Michael John McCarthy is a composer, sound designer and theatre-maker, originally from West Cork, currently based in Glasgow.

He has worked on over 100 theatre productions including twelve Edinburgh Fringe Firsts. He is also the musical supervisor and co-sound designer on the Olivier Award winning Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) which continues to tour internationally. In recent years Michael John has worked with the Abbey Theatre, the BBC, Landmark Productions, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Young Vic, Druid Theatre Company, the Lyric Theatre Belfast, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, the Traverse Theatre and the Tron Theatre amongst others.  

NTS credits:

One Hundred Voices - Caring Scotland, Kidnapped, The Rocket Post, In Time O’ Strife, Dolls.

Other credits include:  

The Plough And The Stars, Jimmy’s Hall (Abbey Theatre); The Seagull, Two Sisters, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Glory On Earth, A Number, The Weir, Bondagers (Lyceum Edinburgh); The Duchess (of Malfi) (Trafalgar Theatre/Lyceum Edinburgh); Black Hole Sign (Tron Theatre/Traverse); The Fair Maid of the West (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Grand Old Opera House Hotel (Traverse Theatre/Dundee Rep); Castle Lennox (Lung Ha/Lyceum Edinburgh) What Girls Are Made Of (Raw Material); The Last Return (Druid Theatre Company); The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Royal Exchange Manchester); NORA: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/Citizens Theatre); I Can Go Anywhere, Crocodile Fever, Ulster American, How To Disappear (Traverse Theatre); Tay Bridge, August: Osage County, The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil and The BFG (Dundee Rep); Trainspotting, Into That Darkness, Fever Dream: Southside (Citizens Theatre).

His band Album Club released their debut LP in May 2022. It reached #6 in the UK Vinyl Albums chart, and #2 in the Scottish Albums chart, spending six weeks in the Top 100.