Biog & Contact Details - June 2020
Michael John is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based composer, musician & sound designer.
Theatre Work:
Michael John has worked on over 80 theatrical productions, as of June 2020. He has collaborated on the making of nine Scotsman Fringe First award winners & has been four times nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound.
Credits include: NORA: A Doll's House (Young Vic/Citizens Theatre); Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of) (Lyceum Edinburgh/Tron Theatre/UK Tour); Jimmy's Hall (Abbey Theatre); The Duchess (of Malfi), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Lyceum Edinburgh); Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest & The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); I Can Go Anywhere, Crocodile Fever, Ulster American, What Girls Are Made Of, Gut, How To Disappear, Grain In The Blood (Traverse/Tron); Tay Bridge, August: Osage County, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil, The BFG & Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); The Gorbals Vampire, Trainspotting, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside & Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Light Boxes, Letters Home & The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); Pride & Prejudice, God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre Glasgow); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Interference (Pepperdine Scotland); The Red Shed (Mark Thomas/Lakin McCarthy); JRR Tolkien's Leaf By Niggle (Puppet State Theatre/Red Bridge); A Gamblers Guide to Dying (Gary McNair/Show & Tell).
Screen Work:
Credits include: Where You're Meant To Be (dir. Paul Fegan), Pitching Up (dir. Maurice O'Brien, Guardian Documentaries), Hey! Ronnie Regan (dir. Maurice O'Brien), On The Hemline (dir. Oonagh Kearney), Spores (dir. Frances & Richard Poet).
Music Work:
Michael John has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat, and has played on albums by Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock, Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Niall Connolly, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy and Jo Mango, amongst others.
Theatre Work:
Michael John has worked on over 80 theatrical productions, as of June 2020. He has collaborated on the making of nine Scotsman Fringe First award winners & has been four times nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound.
Credits include: NORA: A Doll's House (Young Vic/Citizens Theatre); Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of) (Lyceum Edinburgh/Tron Theatre/UK Tour); Jimmy's Hall (Abbey Theatre); The Duchess (of Malfi), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Lyceum Edinburgh); Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, Blabbermouth, The Tin Forest & The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (National Theatre of Scotland); I Can Go Anywhere, Crocodile Fever, Ulster American, What Girls Are Made Of, Gut, How To Disappear, Grain In The Blood (Traverse/Tron); Tay Bridge, August: Osage County, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil, The BFG & Steel Magnolias (Dundee Rep); The Gorbals Vampire, Trainspotting, Rapunzel, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside & Sports Day (Citizens Theatre); Light Boxes, Letters Home & The Authorised Kate Bane (Grid Iron); Pride & Prejudice, God of Carnage, The Lonesome West, Under Milk Wood (Tron Theatre Glasgow); Heads Up (Kieran Hurley/Show & Tell); The Interference (Pepperdine Scotland); The Red Shed (Mark Thomas/Lakin McCarthy); JRR Tolkien's Leaf By Niggle (Puppet State Theatre/Red Bridge); A Gamblers Guide to Dying (Gary McNair/Show & Tell).
Screen Work:
Credits include: Where You're Meant To Be (dir. Paul Fegan), Pitching Up (dir. Maurice O'Brien, Guardian Documentaries), Hey! Ronnie Regan (dir. Maurice O'Brien), On The Hemline (dir. Oonagh Kearney), Spores (dir. Frances & Richard Poet).
Music Work:
Michael John has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat, and has played on albums by Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock, Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Niall Connolly, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy and Jo Mango, amongst others.
If you are interested in learning more about any aspect of Michael John's work, please email: info@michaeljohnmccarthy.com
Michael John is represented by Davina Shah at TEAM Artists: davina@team-artists.co.uk
Michael John is represented by Davina Shah at TEAM Artists: davina@team-artists.co.uk
