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Annalea Reynolds

Annalea Reynolds

Graduation Year: 2024

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Annalea grew up in a multicultural household in a small town in Surrey. Prior to training at The Oxford School of Drama, she studied English Literature at King’s College London and Screenwriting at the University of California. Upon graduating, she worked as a Production Assistant on the feature films Argylle and Disney’s Snow White, which became a catalyst in her pursuit of performing. She then trained at the Almeida Young Company and National Youth Theatre before joining OSD. Annalea is a film enthusiast, having watched 370 films in 2023, and is also very passionate about fashion design. She hopes to marry her love of writing with her acting to create a platform for untold stories that leave an impact.

Seamus Allen

Seamus trained in his hometown, Dublin at the Conservatory of Music and Drama. After graduating he toured nationally with some of Ireland’s premier children’s theatre companies, as well as developing and performing clown performances for Barrabbas, and magic shows for Cahoots N.I. 

Since moving to the UK Seamus has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth and Robin Hood (Creation Theatre Company), Quest (Folklore Presents) The Disappearance (The Sticking Place),and Where’s My Desi Soulmate? (Rifco Arts). Tv work includes Bear Behaving Badly (Thames Valley).  Seamus is also a skilled improviser, training with Ken Campbell’s School of Night and core cast in the annual London 50 hour Improvathons and performs with “Austentatious, The improvised Jane Austen Novel”.  

Seamus was the director of the Young Company at the Watermill theatre in Newbury. He established Readings only Improvisation comedy club, “What’s the Game?! Improv”, hosting shows as well as coaching professional performers.  Seamus was Head of acting at Read college, a course which he wrote and which became one of the most successful Foundation courses for getting students into the top acting degree programmes in the UK.  Most recently he has been Head of Year at Drama Studio London and gained an MSc in Performance Psychology focusing on excellence in actor training.

Seamus is Head of Foundation and teaches on the Foundation Courses