Sound Design for Theatre Portfolio
Matthew is a Sound Designer and Sound Artist working across theatre, music, installation, podcast and film. His diverse skills in recording and designing original sound content, experience in collaborating with composers, operators and performers and designing show playback and loudspeaker systems make for a wholistic sound design practice. Matthew also works as an Associate Sound Designer for fellow sound designers and composers.
Our Friends In The North
Sound Designer
Written by Peter Flannery and Jack McNamara | Directed by Jack McNamara
Produced by Live Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal and Eastlake Productions
Focusing on a pivotal chapter of the original story, the production is funny, tender and fiercely political, capturing both intimate personal journeys and sweeping national shifts.
The Snow Queen
Sound Designer
Written by Laura Lindow | Directed by Natalie Ibu
Produced by Northern Stage
In a town called Stifle lives a girl named Gerda. She is the only child in Stifle – until Kai arrives.
Isabelle
Sound Designer
Written by Marc Graham | Directed by Paul Smith
Produced by Middle Child
Isabelle is a thrilling, dark comedy, family drama that asks urgent questions about the legacy we leave behind for our children.
When the cracks begin to show, is it too late to do anything at all?
The Waves
Sound Designer & Composer
Written by Flora Wilson Brown | Directed by Júlia Levai
Produced by Jermyn Street Theatre
The Reviews Hub ★★★★★ Southwark News ★★★★★
The Guardian ★★★★ Theatre and Tonic ★★★★ The Stage ★★★★
West End Best Friend ★★★★ Broadway World ★★★★
"Matthew Tuckey’s sound design and music are liminal: a crash of waves is faintly audible. There’s a hubbub as if sieved through a monastery fifty miles away." - FringeReview
"Sound design by Matthew Tuckey further enriches the atmosphere... creating a space that feels at once suspended and intimately real.
...Life continues, as the waves do—restless, rhythmic, and unceasing, whether in stillness or in surge." - Theatre and Tonic
"The Waves seems to encompass all of life... The sound of waves bookends the narrative as a metaphorical representation of time passing and the inevitability of life’s passage... a delight from start to finish.” - The Reviews Hub
PUNCH - UK Tour
Associate Sound Designer
Sound Design & Composition by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Directed by Adam Penford
Olivier Award Winner for Best New Play 2026
The Times ★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ WhatsOnStage ★★★★★
The Telegraph ★★★★★ The Stage ★★★★ Broadway World ★★★★★ Theatre and Tonic ★★★★★
"Punch is back - and its as compelling as ever" - British Theatre Guide
Zog - UK Tour
Co-Sound Design with Mark Melville
Produced by Freckle
Directed by Ryan McBryde
A Seat at the Table - R&D 2026
Sound Designer
Directed by Jonluke McKie
Produced by Mustard Stories
Commissioned by NoMoreNowt
Beauty and the Beast - the rock n roll panto
Sound Designer
Written by Vikki Stone | Directed by Jake Smith
Produced by New Wolsey Theatre
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The Koala Who Could - UK Tour
Associate Sound Designer
Sound Design by Ella Wahlström
Adapted and Directed by Emma Earle
Dogs on the Metro
Sound Designer
Written by Emilie Robson | Directed by Maria Crocker
Produced by Live Theatre
"Matthew Tuckey's sound design layers in the rattle of tracks, distant platform announcements, and the low hum of nostalgia to powerful effect...it’s a story about growing up, looking back, and the strange and ugly beauty of friendships that never quite turn into anything else" - Theatre and Tonic ★★★★★
"Matthew Tuckey’s sound design is particularly entrancing and works electrically with the script to enhance sinister and tense moments. The crash of the metro carriage crescendoing with Balfour’s anger and upset, is an especially tactful way of exploring the ambiguity, anxiety, and self-doubt Jen experiences." - The Spy in the Stalls ★★★★★
"The nearer they get to voicing the truth, the more Matthew Tuckey’s soundtrack rumbles...and the familiar yellow fittings and blue-grey upholstery of the subway set by Amy Watts seem to shake with the clatter of an incoming train." - The Guardian ★★★★
Northern Arts Review ★★★★★ The Reviews Hub ★★★★
Macbeth - English Touring Theatre at the Lyric Hammersmith, 2025
Associate Sound Designer
Sound Design & Composition by Tingying Dong
Directed by Richard Twyman
The Stage ★★★★ Broadway World ★★★★★ The Times ★★★★
Champion
Sound Designer
Written by Ishy Din | Directed by Jack McNamara
Produced by Live Theatre
Saint Maud
Sound Designer
Based on the film written & directed by Rose Glass
Adapted for the stage by Jessica Andrews and Jack McNamara
With music by Gazelle Twin
"Extraordinary performance...desire, despair and 'godgasms' ...compelling adaptation." - The Guardian ★★★★
"Terrific performances and a winning creative team – Gazelle Twin, music; Matthew Tuckey, sound...contribute to an unforgettable spectacle... with a soundscape blending the horror genre’s pseudo religious playbook with all manner of unsettling thumps and thrums." - Cultured North East
