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Into the Badlands Season 3 starring Babou Ceesay premieres in the US

The third season of Into the Badlands which stars Babou Ceesay as Pilgrim has opened to great reviews in the US. The first episode of the third season of the cult series has been deemed “a can’t miss spectacle” by denofgeek.com

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Into the Badlands is an American television series that premiered on the American cable and satellite TV channel, AMC in 2015. It is based on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West by Chinese author Wun Cheng’ and is the story about a warrior and a young boy who journey through a dangerous feudal land together seeking enlightenment. Babou plays a ‘baddie’ in the third series which premiered on April 22, 2018.

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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