Jeremy Flynn

Jerry Flynn trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art between 1978 and 1980. His contemporaries included Sir Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Richard McCabe, John Sessions, and Paul McGann. After graduating he worked with Deborah Warner in her Kick Theatre production of ‘Woyczek’, and touring productions of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Trial’; he later worked in regional Rep. theatre [George in Anthony Clarke’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ at Birmingham Rep., Melchior in Tom Stoppard’s ‘On the Razzle’ at Leeds Playhouse, Kelly in Daniel Mornin’s ‘Short of Mutiny’, and in ‘Pericles’ also at the Theatre Royal Stratford East London. Between 1984 and 1988 he worked at the Royal National Theatre. His first play was for Bill Bryden taking the leading role in Clifford Odet’s ‘Golden Boy’, for which he received both critical acclaim (Frank Rich, Milton Shulman, Sheridan Morley, Michael Billington) and a Most Promising Newcomer nomination. He continued at the RNT, first playing Vardaman in Peter Gill’s initial pr