Sean Flahaven

SEAN PATRICK FLAHAVEN is a 2x Grammy Award and 2x Tony Award-winning music and theatre producer, writer, composer, orchestrator, and conductor. He is Chief Theatricals Executive of Concord, the fifth largest music company in the world. Concord Theatricals is the largest and most comprehensive theatrical agency in the world, providing comprehensive services to creators and producers of plays and musicals, including licensing, script publishing, music publishing, and recording. Comprising the catalogues of Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, Samuel French, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, and dozens of new signings each year, CT represents thousands of plays and musicals and hundreds of iconic and contemporary songwriters and recordings. CT also develops and produces shows for Broadway, West End, and internationally.  Prior to Concord, Sean was founding worldwide CEO of The Musical Company, a joint venture between Concord and The Really Useful Group. From 2008-2016, Sean was Senior Vice President of Theatre & Catalog Development for Warner Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. Sean had the privilege of working with Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim for 25 years. He has been a producer on 50 albums, 15 of which were nominated for Grammys, including winners Into the Woods starring Sara Bareilles, and the Diamond-certified Hamilton. He won Tony Awards as a co-producer of the 2019 Best Musical, Hadestown and the 2022 Best Revival of a Musical, Company. He has produced or managed over 100 shows, concerts, workshops, and readings for landmark companies on and off-Broadway, and was General Manager and Director of Music and Marketing for Theatrical Rights Worldwide and a music editor for Music Theatre International and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. As a playwright, composer, and arranger, his work has been performed around the US and at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He was an arts journalist and editor for 13 years, with over 200 published articles. He has been on the adjunct faculty of the NYU-Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program for 22 years. Board service includes the Recording Academy’s NY Chapter Board and Musical Theatre Task Force (Co-Chair), Music Publishers Association (Board President, 2016-2020), ASCAP Symphonic & Concert Committee, The Dramatists Guild’s music and copyright advocacy committees, and the Tony Awards nominating committee. He received The Dramatist Guild Foundation’s inaugural Alan Jay Lerner Award, the NYU Tisch GMTWP Outstanding Alumni Award, and the Boston College Arts Alumni Award. B.A. Music & English, Boston College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Presidential Scholar); M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Oscar Hammerstein 2^nd Fellow); M.F.A. Performing Arts Management, Brooklyn College (several fellowships).