The Oxford School of Drama

Notable Alumni

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Catherine McCormack

Actress

Catherine McCormack has worked on the following productions:
  • Murron in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart
  • All My Sons, Free, Dinner and Honour for the National Theatre
  • Veronica Franco in Dangerous Beauty
  • Alice Ross in 28 Weeks Later
  • Christina in Dancing at Lughnasa
  • Elizabeth Hadley in Spy Game
  • Alex Tropper in the AppleTV+ series Slow Horses
  • Mary Carney in Sam Mendes’s The Ferryman (West End and Broadway)
  • Kate in Cordelia
  • Beth in Sky 1’s Temple

Awards:

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee 2001

Catherine McCormack graduated from the

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