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Louis Searle

Louis Searle

Graduation Year: 2024

Graduation Course: Three Year Course

Louis is an English/Irish actor of working-class stock from a seaside town. Frequent visits to his local cinema as a child sparked his intrigue in the craft of acting. Aside from his main love of acting, he likes to study cultures and mythologies, particularly Nordic history. He speaks German and is currently learning Swedish. He also taught himself to play Guitar, Drums and Bass due to his passion for rock and metal music. When he isn’t working on his craft, he can be found in his hometown skateboarding along the seafront, going to the cinema and writing his own screenplays. He is also a member of the National Youth Theatre.

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