Sean Harris Oliver is a Canadian actor and playwright. He is most noted for his play The Fighting Season, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.[1]

The Fighting Season is a war drama which was based in part on Oliver's father, an orthopedic surgeon who served as an army doctor during the War in Afghanistan.[2] Following a run at the 2015 Vancouver Fringe Festival,[3] the play had its commercial premiere in Vancouver in January 2017,[2] and was published in book form by Scirocco Drama in 2019.

Oliver's other plays have included Bright Blue Future[4] and Redpatch, a collaboration with Raes Calvert.[5]

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