Sean A. Mulvihill is an actor, musician, director, writer, producer, visionary leader for a peaceful world — and generally a pretty happy guy. His story begins at the age of 7, when he asked his dad why there were poor people in the world. His father replied that there wasn’t enough money to go around for everyone. Sean replied, “Well the government prints the money, why don’t they print more and give it to the poor people.” His dad said, “It’s not that simple, that would cause inflation…” And the conversation continued, but the little boy’s dream of a world of equality and togetherness began to grow stronger. Abundance and joy seemed to Sean to be everyone’s birthright. He couldn’t even fathom any need for lack or discouragement. And to this day, he cannot. Sean has communed with the divine in direct conversation since those years, listening to silence which sounds like “a thousand lightning bugs”, as Ramana Maharshi once described it. Sean hears the voice of his Creator, loud and clear, and the voice only says one thing: “love-peace-joy” and says this in thousands of eloquent and beautiful ways, many of them silent. In his grammar school years, Sean’s natural quietness and slowness to speak, was drowned out by the type-A world of education — the fastest, wittiest, and oftentimes loudest answer was rewarded most of the time, and in order to compete, he started becoming a bit of a loudmouth. He just wanted to be heard — and in 3rd grade he discovered theatre, in which an audience of people who usually wouldn’t listen to him would have to sit quietly and hear whatever he had to say. And the applause was certainly enjoyable. He had found his first love. At the age of 10, a classmate, Mike Martens, introduced Sean to the exciting world of video production — and his second love was born. This prompted Sean to become the youngest television producer at the local community TV station, and cemented his pseudo-celebrity role in Bolingbrook, IL lore as the producer of a live, late-night teen variety show. A move to Hollywood was inevitable, and at age 18, he hit the road for L.A. He attended the University of Southern California’s School of Theatre in Los Angeles and received a BFA in Acting, but more importantly, he learned how to act, which is synonymous with learning compassion for the inner workings of all people. Lora Zane, a gifted instructor, turned him on to the teaching of Eckhart Tolle, and the new vocabulary with which Sean could use to describe his own awakening was quickly turning into a “life’s work” type of video project. In 2004, at the age of 23, Sean’s idea for a film about enlightenment—did it truly exist?—blossomed into the HD docu/drama feature film, Living Luminaries: On the Serious Business of Happiness (also titled The Awakening of Sean Mulvihill), produced by Wanna Be Now, LLC. On the production, Mr. Mulvihill served as creator, co-writer, co-producer, and as the on-screen host who navigates the viewer on a journey toward happinesss. The film stars Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Marianne Williamson, don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and Michael Bernard Beckwith, among other luminaries. The film is currently in domestic DVD release from Beyond Words, a division of Simon and Schuster, with foreign sales by Fortune Features. After the film’s completion, he spent several years traveling, acting in theatre, and falling in love with the beauty one notices when the mind is still. This voyage of exploration led him as far away as Macau, China, but brought him once again to Los Angeles, where he likes the (1) climate, (2) the high level of film/video production, and (3) the amount of “spiritual” people. For him, it’s a good place. And he has deeply discovered upon his return that his truest love is (4) inner peace. Hollywood Happiness was born in a dream on a May morning in 2010, and the vision of “cooperative, inspiring film production” has been in place ever since. Currently, Sean is directing the feature comedy, HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR scheduled for wide theatrical release in November 2013.
