Seamus McNally

Seamus McNally is a New York/Berlin based filmmaker, also working as a professional acting coach and teacher for over twenty years. He coaches actors privately, and consults directors internationally for a wide array of film and television productions. Recent projects include: Roots, Vinyl , Orange is the New Black, The Night Of, Too Old To Die Young, Black Mirror, The Widow, Clarice, American Rust, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Book of Clarence. As a filmmaker, Seamus co-directed the feature film: Intet (Nothing), Nominated by Danish Film Academy for best youth film and best adapted screenplay (Trine Piil). Seamus has directed numerous narrative short films including: To Paint the Portrait of a Bird, The Hypnotist, Sketches of Honey, Good Old Days, Exchange Place, and an excerpt from Mike Leigh's Ecstasy to name a few. His films have premiered at Cannes, Montreal, Woodstock, Mill Valley, Seminci/ Valladolid, Fantastic Fest/Austin and he won Best Short Film at the final NY/Avignon Film Festival.