"Full of flair – arresting and accomplished...alongside atmospheric sound design by Matthew Tuckey...and music by Gazelle Twin...Stylish adaptation of the cult horror film" - The Stage ★★★
Love It If We Beat Them - remount and tour 2024
Sound Designer
Written by Rob Ward | Directed by Bex Bowsher
Produced by Emmerson and Ward Productions in association with Live Theatre
'A smartly written drama about football, family and politics, with strong performances and stunning design' - The Stage ★★★★
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë - National Theatre transfer to Northern Stage
Associate Sound Designer (transfer)
Sound Design and Additional Music by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Directed by Natalie Ibu
The Bounds
Sound Designer
Written by Stewart Pringle | Directed by Jack McNamara
A Live Theatre and Royal Court co-production
"The impact of Jack McNamara's production is as much down to Matthew Tuckey's terrifying sound design... as it is to the captivating elliptical writing." - WhatsOnStage ★★★★
"Twisty, clever delight... A lush soundscape by Matthew Tuckey provides a backdrop to Verity Quinn’s set (strikingly lit by Drummond Orr), which erupts from the splintered stage” - The Stage ★★★★
"The gear shift from virtual comedy to something approaching folk horror is elegantly handled by Jack McNamara's production, abetted by some eerie ambient sound design from Matthew Tuckey that gives the long cold night an unsettling 'alive' quality." - Time Out
You Heard Me - Luca Rutherford
Associate Sound Designer
Sound Design and Composition by Melanie Wilson
Directed by Maria Crocker
The Queen of the North - R&D
Sound Designer
Written and performed by Tommy | Directed by Scott Le Crass
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by ARC Stockton & Teesside Archives
Colliery Boys R&D
Sound Designer
Written and Performed by Harry Rundle | Directed by Andy Room
R&D supported by and shared at Laurels, Whitley Bay
Festen
Sound Designer
Written by David Eldridge | Directed by Ian Wooldridge
Produced by the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
Performed by BA Acting students in the Webber Douglas Studio Theatre, March 2024.
World's Apart
Sound Designer
Written by Elijah Young | Directed by Poppy Crawshaw
Love It If We Beat Them
Sound Designer
Written by Rob Ward | Directed by Bex Bowsher
Produced by Live Theatre in association with Emmerson and Ward Productions
'A smartly written drama about football, family and politics, with strong performances and stunning design' - The Stage ★★★★
Josey, The Indignant Daughter - the digital musical R&D
Sound Designer
A new digital musical written by Katie Doherty | Directed by Joe Hufton
Additional sound design, mixing and mastering by Andrew Cadie
Produced by November Club on commission from The Space
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Sound Designer
Written by Laura Lindow | Directed by Maria Crocker | Music by Katie Doherty
Produced by Northern Stage and tiny dragon productions
Repeat Signal
Sound Designer
A site-specific play by Tatty Hennessy | Directed by Joe Hufton
Produced by Lizzie Vogler for November Club
Lost, Found and Told - New Audio Tales for Northumberland.
Sound Designer
Writer - Fiona Ellis | Composer - Katie Doherty | Director - Cinzia Hardy
Produced by November Club
Lost, Found and Told is inspired by traditional fairy tales and draws on the rich heritage and landscape of Northumberland. Originally conceived as a live performance, Covid-19 restrictions has transformed it into an audio production. For more information, please visit the November Club website here.
'Sound Designer' describes an array of my responsibilities on this production, including: recording, editing, and mixing and mastering the dialogue, sound effects, music and ambiences. A large portion of the musical content was recorded by the Composer, Katie Doherty, with vocals, Tambur, Drums and Bodhran recorded by me.
For a brief insight to my field recording process on this project, please see the series of mini-blog posts on here.
Wolf!
Sound Designer
Written and Devised by Kitchen Zoo | Directed by Brad McCormick | Music by Katie Doherty
Produced by Kitchen Zoo in association with Northern Stage
For under 5's and their grown ups. Initial run at Northern Stage Christmas 2019/20 followed by a UK tour.
joey
Sound Designer
Writer - sean burn | Director - Selma Dimitrijevic
New Wolsey Theatre Testing Ground Commission, produced by gobscure in association with Greyscale
Performed in English and BSL
Floorboards
Sound Designer
Writer - Steve Byron | Director - Katy Weir
Produced by ODDMANOUT, The Worriers, and Alphabetti Theatre
"an often subtle and always effective sound design by Matthew Tuckey." - British Theatre Guide
"a pleasingly unsettling and subtly done echo of Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart throughout." - The Stage
Trolley Boy
Sound Designer
Writer - David Raynor | Director - Ali Pritchard | Music by Roma Yagnik
Produced by Alphabetti Theatre
"a beautifully scored and impeccably timed soundtrack adds so much, almost subliminally, to the piece." - British Theatre Guide
