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Emily Stott opens as Caprice Freeboys in A Comedy about a Bank Robbery in the West End

Em Stott

Emily leads the new company for A Comedy about a Bank Robbery which is in its third year in the West End.  Emily has joined the cast at the Criterion in the lead role of Caprice Freeboys.

  The production has received ecstatic reviews:

★★★★★ ‘This is the funniest show in the West End’ The Telegraph

★★★★★ ‘A fast and fabulous comedy caper is a joyful night out’ The Times

Emily’s previous theatre work includes productions at Oldham Coliseum, The Watermill Theatre, The Bunker, Southwark Playhouse, Bolton Octagon and for Wildcard, Not Too Tame and Paines Plough.

http://www.thecomedyaboutabankrobbery.com/cast/

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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