Sean San Jose
Actor · San Francisco, California, USA
Sean San José has a long 30+ year, developing, creating, producing, and premiering new plays. San Jose's theatre work is largely rooted in San Francisco. Sean San José is also part of Edith Productions, Colman Domingo's Production Company, where he serves as Creative Executive. Sean San José is a writer, director, performer and producer. San José is a co-founder of Campo Santo in San Francisco, an award-winning group committed to developing new performance pieces. For 15 years he was the Program Director of Performance for Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco's oldest alternative arts space. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. San José's writing commissions and productions include Play On! for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ictus Productions, Kronos Quartet, Kularts, and others. In his multi-genre work, San José has developed and directed the first performance pieces and plays. As a director, outside of his ongoing decades long work with Campo Santo and new plays creation, he has directed at American Conservatory Theatre, the Getty Villa, Latino Theatre Company, the Painted Bride, among the many spaces throughout the country. He is one of the Rainin/ USA Fellowship 2023 winners for his body of work. Sean San José and Colman Domingo have collaborated together for nearly 30 years, among them co-starring in the feature film Sing Sing (A24), writing development on Domingo's television series West Philly, Baby (AMC), development of Domingo's hit play Dot (New York Theatre Workshop Lab), as the original director.San José's writing commissions and productions include Play On! for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ictus Productions, Kronos Quartet, Kularts, and others. In his multi-genre work, San José has developed and directed the first performance pieces and plays. As a director, outside of his ongoing decades long work with Campo Santo and new plays creation, he has directed at American Conservatory Theatre, the Getty Villa, Latino Theatre Company, the Painted Bride, among the many spaces throughout the country. He is one of the Rainin/ USA Fellowship 2023 winners for his body of work. Sean San José and Colman Domingo have collaborated together for nearly 30 years, among them co-starring in the feature film Sing Sing (A24), writing development on Domingo's television series West Philly, Baby (AMC), development of Domingo's hit play Dot (New York Theatre Workshop Lab), as the original director.
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Biography from IMDb.
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Actor
- 5 on MovieCove · 8 credits in all
What are Sean San Jose's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Sean San Jose's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Sean San Jose's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
8 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page.
Behind the Eight-Ball (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Train Dreams(2025)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all filmsYou'll Lose a Good Thing (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Sing Sing(2023)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Life Tastes Good(1999)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
Dream for an Insomniac(1996)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Mobsters(1991)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all filmsUntitled Simon Rex Short Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 79th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 8 titles, 7 of them dated from 1991 to 2026; peak year 2025.
Film career
Peak 2025 · their film career is on the way up. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1991Screen debut· Mobsters
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Sean San Jose's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 47th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 40th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 5 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 78/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 83, detractors 54. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.