Sean Harris Oliver is a

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actor and playwright. He is most noted for his play ''The Fighting Season'', which was shortlisted for the

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at the

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.Laura Lynch and Glen Kugelstadt
"Chaos, horror, trauma: B.C. playwright's war drama inspired by father's work in Kandahar hospital"

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British Columbia, January 28, 2017. Following a run at the 2015

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, the play had its commercial premiere in

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in January 2017, and was published in book form by Scirocco Drama in 2019. Oliver's other plays have included ''Bright Blue Future'' and ''Redpatch'', a collaboration with Raes Calvert. In 2024, Oliver co-wrote the screenplay for the independent horror film '' Hunting Matthew Nichols'' with his friend Markian Tarasiuk, both of whom graduated from

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