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August 2023 Theatre News – OSD Graduates

London, Edfringe and Camden Fringe, it’s all happening this month! Here’s some lovely August theatre news from some of our OSD graduates! 🤩

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Sara Houghton and Tanya Reynolds will be performing in A Mirror by Sam Holcroft.

15 Aug - 23 Sept at Almeida Theatre.
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Thomas Joseph Burr will be performing in the solo show Collar. Written by Thomas and grad Hannah McLeod.

4-26 Aug, theSpace on the Mile.
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Maryam Grace will be performing in Sh!tfaced Shakespeare.

2-27 Aug at The Pleasance
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Catherine Kay will be performing in Wildcat’s Last Waltz.

3-26 August at the Assembly Rooms
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Chloe Britain will be performing in The Improv Musical.

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
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Iszy Rathband will be performing in the show In Memoriam.

21-26 August at theSpace Surgeon’s Hall
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Ben Fensome’s play Buff.

From 2-28 August At The Pleasance
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Kerena Jagpal will be performing in Brown Girl Noise.Theatre.

13 - 16 August at The Hope
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Jacob Baird, Sasha Brooks, Nisha Emich, Hannah McLeod, Kip O’Sullivan and Janik Rajapakse will be performing in The Emperor’s New Clothes, adapted and directed by the cast.

21-23 August at the Canal Café Theatre

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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