Sebastian McKimm is an Irish theatre-maker and writer based in Vienna. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin [BA (Hons) in English Studies] and the University of Cambridge [MPhil in Film and Screen Studies,] and trained as a director and performer with Socìetas in Cesena, Italy, under Chiara Guidi, Claudia Castellucci and Romeo Castellucci.

From 2022-2025 he was an Assistant Director at the Burgtheater Vienna, where he worked with, among others, Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Barbara Frey, Dead Centre, Stefan Bachmann and Therese Willstedt. In 2024-25 he directed his first German-speaking productions there.

As a director he is interested in working with performers across disciplines, in an effort to hybridise and refine performance languages in dialogue with other artists. This work is tethered to a continuing exploration of texts, objects and performative acts that experiment with language and perspective, whose formal qualities challenge our conceptions of the poetic and reflect on the politics of form as well as the effects of technology on the human sensorium.