Who Is Seamas Carey?

"I'm not a great believer in talent but then I met Seamas Carey. Talent combined with an ability to not only think but be "outside the box". Not totally convinced by the moustache though."

Mike Shepherd, Kneehigh Theatre

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Seamas Carey is a Cornish artist/bloke best known for the podcast series The Reason Why, a humorous and thought provoking exploration of the social issues and culture wars of contemporary Cornwall.

His one man, controversial sell out comedy show Help! I Think I’m A Nationalist has toured throughout the UK and may return in 2025.

Other work includes; Pagan Pandemonium, I Wish I Was A Standing Stone and Seamas Carey Meets His 4 Year Old Self (Emma Rice’s 2019 theatre highlight, The Guardian). He also conducts Cornwall’s first alternative male voice choir, Men Are Singing. In 2020 he won the Maurice O’Connell Bursary Award and the following year he exhibited a solo show at Tate St Ives.

As a multi-instrumentalist (accordion, piano, double bass, bagpipes) Seamas worked for ten years as a composer, performer, choir leader, musical director, puppeteer, silent film pianist and piano tuner. He grew up in Cornwall where he still lives, but has performed at Shakespeares Globe, London’s Westend and toured throughout the world with theatre productions by Wildworks, Kneehigh and Sally Cookson.