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Meg Olssen

Meg Olssen - Oxford School of Drama 2023 Graduate

Meg Olssen

Graduation Year: 2023

Graduation Course: Three Year Course

Meg is from Leeds in Yorkshire. Prior to joining The Oxford School of Drama she gained experience in screen work through campaigns for NSPCC and various features including, winning best horror film in the Andromeda film festival in 2021. She found a passion for Shakespeare while playing Ophelia in Hamlet which toured around Yorkshire and led to her auditioning for drama school. Meg was also a finalist in the Luke Westlake Scholarship (JAM) in her second year of training at OSD.

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