I am Sean Hauser (1993), a musician, songwriter, singer, and theater maker from Amsterdam. My work is created at the intersection of music and theater—a place that feels like coming home to me. I grew up in the wings, as the son of a director and a choreographer. Early on, I learned that art is not just something you make, but also a way of looking at the world and relating to it.

For me, music and theater are ways to search, understand, and sometimes to soothe. From my Curaçaoan background, I feel a strong need to bring different worlds together. In my music, you can hear influences from Latin America and the Caribbean, interwoven with contemporary pop. For me, composing starts with observing what is happening on the street, how major social trends influence everyday life. My work is poetic, but also physical: I think and feel through movement, and explore how the body can deepen the emotion of music.

My path as a maker has taken shape step by step. During and after my studies in Theater Studies and International Dramaturgy, I discovered how broad my interests lie—from music theater to street theater, from intimate performances to work in public spaces. Collaborations have been essential in this. For example, I created the operas Alma Grande and Metamorphosis with composer Nuno Lobo, and I have worked at O. Festival and Het Liedhuis, among others.

An important step in my development was the founding of Het Markttheater. With this contemporary folk theater company, we bring theater back to the market, with the Dappermarkt as our home base. It is a place where I have developed not only as a maker and performer, but also as a producer—and where I learned how important it is to bring art close to people.

In my work, I constantly return to social themes that touch me: gentrification, homelessness, the climate crisis, and decolonial stories. I feel a responsibility in this, but also a personal involvement—especially when it comes to the visibility of Curaçaoan history and culture. At the same time, I try not to lose lightness and humor; it is precisely there that space for encounter often arises. In 2026-2027, I am developing the performance DADA about my Curaçaoan great-grandfather / anti-colonial activist Medardo de Marchena at RIGHTABOUTNOW INC. with performers AldaÏr Pieters and Michael Wanga.

Together with my partner Claudia Bloom, I make Spanish-language Latin folk-pop music as a duo. We perform in the Netherlands, Spain, and South America, and are currently working on our first album Amor, Duelo i Cel, which will be released in the fall of 2026. This project feels like a new layer for me: more personal, more vulnerable, and musically free.

In addition to my artistic work, I am a board member of the Medardo de Marchena foundation—a role in which my commitment to history, justice, and representation comes together in a different way.