Cast biographies - Scrotal Recall

15 September 2014

Johnny Flynn, Dylan Witter 

Johnny Flynn is an actor, songwriter and musician. His band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit have made three studio albums and toured all over the world. 

He has been in a number of plays including Richard Bean's 'The Heretic', and Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem'. More recently Flynn played parts in 'Twelfth Night' and 'Richard III' at Shakespeare's Globe and in the West End and the lead in Bruce Norris' 'The Low Road' at the Royal Court.

Johnny fell in love with the theatre at an early age, having a father who was an actor. He has a sister and two brothers in the profession despite their Dad's best efforts to keep them out. 

Johnny's band released their debut record 'A Larum' in 2008, which was followed by the Sweet William EP in 2009 and their second album 'Been Listening' in 2010. His third 'Country Mile' came out in 2013. He also wrote and recorded the score for Brian Crano's 2011 film 'A Bag of Hammers' which is available for download on ITunes. This summer he wrote and recorded the score for Mackenzie Crook's new comedy series 'The Detectorists' starting on BBC3 September 30th. 

Johnny's recent film credits include SONG ONE where he appears opposite Anne Hathaway which premiered at Sundance this year and is scheduled for release in spring 2015. He worked with acclaimed French director Olivier Assayas on Apres Mai and more recently The Clouds Of Sils Maria (alongside Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloe Moretz) which was well received at Cannes and Toronto this year. 

His various nominations include:

London Newcomer of the Year 2012 What's On Stage Awards for The Heretic Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Jerusalem at the 2012 Olivier Awards. He was also nominated for the 2013 Ian Charleston Award for his performance in Twelfth Night.

Antonia Thomas, Evie

Antonia graduated from Bristol Old Vic in the Summer of 2009 and was immediately cast as Alisha in BAFTA-winning series Misfits for E4.

In between filming three series of Misfits, Antonia took the lead role in Brit thriller Rearview and co-starred with Ophelia Lovibond and Tom Hughes in indie Eight Minutes Idle. Following her appearance in a new Coldplay video directed by Mat Whitecross, Antonia was offered a role in his film Spike Island before going on to play the love interest in the Proclaimer’s musical-feature Sunshine on Leith directed by Dexter Fletcher for which she received an Empire-Award nomination for Best Female Newcomer. 

Other films credits include Survivor, Scintilla, Hello Carter and Northern Soul with Steve Coogan which sees its release this Autumn.

Television includes Homefront for ITV, Fleming for Sky Atlantic, The Ark and The Musketeers for BBC, and US series Transporter. Antonia is currently filming the lead in brand new Channel 4 comedy series Scrotal Recall.

 Daniel Ings, Luke

Daniel is best known for playing Jake in the Channel 4 comedy Pete Versus Life, John in The Café for Sky and Kelvin in the BBC comedy drama Psychoville. Other television credits include Uncle for BBC3, W1A for BBC2 and Channel 4’s Peep Show among others.
Theatre work has included One Man Two Governors, Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth and Danny Boyle’s FRANKENSTEIN both at The National, as well as Tory boys at the Soho Theatre.
He has also appeared in the following blockbuster films; Jack Ryan and Pirates of the Caribbean THE CARIBBEAN: On Stranger Tides.

Tom Edge, Writer

Original film projects include teen comedy Henry Versus (Big Talk, Studio Canal, Ben Taylor to direct) and road-trip movie The United Dates OF America for Unanimous Entertainment.

Tom’s adaptation work includes Three Big Men, a true-story comedy which Marc Munden will direct (Origin Pictures, BFI). In the US, Tom is adapting David Mamet’s play The Frog Prince for David Schwimmer to direct. Later in the year he will adapt Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragon Slayer into a family fantasy-adventure (Blueprint / Sky). He is also writing the period comedy-drama Another Brick in the Wall (Left Bank, BBC Films).

Television:

With Hannah Pescod Tom’s developing a dance music comedy for Big Talk, Big Fish Little Fish (exec producer Pete Tong) and for Comedy Central Tom will adapt and Exec Produce an American script acquisition of theirs, Operation Slut. With Isy Suttie he is co-creating another half-hour comedy for Channel 4 (Retort), Me and My Dad.

Tom has been hired by Left Bank / Sony Pictures Television to adapt the non-fiction book "Prairie Fever" into a one-hour returning drama series, which he will write and Exec Produce. He is also adapting the documentary series Great Ormond Street into a drama for Daybreak Pictures.

His writing credits on other people’s shows include PRAM FACE (Little Comet, BBC3, transferring to terrestrial BBC), two episodes of Threesome (Big Talk, Comedy Central) including the season two debut, and production rewrites on series one of E4’s The Midnight Beast for E4. Tom then returned to lead-write series two of The Midnight Beast, rebooting the show and running a writer’s room.

His earliest work as writer-creator was the transmedia thriller Routes (Oil productions / Channel 4), for which he earned nominations from BATA and the Writer’s Guild.