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Lydia King is guest lead in The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco

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Lydia stars in The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, a spinoff from the UK period drama The Bletchley Circle. It is produced by BritBox which is run by BBC Worldwide and ITV.

The original The Bletchley Circle series followed a group of four female codebreakers at the famous World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, who went on to use their skills to investigate a series of complex crimes. It was on ITV in the UK and PBS in the US.

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco will be aired on ITV later in 2018. It will follow two of the original lead characters, Millie (Rachel Stirling) and Jean (Julie Graham), as they travel to 1956 America and join forces with two US codebreakers to tackle a string of murder cases. Lydia will be one of the guest leads in the series.

See Lydia with some useful tips for your first day on set and, indeed, for life in general! 

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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