Sébastien Heins (he/him) is a Canadian-born, Jamaican-German actor, writer, producer, and emerging director. His theatre credits include the Stratford Festival’s The Tempest, The School for Scandal, The Comedy of Errors, and Breath of Kings; new Canadian plays Bang Bang, Wedding at Aulis, and The Green Man; immersive productions Trojan Girls, The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries, Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play, Mr. Marmalade, and Vitals. His screen credits include Ghosts of Xmas Past, The Listener, Cracked, The Drip, and Darknet. He won the City Stories Award for writing, directing and starring in the 60 second short Her Chance To Dream at TUFF. For creating & performing Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera, he won the Best Emerging Artist award in NYC’s United Solo Festival, and went on to extensively tour Canada and India, as well as the Stratford Festival Forum. He is the creator of the live theatre-videogame The Itinerary: Playtest, and directed good white men by David Yee for University of Windsor. He has lead Vocal Masque, Shakespeare, and acting workshops at Etobicoke School of the Arts, the University of Bangalore, The Belfry, CultureLink, the Stratford Festival, and many more.
He is Associate Artistic Director and a founding member of the acclaimed Toronto theatre company, Outside the March. He serves as artist-in-residence at the BMO Lab for Tech-in Arts. He trained at the National Theatre School of Canada and The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.