The Oxford School of Drama

February 2023 Theatre News – OSD Graduates

Here’s some fantastic Theatre news from some of our OSD graduates for February. Congratulations to all!

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Maimuna Memon will be playing the role of Nikki in Standing at the Sky's Edge at the National Theatre.

Olivier Theatre
9th Feb - 25th March
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James Meteyard will be playing the role of Pops in the National Tour of Unexpected Twist.

Performing at various venues
11th Feb - 10th June
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Shaun Jenkinson and Charlie Shephard will be both performing in The New Wolsey Theatre’s production of DNA.

3rd - 9th Feb
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Gemma Barnett will be playing the role of Jenny at the Park Theatre.

Performing at various venues.
15th Feb - 11th March
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Oscar Adams will be playing the role of Aidan in My Brother’s Keeper.


Theatre 503
14th Feb - 4th March
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Francesca Marago and Bethany O’Halloran will be both performing in the play When Everyone Talks At Once.

The Playground Theatre
8th - 11th Feb
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Edward Oulton has written his debut play Mortality. Edward will be playing the role of Dan.


The Hope Theatre
21st - 25th Feb
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Clementine Blake, Hannah Churchill and Reece Webster will all be performing in the National Tour of Little Women.

Performing at various venues from
12th Feb - 5th April
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Chris Weeks will be starring as the role of Buddy in the UK tour of Buddy the Musical.

Performing at various venues in the UK throughout 2023
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Megan Louise Wilson is currently performing in the UK tour of Pride & Prejudice (sort of).

Various venues until
24th June
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Diya Vencatasawmy played the role of Molly in Don’t Smoke in Bed.

Vault Festival
31st Jan - 5th Feb

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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