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Kiran Sonia Sawar has been nominated for a Best Actress Award by BAFTA Scotland

Kiran has been nominated for a Best Actress Award for her performance in Netflix’s Black Mirror as Shazia Akhan in the episode Crocodile.

Kiran’s character is trying to get to find the truth of what happened when a vehicle hit a pedestrian by using a machine to help access people’s memories. She starred alongside Andrea Riseborough and OSD grad Andrew Gower in the mystery thriller filmed in Iceland.

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The other nominees in the category of Best Actress on Television are Morven Christie for The A Word and Elaine C Smith for Two Doors Down.

The British Academy Scotland Awards celebrate and reward the highest achievements in Scottish Film, Television and Games. Held annually, the Awards continue to be recognised across the country as the gold standard of excellence in the art forms of the moving image. The Awards Ceremony will be streamed live on Facebook from 19:00 GMT on Sunday 4 November. Red Carpet coverage will be live from 17:00.

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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