The show premiered at the Bilbao Series Festival in Spain and then moved on to play at the Catalyst Content Festival in Duluth, Minnesota.

In the fall of 2018, Henry and co-producer Myka Cue produced Henry’s play, Gain!, which follows a motley group of college weightlifters as they struggle for dominance of each other and themselves. Written and directed by Henry, Gain!, sold out a four-week run at Sportslab Gym in Manhattan.