Fortunately, he was taken home by a kindly lady (as it turned out, his mother), and visitors to Switzerland will notice that this happy event is still celebrated each year on the 1st of August, with jolly brass bands and elaborate firework displays...
 

Following an uneventful childhood, Sebastian spent his teenage years experimenting with writing, before enrolling at Basel University, where he largely managed to avoid  lectures or seminars, and instead used his time to great effect with the university's English language drama group and a theatre company he co-founded: under the aegis of professional directors, theatertheaterEdelGrau performed his first two plays, Sentimental Breakdown... and Dialog. 
 

Encouraged by these early forays, Sebastian abandoned his university studies and returned to England to pursue a career in the theatre, this time settling in London, his favourite place in the world, where he's been living ever since.

By the late Eighties, Sebastian had founded a new theatre company, Aesthetics on Stage, with which he produced four of his plays on the London and Edinburgh fringe. 

In 1991, after simultaneously completing a part-time degree in Social Sciences, a part-time acting course at the City Lit, and doing a full-time job with a frontline drugs agency in Soho, Sebastian joined the post-grad acting course at The Drama Studio London. 

Following this, Sebastian spent the rest of the Nineties working mainly as a writer and actor.  Together with theatre director Michael Cabot, Sebastian set up the production company Michael & Michael which among others brought the British premiere of Dea Loher's award-winning play Tattoo to London in their own translation.

By the mid-nineties, Sebastian, together with actress Charlotte Bicknell, had set up Kissing the Goldfish, the music comedy act which attained near cult status with appearances at three Edinburgh Festivals, two Glastonburys and other festivals and performances in Asia, Australia and Europe.  A break in the performance schedule for 'Goldfish' in 1998 led to Sebastian developing his own solo show Agreeably Mad which he performed at several London venues and at the Edinburgh Pleasance in 2000.  Parts of this show were also seen at the Komedia in Brighton and at the Drill Hall London as part of the English Chanson season in early 2003.
 

In 1998, Sebastian's  play The Power of Love was shortlisted for the coveted Verity Bargate new writing award.  The play was then disqualified from the competition because a highly acclaimed production  at The Southwark Playhouse opened before an announcement of the winner had been made, and so rendered it ineligible as an 'unperformed' play. 

The piece nevertheless ushered in a significant development for Sebastian, as it persuaded top London literary agent Rod Hall to represent him as a writer.  Furthermore, US publisher Smith & Kraus selected no fewer than five excerpts from the play for their 1999 editions of Best Men's Monologues and Best Women's Monologues.

The Power of Love now forms part one of The Love Trilogy.  The second play, Love Hurts, was developed in close collaboration with the Arcola Theatre (winner of the 2001 'Open Space Award'), where it received workshops and a rehearsed public reading. Time After Time is the third and final play in the series and was completed in the Summer of 2004.  It reached the 'final ten' of that year's Verity Bargate Award at the Soho Theatre.  

Other work includes the novel Angel, libretto and lyrics for Monstersound (music by David Klein, Olivier Truan and Nicky Reiss, shortlisted for the Musical of the Year Competition Copenhagen, 1994), and the libretto for the musical Alvaro's Balcony in collaboration with Mercury Workshop Award winner Jonathan Kaldor, which received its first exposure as a rehearsed reading with a cast led by Susannah York at Her Majesty's Theatre in November 2007.