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SEAN PATRICK FLAHAVEN is a writer, composer, orchestrator, conductor, and producer.
He is currently Vice President of Theatre and Standards Repertoire for Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the global
music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp. He manages the song catalogs of Sondheim, Kander & Ebb,
Ahrens & Flaherty, Finn, LaChiusa, Maltby & Shire, and Jones & Schmidt, as well as classics from the Gershwins,
Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, Styne, Weill, Porter, Coward, Comden & Green, Arlen, Mercer, Burke, Lane,
Harburg, and many more.
Previously he was General Manager and Director of Music and Marketing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide, a premier
licensing agency. He has produced over 100 shows, concerts, workshops, and readings for major Broadway and off-
Broadway companies, including the Shubert Organization, Jujamcyn Theaters, Public Theater/NYSF, Manhattan
Theatre Club, O'Neill Theater Center, York Theatre, and Melting Pot Theatre. His own work has been performed in
New York, at regional theatres around the country, and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He has been on the
faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program since 2002.
Sean has had the privilege of working with Stephen Sondheim on many projects, including Saturday Night, Do I Hear
A Waltz?, Follies, Passion, and Bounce. He has worked on dozens of new musicals with authors such as John
Weidman, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, and Mike Reid & Sarah Schlesinger, among others. He was a music
editor for Music Theatre International and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Sean has also been an arts
journalist and editor for 13 years, with over 200 articles published in The Sondheim Review, Show Music, Playbill, and
(the former) Theatre.com/BroadwayOnline.com. He has written liner notes for many albums on Nonesuch Records
and PS Classics, and has produced cast albums and demo recordings.
A native of Minnesota, Sean received degrees in Music and English with multiple honors from Boston College, where
he was a Presidential Scholar; an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts, where he was an Oscar Hammerstein II Fellow; and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn
College, where he received several fellowships. Sean lives in Westchester with his wife, Allison Mitchell Flahaven, and
their son, Will.
CONTACT SEAN
RECENT LINKS:
NY POST - Sunday, June 15, 2008
BOLSTERING BROADWAY- WARNER FOCUSING EFFORTS ON THEATER SCENE
BILLBOARD - June 7, 2008
The Publisher's Place - A Day At The Met
BILLBOARD - May 29, 2008
Warner/Chappell Appoints Theatrical Music VP
He is currently Vice President of Theatre and Standards Repertoire for Warner/Chappell Music (WCM), the global
music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp. He manages the song catalogs of Sondheim, Kander & Ebb,
Ahrens & Flaherty, Finn, LaChiusa, Maltby & Shire, and Jones & Schmidt, as well as classics from the Gershwins,
Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, Styne, Weill, Porter, Coward, Comden & Green, Arlen, Mercer, Burke, Lane,
Harburg, and many more.
Previously he was General Manager and Director of Music and Marketing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide, a premier
licensing agency. He has produced over 100 shows, concerts, workshops, and readings for major Broadway and off-
Broadway companies, including the Shubert Organization, Jujamcyn Theaters, Public Theater/NYSF, Manhattan
Theatre Club, O'Neill Theater Center, York Theatre, and Melting Pot Theatre. His own work has been performed in
New York, at regional theatres around the country, and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. He has been on the
faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program since 2002.
Sean has had the privilege of working with Stephen Sondheim on many projects, including Saturday Night, Do I Hear
A Waltz?, Follies, Passion, and Bounce. He has worked on dozens of new musicals with authors such as John
Weidman, Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, and Mike Reid & Sarah Schlesinger, among others. He was a music
editor for Music Theatre International and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. Sean has also been an arts
journalist and editor for 13 years, with over 200 articles published in The Sondheim Review, Show Music, Playbill, and
(the former) Theatre.com/BroadwayOnline.com. He has written liner notes for many albums on Nonesuch Records
and PS Classics, and has produced cast albums and demo recordings.
A native of Minnesota, Sean received degrees in Music and English with multiple honors from Boston College, where
he was a Presidential Scholar; an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts, where he was an Oscar Hammerstein II Fellow; and an MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn
College, where he received several fellowships. Sean lives in Westchester with his wife, Allison Mitchell Flahaven, and
their son, Will.
CONTACT SEAN
RECENT LINKS:
NY POST - Sunday, June 15, 2008
BOLSTERING BROADWAY- WARNER FOCUSING EFFORTS ON THEATER SCENE
BILLBOARD - June 7, 2008
The Publisher's Place - A Day At The Met
BILLBOARD - May 29, 2008
Warner/Chappell Appoints Theatrical Music VP
