The Oxford School of Drama

Spring 2018 Newsletter

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It’s been a busy start to 2018…

Claire Foy was nominated for both a Golden Globe and Screen Actors’ Guild aware for the 2nd year running for The Crown and is busy filming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sequel; Babou Ceesay is filming the 3rd season of the the US TV series Into the Badlands; Sophie Cookson is filming Red Joan directed by Trevor Nunn with Judi Dench; Annabel Scholey plays Amena in Sky’s Britannia written by Jez Butterworth; Richard Flood plays Ford, a regular character in HBO’s 8th season of Shameless.

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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