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Isabella Northrop

Isabella Northrop

Graduation Year: 2024

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Isabella is a dual-national British-Australian actor who grew up between Surrey and Melbourne. In 2019, she returned to the UK to train on the Foundation Course at The Oxford School of Drama. Over the years, Isabella has trained and performed with the National Youth Theatre, the National Institute of Dramatic Art’s Young Actors Studio, and the Adelaide Fringe Festival before joining the One Year Course at OSD. Isabella is equally passionate about singing and Musical Theatre, a passion she has had since the age of 7 when she joined the UK tour of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat. She is a highly-trained singer and spent the entirety of her schooling as a chorister.

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