William Seaward

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William Vincent Seaward, 8th June 1986- present day. Director and actor. Founder and director of 'The Strolling Theatricals', a theatre company based in the United Kingdom, William Seaward initiated acting serious plays on a bouncy castle.

1 Early Life
2 Career
3 Acting Style
4 References

[edit] Early Life

Born on 8 June 1986 in London to two barristers, Martin and Siobhan Seaward, he is the eldest of 4 siblings. He attended Francesca Cabrini Primary School until 1993, then Margerate Roper Primary School until his secondary education at St. Johnfisher School, where he quickly developed an aptitude for the dramatic arts. He continued there for 6th form, achieving good grades and narrowly missing out on becoming Head Boy. After taking a gap year to teach English in South America , he went on in 2005 to study a joint degree, English literature and History of Art at the University of York. He joined Goodricke College and he has just completed his third year.

[edit] Career

Will worked between 2004-2005 at nauticalia, a retail company that specialise in the sale of nautically themed products.^[1] Since leaving Nauticalia he has concentrated on his studies and his work in the Arts, though he has occasionally painted portraits on commission.

A "bona fide campus legend"^[2] he used the university setting to quickly become a prominent figure in the universities societies based in the arts. He landed principal roles in some of the largest productions of his first year, and became the only chair of PantSoc, the university pantomime society to serve for two consecutive years. He served on the committee of DramaSoc and was also a regular guest on a show on URY, the university's radio station.

Within PantSoc he directed and performed in the Peter Pan...tomime, a student pantomime which satirised reality television. The show was a widespread success, attracting record audiences for the society, and with Will giving "the performance of the Evening."^[3]

The Strolling Theatricals William founded the strolling theatricals in 2006, a small drama company to take shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It was with this company, that William developed his signature Bouncy Castle Experiment, where he edited and performed Shakespeare pieces entirely on a bouncy castle, usually for comic effect.^[4] He directed Bouncy Castle Hamlet and Bouncy Castle Macbeth in 2006 and 2007 respectively, receiving mixed, but predominantly positive reviews from critics.^[5] They recently appeared on Britain's Got Talent however, they were not well received.^[6] Will plans to direct and star in another Bouncy Castle Experiment production in summer 2008, Bouncy Castle Dracula.^[7]

[edit] Acting Style

William is often compared to Brian Blessed, due to his size and awesome stage presence both physically and vocally.^[8] He is also famed for making notoriously bad puns, usually involving mistranslating English words and phrases to a foreign language. A typical example would be: