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'''Shawn Phillip Lecrone (Sebastian Lionell) Writer/Director/Producer/Actor'''

EARLY LIFE Shawn Phillip Lecrone, who’s stage name is Sebastian Lionell, was born in Wichita, Kansas, USA, May 2, 1979. Shawn grew up in a divorce torn family and moved around the country well into his teenage years. Always the new kid in school, Shawn Lecrone dropped out of High School and received his General Education Diploma, in which he graduated in the upper 10% in the state of New Mexico. Lecrone came and went from New Mexico State University around 1998-99. He joined the United States Navy and only served for a year before gaining a medical discharge. Years later, Lecrone returned to New Mexico State University where he graduated with honors, Phi Theta Kappa, Dean's List, Crimson Scholar's Honors and making the National Deans List of the top 10% of students in the country.

CAREER Shawn Lecrone became interested in the theater arts with his involvement in the community theater, Alamogordo Music Theater (AMT), while living in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He attributes his grandmother with getting him involved. His first acting experience was on stage in the stage production of “Man of Lamancha”. His interests grew to larger venues and he became drawn to film. Working as a fire fighting through college, Lecrone was hired on his first Hollywood film Transformers. Playing two roles of soldiers, who die in the Qatar Base attack by the Decepticon Blackout. Soon after this, Lecrone's interest in acting grew. Having acted in plays for the majority of his life, and following in his grandmother's lifelong passion for theater, Lecrone soon began acting in other Hollywood features such as The Spy Next Door and Transformers 2. Soon Shawn’s aspirations became to make movies of his own. While basing his company, Wanted Dead Pictures, in Las Cruses, New Mexico, he began researching and learning the business of creating films. He became self taught in all aspects of the field, learning script construction, cinematography, special effects, sound and film editing, and all the aspects he could learn. His first major, full length film was SOUTHWEST, an action-crime-drama genre. He and his wife, actress Danielle Maitland, produced and created the film. All special effects, sound, editing, CG effects, and many more aspects of this film were all done by Shawn. Also to Shawn’s credit is the music video, Dark Klouds with Wichita, Kansas music artist Breezey Blanco. The music video was in conjunction with the movie SOUTHWEST. The movie expanded to a series written, directed and produced by Shawn Lecrone called SOUTHWEST the Series and covers side stories to the feature film SOUTHWEST.

SOURCES Wanted Dead Pictures, Las Cruces, New Mexico New Mexico University-A, Alamogordo, New Mexico The Flickenger Center for the Arts, Alamogordo, New Mexico Alamogordo Music Theater, Alamogordo, New Mexico ThRuidoso News, Ruidoso, New Mexicoe Deming Headlight, Deming, New Mexico The Alamogordo Daily News, Alamogordo, New Mexico Carlsbad Current-Argus, Carlsbad, New, Mexico IMDb Shawn Lecrone, Las Cruces, New Mexico Danielle Maitland, Las Cruces, New Mexico