Biog & Contact Details - February 2021
Michael John McCarthy is a Cork-born, Glasgow-based musician, sound designer & composer for stage & screen.
Michael John has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat, and has played on albums by Emma Pollock, Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy, and Niall Connolly amongst others. He has worked on over 80 theatrical productions and has collaborated on the making of nine Scotsman Fringe First award winners. He has been four times nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound. Work for screen includes the documentaries Where You're Meant To Be, Pitching Up, & Hey! Ronnie Regan. He is the creator & performer of Turntable, produced by Red Bridge, and his most recent album release is Sámh, currently available on Bandcamp. His new band Album Club are due to release their debut LP on Last Night From Glasgow in 2022.
Theatre 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).
Michael John has toured internationally with Zoey Van Goey, Lord Cut-Glass and Aidan Moffat, and has played on albums by Emma Pollock, Alasdair Roberts, RM Hubbert, Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy, and Niall Connolly amongst others. He has worked on over 80 theatrical productions and has collaborated on the making of nine Scotsman Fringe First award winners. He has been four times nominated for the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland in the category Best Use of Music & Sound. Work for screen includes the documentaries Where You're Meant To Be, Pitching Up, & Hey! Ronnie Regan. He is the creator & performer of Turntable, produced by Red Bridge, and his most recent album release is Sámh, currently available on Bandcamp. His new band Album Club are due to release their debut LP on Last Night From Glasgow in 2022.
Theatre 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).
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
