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The 2019 Vault Festival showcases the range of work being written, performed and produced by OSD graduates

Vault Festival

We are really proud of the creativity of our graduates, many of whom are writing, producing and performing their own work to high critical acclaim.

The 2019 Vault Festival is proof of this with four students who are performing their own work:
Robbie Curran’s Thomas 23-7 Jan
Tom Ratcliffe’s Velvet 30 Jan – 3 Feb
Will Adamsdale’s Work in Progress 8 – 9 Feb
Lewis Doherty’s Boar 6 March

Two who have written plays:
Hayley Wareham’s Bottled 13 – 17 Feb
Cordelia O’Neill for The Apologists 20 – 24 Feb

Two shows produced and performed by OSD graduates:
Jill Rutland in Thrown 6 – 10 March
Wildcard Theatre’s 17 23 – 27 Jan

And four in which OSD graduates are acting:
Gabriella Schmidt in Juniper and Jules 23-27 Jan
Ben Lydon in Thomas 23-7 Jan
Owen Jenkins in One Duck Down 11 Feb-10 March
Annice Boparai in Silently Hoping 20 – 24 Feb

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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