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Two OSD graduate-led companies are shortlisted for the 2019 Untapped Award

Untapped Award

The 2019 New Diorama and Underbelly ‘Untapped’ Award finalists include Kopfkino’s Grand Scheme of Things and Wildcard’s 17.  Kopfkino Theatre is led by OSD One Year Course graduate Nic McQuillan and Flora Marston.  The Grand Scheme of Things was part of a scratch night at The Yard in December 2017, and was subsequently developed as part of Litmus Festival at Pleasance in September 2018.

http://www.kopfkinotheatre.com/

Wildcard was founded by two OSD Three Year Course graduates, Joseph Dawson and James Meteyard.  17 has just been presented at the 2019 Vault Festival, starring another OSD grad, Annice Boparai, where it received enthusiastic reviews:

“A must-see for its raw depiction of the power of friendship amongst an adolescent labyrinth of challenges.” VOICE MAGAZINE

Wildcard’s acclaimed gig theatre production, Electrolyte, will tour this Spring following sell-out performances at Edinburgh last summer.

http://wildcardtheatre.co.uk/

The award is supported by Arts Council England.

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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