Sean Gustavus Tarjyoto was born on the Macao Peninsula to a single mother and grew up in Eugene and Portland, Oregon with his grandparents, who showered him with love and opened their house to many guests and family members, and sometimes even some kind of lizard. He graduated from the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Art & Social Action. His final colloquium Demonstration of Freedom (2002), was a random survey of co-eds' and peers thoughts about American political life in 2003. He continued to study cinema at the 4-year graduate media program at Hunter College while booking auditions for national commercials, including one with Rooney Mara for Calvin Klein. During this time, Sean wrote and played his own ghost in the short horror story Is There Anything Else? (2009), made possible by the Asian American Film Lab 72-hour shootout. Sean's final projects at Hunter, Q&A (2009), Tarjeta Means Card (2010), and A Better Tomorrow (2010) are each personal meta-essays on the fundamental problems of confessional social media. When outside of the editing room, Sean played leads in several short films and videos at Columbia University. Mr. A (2008), followed Kenny, a troubled Korean-American teenager living in a small town, and tied a Student regional Oscar for best narrative that year. A year later, Sean played Bobby in The Queen (2010), directed by Christina Choe (Nancy (2018)), and won several audience awards at multiple international festivals. Sean then went on to study Meisner technique and improvisational comedy in New York City for several years. He improvised with founder and former boss, Ali Reza at the People's Improv Theater, before returning to Portland, Oregon. You may have seen him in Shrill (2019), Pig (2021) and the Portlandia: No Thank You (2018) episode with Rachel Bloom.