Sebastián holds a degree in Theater from the Universidad de Valparaíso with concentration in Dramaturgy. His first play was Colgadas de Peñalolén, inspired by a real event. He produced the documentary Mosaico de pescadores, a play with artisanal fishermen. He is the director and playwright of the company Teatro a la Deriva, whose first play was Brian, el nombre de mi país en llamas; and the second one, Agorafobia, inspired by the tragedy happened at the gay club Divine. Sebastián currently directs El fuego que llevamos dentro, in memory of Nicole Saavedra, a young lesbian murdered in Limache. He produced the play Tirando la pelá, inspired by the experiences of young inmates of a detention center administered by the National Children’s Service (Sename) The play was selected by the Santiago a Mil 2021 International Festival. He also starred in the TV series El Reemplazante, role for which he was nominated for the Altazor Award 2013, and in the film La pasión de Michelangelo, winning the Pedro Sienna Award for Best Male Performance. He is currently the director, screenwriter and star of the feature film La isla de las gaviotas, which addresses the non-binary gender identity of a teenager.

Directed by Valparaíso’s actor and director Sebastián Ayala, this company is a theatrical collective that since 2014 creates plays with original dramaturgy, taking the memory of sexual and gender diversities and dissidences as a central axis, through documentary theater. The company has based its work on a memory research that reveals the historical and/or political reality, generating in the spectator questions about the truths assumed by society regarding gender and sexuality. The collective is composed of cisgender and transgender women, transvestites, non-binary people and gay men, diverse identities that add layers of sensitivity, memory, body and history.