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Producing, directing and script-editing audio
drama has become the main focus of John's professional life over
the last few years. For Big Finish Productions he produced the
2000 AD series featuring the comic-strip characters of
Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog. Of the eighteen titles
in the series released to date, John has directed eleven of them
along with the voice acting for the Judge Dredd console
game, working with versatile voice artist Toby Longworth and the
star of Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg.
Also for Big Finish, John produced the highly successful Doctor
Who spin-off series, Doctor Who Unbound for which he
had to cast six new actors in the role of the famous Time Lord.
These included David Warner, Derek Jacobi, Arabella Weir and Geoffrey
Bayldon. For the BBCi website, John recently directed their second
Ghosts of Albion animated web drama, Embers which
starred Anthony Daniels and Emma Samms. Other work for Big Finish
has included directing episodes of Doctor Who (with Peter
Davison and Sylvester McCoy), Professor Bernice Summerfield,
U.N.I.T. and Sapphire and Steel (with David Warner
and Susannah Harker). John also had an enjoyable collaboration
with Nicholas Briggs when he script-edited all three series of
Dalek Empire.
Prior to his life in the exciting world of sound,
John has worked for such acronyms as the RSPCA, the DHSS (as it
was then) and the BBC. He then went on to work in magazine publishing
as a freelance writer and subsequently editor of such illustrious
publications as Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Official
Poster Magazine, Film Review and Cult Times.
After launching the short-lived ETV magazine (that's Emergency
Television!), John was head-hunted by the UK Sci-Fi Channel to
become their Marketing Manager and Web Editor.
In 2000, John produced and directed his first
stage play, Deceptions by Paul Wheeler. The production
starred Jacqueline Pearce and was a critical success which the
author proclaimed to be the best production of his play that he
had seen to date. Deceptions lead to John being invited
to direct for Big Finish Productions.
John established Noise Monster Productions
to develop, produce and market his own audio and publishing projects
of which Space: 1889 is the first. He is looking forward
to exploring new markets, producing high-quality products and
ensuring that he and everyone who works for Noise Monster
enjoys the experience.
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