Henry Sheeran is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern. Currently, he is querying his debut novel, a fantasy epic called Deserters, and editing his upcoming short film Heart is a Motor.

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 Award at the European Short Film Festival, among other accolades. Henry and Abby also co-wrote The Birthday Peasant, a webseries about a 13th-century peasant who is accidentally summoned to present-day Chicago. The show premiered at the Bilbao Series Festival in Spain, moved on to play at the Catalyst Content Festival in Duluth, Minnesota, and is now available to watch on Youtube.

Henry spent much of the past ten years working in theater. His most recent play, Ted Bundy’s Volkswagen, enjoyed a sold-out workshop production at IRT Theater in 2023. He is also a poet, published in such journals as Colectivo Tabú and Zig Zag Lit Mag. His poem “National Bird” was nominated for a Pushcart prize.