Johnny Flynn

Composer

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Assistant: Shannon Black

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Johnny Flynn is an award winning and critically acclaimed actor and musician who has worked extensively across film, television and theatre. His work as a musician has found critical acclaim and a sizeable audience through the years, his most recent musical collaboration with Robert Macfarlane on the album Lost In The Cedar Wood is of particular note. His band JOHNNY FLYNN & THE SUSSEX WIT have released four albums and toured the world.

Flynn has scored and composed for numerous projects, including some in which he also appeared in front of the camera. These include the credits song Queen Bee for Autumn De Wilde’s debut feature EMMA, contributing music to SONG ONE directed by Kate Barker-Froyland and additional songs and music for STARDUST.

Other compositional work in film and television includes THE SCORE, which not only features new compositional work, but re-workings of music from his catalogue, the score for Netflix series THE LAST CZARS alongside band member Joe Zeitlin and collaborating with composer Dan Michaelson on DETECTORISTS. Additionally, Flynn composed the score for director Brian Crano's film A BAG OF HAMMERS for which the soundtrack has been realised and is downloadable. 

Additional works of note include the recently composed MAGNITSKY; THE MUSICAL for which songs he won a BBC Audio Drama Award and the music for OAK TREE CLOSE, a dramatic piece for BBC Radio 4 directed by Jessica Dromgoole. In the world of theatre, he has composed an original instrumental score for a production of AS YOU LIKE IT which ran at Shakespeare's Globe and the score for the West End production of TRUE WEST by Sam Shepherd. Flynn composed the score for Amazon Audible's latest production of Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Flynn is has most recently toured Lost In The Cedar Wood with Robert Macfarlane across the UK.

 

Film

ProductionCompanyNotes

THE SCORE

2021

Sentinel Entertainment and WestEnd Films

Dir: Malachi Smyth
Prods: Ben Pullen, Matthew James Wilkinson

EMMA
Additional Score and Songs

2020

Working Title Films and Focus Features

Dir: Autumn De Wilde
Prods: Tim Bevan, Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Eric Fellner

SONG ONE
Additional Score and Songs

2014

Worldview Entertainment

Dir: Kate Barker-Froyland
Prods: Molly Conners, Jonathan Demme, Anne Hathaway, Marc Platt

A BAG OF HAMMERS

2011

Submarine Entertainment

Dir: Brian Crano
Prods: Jennifer Barrons, Brian Crano, Lucy Barzun Donnelly, Peter Friedlander

STARDUST
Additional Score and Songs

2007

Paramount Pictures

Dir: Matthew Vaughn
Prods: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Michael Dreyer, Neil Gaiman, Matthew Vaughn

Television

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DIGGING FOR BRITAIN
Theme song for Series 9
Collaboration with Robert MacFarlene

2022

360 Production

THE LAST CZARS
Collaboration with Joseph Zeitlin

2019

Nutopia and Netflix

Dirs: Adrian McDowall and Gareth Tunley
Prods: Ben Goold and Jane Root

DETECTORISTS
Collaboration with Dan Michaelson

2017

Channel X and BBC

Dir: Mackenzie Crook
Prods: Alan Marke, Jim Reid, Lisa Thomas, Kristian Smith, Jonno Richards, Alex Moody, Shane Murphy

Theatre

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ZOG THE MUSICAL

2019

Magic Light Pictures

Writers: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Dir: Mike Shepherd

TRUE WEST

2019

Roundabout Theatre Company

Playwright: Sam Shepherd
Dir: Matthew Dunster

AS YOU LIKE IT

2015

Shakespeare's Globe

Dir: Blanche McIntyre

THE HERETIC

2011

Concord Theatricals

Playwright: Richard Bean

Radio

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MAGNITSKY THE MUSICAL

2022

BBC Radio 3

Dir: Sasha Yevtushenko

OAK TREE CLOSE

2021

BBC Radio 4

Dir: Jessica Dromgoole

AS YOU LIKE IT

2015

BBC Radio 3

Prod: Sally Avens

Other

ProductionCompanyNotes

THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
Audiobook

2024

Audible / Amazon

Writer: Agatha Christie
Dir: Alice Lowe