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Charlotte Mills tours in the anniversary production of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party

Charlotte Mills

Charlotte is currently touring in Theatre Royal Bath’s production of Abigail’s Party. The tour will take her from Bath to Cheltenham, Eastbourne, Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Malvern and Richmond. The cast includes Abigail Abbington (Sherlock), Ben Caplan (Sunny Afternoon) Rose Keegan (Bedroom Farce) and Ciaran Owens (Titus Andronicus).

Abigail’s Party centres on a drinks party hosted by Beverly which descends into chaos as she invites round her new neighbours. It is directed by Sarah Esdaile.

Charlotte was most recently on TV in The Moorside in which she played Amanda Hyett, the sister of Craig Meehan in the BBC1 programme about the abduction of Shannon Matthews.

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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