Sawyer Estes

Experience

Lir Academy Training

• MFA Theatre Producing - 2026

Other Experience

Sawyer Estes is a theatre director, playwright, and producer currently based in Dublin.

Originally from the United States, he has worked extensively for the past decade primarily through the theatre company he co-founded in 2016, Vernal & Sere Theatre. Estes functioned as the Artistic Director for the ensemble-based company which quickly established itself as a leading experimental theatre in the American Southeast with its eleven productions in a span of eight years.

His play Hurricane Season received its Off-Broadway premiere in 2024 at Theatre Row in New York City. This production from Vernal & Sere Theatre, which he both wrote and directed, was the subject of a profile in American Theatre Magazine.

Other important credits include his original adaptations and stagings of Anne Carson’s The Glass Essay, Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi.

Sawyer holds a BFA from the University of Houston where he was mentored by Edward Albee.

Portfolio and work samples are available at www.sawyerestes.com

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