Adam P McCready is a composer, sound designer, musician and sound recordist. Performing under the name Poetical Machines he has created sound designs and music scores for theatre and dance productions, films, radio/audio dramas and podcast series. He has also devised several multi-speaker, interactive sound installations for galleries and museums.

Audio Drama/Podcasts: The Fishermen (New Perspectives, Naked Productions), From Sad Shires (Little Pixie Productions), PlacePrints (New Perspectives), Our Youth Grows in a Wasteland (Potboiler Theatre).

Film: The Cherry Coloured Coat (Filament), The Ashes (Triskelle Pictures), The Grandest of Stages (Next Door Dance)

Sound Design and Composition credits (Theatre): In excess of a hundred productions for regional theatres across the UK and commercial West End and UK Touring productions. Producers include Nottingham Playhouse, Derby Theatre, Curve Leicester, Hull Truck, HOME Manchester, Mercury Theatre Colchester, York Theatre Royal, Pilot Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, Greenwich Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Ovalhouse London, Tristan Bates Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, New London Theatre, Teatro Nazionale Milan, NotNow Collective, Filament Projects, Potboiler Theatre, Little Pixie Productions, Bristol Old Vic, CAST Doncaster, New Perspectives, Theatre by the Lake Keswick, Northampton Royal Theatre, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Derby Playhouse, Qdos, First Entertainments, Stage Entertainment, Leicester Haymarket, Salisbury Playhouse, Cheltenham Everyman, Lakeside Nottingham, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, Oldham Coliseum, Really Useful Group, Bill Kenwright Ltd.