Sean Collins-Smith is a former midnight crime journalist, journalism professor and nurtures a life-long obsession with Bruce Springsteen. He’s lived in Richmond, Virginia, for all of his 30 years, where he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University after studying cinema and broadcast journalism.

Sean started entering teleplay contests in 2017, when he became a finalist in the Austin Film Festival. Since then, Sean has been in a finalist in the Atlanta Film Festival, the WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Competition, and won the 2018 ISA Fast-Track Fellowship, which connected him to his eventual manager, Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management.

Sean and his wife are moving to Los Angeles in November in pursuit of a television writing career with nothing more than four pilot scripts, two cats and a dream of being a showrunner.

In “Badlands,” Bruce Springsteen declares:

“Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be king,
And a king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything,
I wanna go out tonight,
I wanna find out what I got.”

For Sean, it’s time to cross the country and find out what he’s got.