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Sam Nafisi

Sam Nafisi

Graduation Year: 2024

Graduation Course: One Year Course

Sam is a British-Iranian actor and a born-and-bred Londoner. He attended his first gig at age 7 and has been chasing the high of creative expression ever since. A passionate singer and musician, Sam will jump at any opportunity to pick up a guitar or bass and have a jam. He has performed with NYMT and the Edinburgh Fringe and performed in and produced short films and music videos for Bullet Salad Productions, a company he co-founded. Sam loves people and the unique stories they have to tell. He relishes collaborating, connecting with others, and engaging with new ideas within his work.

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