Johnny Rainer Allan is an EMMY and BAFTA nominated director.

He trained as a David Lean Scholar at the NFTS where his graduation film Dead Birds won three RTS awards, The Gold Audience Award at Fantasia, was nominated for The Iris Prize for best LGBQT+ filmmaking and was selected by The Academy as a finalist for the Student Academy Awards.

On graduating Johnny directed “Pylon” an acclaimed feature length episode of Mammoth’s Screen hit tv show Endeavour. He then became lead director for Worldwide Netflix and Nielsen Number 1 series The Irregulars written by Oscar Nominee Tom Bidwell, became a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and received a BAFTA Scotland nomination for Best Fiction Director. He was then hired by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher ground productions and Netflix to direct on Irish set blackly comic thriller Bodkin.

He is currently working with Laura Deeley (Ozark) adapting Sleep Donation from the novel by Pullitzer Prize nominated author Karen Russell, co-writing High Windows with Jojo Iwakuma for FX, The Vanishers for Carnival Films and co-writing pharmaceutical thriller Numb with Tom Moran for 7 Stories. He has just lead directed and exec produced three seasons of Number 1 Amazon Prime show The Devil’s Hour, for which Allan was again nominated by BAFTA in the Best Fiction Director category as well for an International EMMY for Best Drama.

His work features emotive visuals, dark humour and monsters of both the fantastical and real kind. Johnny is represented by Roxana Adle at Lark Management (UK) and Matt Rosen and Sam Warren at Untitled (US).