John trained with the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
John’s theatre credits include playing Timon in The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre, West End, a role he originally played and went on to tour with for many years including in the first ever tour of the UK and Ireland in 2012.
Other theatre credits include; Jonny/Consultant, Oxy & The Morons at the New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Peter in The Railway Children for Middle Ground Theatre Company, Sam in Tarnished Angel for the Finborough Theatre, Boult in Pericles for the Ludlow Festival, Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs for the English Theatre Frankfurt, Edwin in The Cub for the Traverse Theatre, Stefano in Mirandolina, Skinner in Forty Years On and Young Charlie in Conversations With My Father, all at The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. He has also played Arty in Lost In Yonkers – Mercury Colchester, the Artful Dodger in Oliver! – Crucible Theatre, Dandini in Cinderella – City Varieties Leeds, Son of McDuff in Macbeth – RSC Barbican and Lampwick in Pinnochio for the Arts Theatre.
Television work includes; Sophie and The Shadow Woods, Anita and Me for the BBC, Dundas in Mighty Hood, Invincible Bismarck for ITV, Lee Carter in Casualty – BBC, Jack in Renford Rejects – Nickleodeon, Paul in Against All Odds – BBC, Access in Harry’s Mad II – Central Productions, Alec in Doctor At The Top – BBC, and T- Shirt in 9 series and 3 Christmas specials of the long-running CITV show T-Bag. On Film he played Irving in 10 Arenas of Marwood, Stephen in Breakout for The Children’s Film Foundation and was in Brazil! directed by Terry Gilliam.
John has also recorded voices for many popular TV and film animations including Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, Gargoyle in Mike the Knight, Toot in Toot the Tiny Tug and all the male characters in CBeebies Get Squiggling. Current animations include playing Zeve and Superfan in Robozuna, Dandy in Gecko’s Garage, Kip in Word Party, Kai in BuddyBots, Radley in Benjamin Bat, Foz in Go Jetters and James and Arnold in Fireman Sam. He was also the voice of Thomas in Thomas & Friends for many years voicing many series and feature films.
As well as the above he has dubbed and recorded ADR on numerous films and television programmes such as Game of Thrones, Dunkirk, Brave, Cloud Atlas, Storage 24, Arthur Christmas, Gnomeo and Juliet, High School Musical, Perfume, High Seas, Gulliver’s Travels, The Tudors, Rome, Silent Witness, Doctor Who and many more.