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Claire Foy is nominated in two categories in The Critics’ Circle Film Awards

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Claire has been nominated in the categories of BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS for First Man and BEST BRITISH ACTRESS.  Claire has had a very busy 2018.  As well as the release of season 2 of The Crown on the small screen she has released three feature films: First Man, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and Unsane.

It has been a busy year in terms of award nominations also.  As well as a Golden Globe and The Critics’ Circle Award, Claire has recently been nominated in the following awards:

Seattle Film Critics Society – Best Supporting Actress

Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Virtuoso Award

Online Association of Female Film Critics – Best Supporting Female

Critics’ Choice Award – #SeeHer award which is given to someone who ‘pushes the boundaries on changing stereotypes and for recognizing the importance of authentic portrayals of women in the entertainment industry’

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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