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Jude Owusu, currently at Shakespeare’s Globe, narrates RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships

Jude Owusu

Jude’s narration of The Bone Ships has just been released.  The Bone Ships is the epic saga of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker.

Praise for The Bone Ships:

“A vividly realized high-seas epic that pulls you deep into its world and keeps you tangled there until the very last word.” –Evan Winter, author of The Rage of Dragons

“The Bone Ships is excellent. Aside from the standout writing, it’s one of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I’ve seen in years.” –Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author

Available September 24, 2019 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Orbit.

Jude can currently be see on the stage of Shakespeare’s Globe in The Merry Wives of Windsor (photo by Helen Murray) and will shortly open in The Taming of the Shrew at the theatre.

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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