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Faye Castelow plays Hettie in BBC3’s Clique

Faye

The series is hotting up, the twists and turns getting ever greater and OSD graduate, Faye Castelow is playing her part in it all as Hettie, alongside OSD graduate Richard Gadd.

Richard

 Clique has had high praise:

“It’s rare for something to feel so relevant and up-the-minute newscycle-wise without coming across as preachy or out of step, … series two has tapped into something that feels so fresh; something few series have managed.” Den of Geek

 Visit the BBC iPlayer app to see the whole thing.  You can even catch up on Season 1 which stars OSD grad Mark Strepan as Rory

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b03bfj2q

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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