John trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and has been working as an actor, voice artist, director and comedy improviser for over forty years.

Film includes Crush, A Waste Of Shame, Penelope, Art Party, The Infiltrator, and Witches of Blackwood.
TV includes Dr Who, Jonathan Creek, Miranda, The Great Train Robbery, Doctors, Holby City (BBC), two appearances in Downton Abbey, Grantchester, Primeval (ITV), Sons of Liberty (The History Channel), Neighbours, Clickbait, and The Clearing. Early theatre includes Merrily We Roll Along (Cambridge Arts and London Bloomsbury Theatre) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe Players Tour).

More recent theatre work includes Fawlty Towers Live (Australia wide tour), Calendar Girls (The Athenaeum) and Car Crash (The Butterfly Club).
As an improviser John represented the UK three times at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, has appeared in countless shows in London and regional UK, and performed in the sell-out show Return of the Secret Seven, here at MICF.

John has also narrated more than forty audiobooks. He is delighted to be joining The Melbourne Shakespeare Company for the first time.
John was born in Oxfordshire, and has lived in Melbourne since 2015.