Michael John McCarthy is a musician, sound designer & composer for stage & screen.
His band Album Club released their debut LP on Last Night From Glasgow in May 2022. It reached #6 in the UK Vinyl Albums chart, & #2 in the Scottish Albums chart, spending 6 weeks in the Top 100.
He has worked on over 80 theatrical productions, including ten Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First award winners, most recently The Last Return by Druid Theatre Company. He is also the musical supervisor & co-sound designer on Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
He is the creator & composer of The Dream Frequencies, an audio theatre piece produced by the Traverse Theatre. He is also the lead artist on Turntable, a participatory arts & storytelling project, produced by Red Bridge. He is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep Theatre, & Visible Fictions.
Work for screen includes the documentaries Where You're Meant To Be and Pitching Up.
His band Album Club released their debut LP on Last Night From Glasgow in May 2022. It reached #6 in the UK Vinyl Albums chart, & #2 in the Scottish Albums chart, spending 6 weeks in the Top 100.
He has worked on over 80 theatrical productions, including ten Scotsman Edinburgh Fringe First award winners, most recently The Last Return by Druid Theatre Company. He is also the musical supervisor & co-sound designer on Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
He is the creator & composer of The Dream Frequencies, an audio theatre piece produced by the Traverse Theatre. He is also the lead artist on Turntable, a participatory arts & storytelling project, produced by Red Bridge. He is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep Theatre, & Visible Fictions.
Work for screen includes the documentaries Where You're Meant To Be and Pitching Up.
Stage Work Sampler
To find out more about Michael John's theatre work, you can read his April 2021 interview in The Stage.
Michael John is represented by Davina Shah at TEAM: davina@team-artists.co.uk
