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Faye Castelow nominated for Best Performance in 2019 UK Theatre Awards

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Faye has been nominated in the Best Performance category of this year’s UK Theatre Awards for her portrayal of the Queen in the first ever regional production of Peter Morgan’s The Audience. The production was at Nuffield Southampton Theatres earlier this year. The production was cast by fellow OSD graduate, Annelie Powell CDG.

The full list of nominees is::

Best Performance in a Play

  • Faye Castelow for The Audience, a Nuffield Southampton Theatres production
  • Hiran Abeysekera for Life of Pi, a Sheffield Theatres Production
  • Kudzai Sitima for Princess & The Hustler, an Eclipse Theatre Company, Bristol Old Vic and Hull Truck Theatre production
  • Mark Gatiss for The Madness of King George III, a Nottingham Playhouse production
  • The winner will be announced on Sunday 27 October 2019.

For 27 years the UK Theatre Awards have been the only nationwide awards to celebrate the outstanding achievements of regional and national theatre.

https://uktheatre.org/training-events/uk-theatre-awards/uk-theatre-awards-2019/
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2019/uk-theatre-awards-2019-the-nominations-in-full/

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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