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Celine Shamdasani

Celine Shamdasani

Graduation Year: 2022

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Celine grew up in Colombo, Sri Lanka and has Indian roots. She began acting in School at the age of 4 and continued to do so whilst travelling in Malaysia and the United Kingdom for her Bachelor’s Degree. Prior to her formal training at The Oxford School of Drama, she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in multiple venues in Malaysia with her University’s Theatre Group and external Theatre Companies. She’s a passionate Bollywood Dancer and has been a choreographer for multiple shows whilst living in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the UK. She’s an active volunteer and wants to use her voice and craft to tell stories that bring about change in the world.

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