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Hannah Balogun

Hannah Balogun - The Oxford School of Drama

Hannah Balogun

Graduation Year: 2023

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Hannah is a London-based actress of Nigerian Heritage. Prior to her training at the Oxford School of Drama, she graduated with a First Class in Criminology and Social Psychology. She began acting in 2019 and has since worked with a number of theatres including The Lyric Hammersmith, Headlong and Theatre Center. Credits include ‘In Love and Loyalty’, a reimagining of Sophocles’ Electra, the Lyric Hammersmith’s (2020) and ‘The White Card’, Northern Stage Production, Soho Theatre(2022).

Alongside acting, Hannah loves reading, choral singing and is extremely passionate about social justice and raising awareness for her genetic disorder, ‘Sickle Cell Anemia’.

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