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Faye Castelow plays the Queen in the regional premiere of Peter Morgan’s The Audience

Faye Castelow to Star in Peter Morgan u2019s The Audience at NST

Faye Castelow will play Queen Elizabeth II in Morgan’s hit play, which explores the relationship between the monarch and her Prime Ministers over the course of more than sixty years.

The production runs at Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ NST City theatre and is directed by the venue’s artistic director Samuel Hodges, with design by Rosanna Vize, sound design by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite and casting by fellow OSD graduate Annelie Powell. Morgan’s other work includes The Crown and the award-winning The Queen.

Hodges said: “At a moment of national uncertainty, the Queen is a uniquely reassuring figure. A constant who has transcended ages of change. Finding an actress who can embody her, from her first audience with Winston Churchill at the age of 25 to the Queen that we know today, is to find a rare quality. Faye Castelow has that quality.”

Faye’s most recent stage appearances include The Rover and The White Devil at the RSC and Man and Superman at the National Theatre,

The play runs from 24th May to 22nd June.

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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