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Victoria Blunt, Gary Pillai and Grace Cheatle in productions at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre

Victoria Blunt

Victoria is currently undertaking a UK and international tour of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, which visits:

  • 16 – 20 May York Theatre Royal
  • 23 – 27 May Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
  • 6 – 10 June Theatre Royal, Norwich
  • 20 – 24 June Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury
  • 27 – 30 June Neuss Globe Theatre, Germany
  • 4 – 8 July Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
  • 12 – 14 July Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
  • 18 – 22 July The Watermill Theatre, Newbury
  • 25 July – 3 August Bodleian Library, Oxford

gary grace

Gary and Grace are currently in rehearsal for Alan Ayckbourn’s Garden and House which run from 25 May – 1 July at The Watermill Theatre. Alan Ayckbourn’s pair of comedies will be performed simultaneously by the same cast between the theatre and the theatre’s gardens. With hilarious consequences, one character’s entrance to House in the theatre is another’s exit outside from Garden in this fast-paced duo of plays!

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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