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Eleanor Cross

Eleanor Cross - The Oxford School of Drama

Eleanor Cross

Graduation Year: 2023

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Eleanor was born and raised in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Prior to attending the Oxford School of Drama she studied Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London and later qualified as a teacher. Eleanor has trained and performed with the National Youth Theatre and The Royal Exchange Young Company; she has also worked for The National Youth Theatre, Contact Theatre and Leeds Heritage Theatres as a facilitator and assistant-director, where she was able to exercise her interests in theatre making. Eleanor is a skilled dancer, addicted to Steak Bakes and is admittedly too competitive when playing board games.

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