Edward O'Mahony

Edward O'Mahony is an award winning composer for film and television and music producer based in Dublin. He grew up in Dún Laoghaire on Dublin's southside, where he started piano at five and guitar at seven. Classically trained from an early age, he went on to study Songwriting at BIMM Dublin, where a taste that ran from orchestral to hip-hop started finding a shape. That range, between formal discipline and instinctive production, is still what defines his work.

Before turning to screen, he fronted Jooce, a Dublin psych-rock band known for building immersive, cinematic soundscapes live. When the pandemic hit, he stepped back from the band and began developing Methodactor, a solo project fusing atmospheric production, hip-hop, and alternative pop. Alongside his own work, he has produced for other artists, including Cork alternative pop artist, Leah Rose and R'n'B artist, Orla Monelle.

His transition into screen composition felt like a natural extension of all of this. The same instinct for atmosphere and emotional texture that ran through his band and solo work translated directly into scoring. His first short, Wild Hunger (2021), marked the beginning of that path with a daring jazz drum score and was the start of an ongoing collaboration with director Conor McCormick that has since produced two of his most recognised scores.

Bunker Baby (2024) premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, screened at the Dublin International Film Festival where it received a Top 5 Audience Award, and went on to win Best Original Score at Terror in the Bay Film Festival. The score uses live cello arrangements glockenspiel and arpeggiated pianos to create a mysterious, anxious atmosphere surrounding the film. The soundtrack is available on all streaming services. For the Cure (2025), also directed by McCormick, took a different approach: an avant-garde score built around the tin whistle, drawing on traditional Irish music to tell a story about grief and old cures. It premiered at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh. 

He has worked across genre and with various directors most notably Alba Fernandez on the shorts Oisín (2022) and I haven't seen you in a long time, now (2022) which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh. In 2025 he scored Wannabes, a Dublin comedy pilot, with a loose, indie-sleaze disco sensibility that points to the range he's developing as a composer. And in 2026 he has completed work on the surreal short Bigfoot Lover (2026) Dir. Megan Murphy.

In 2025, Edward was selected by the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland to join a trade mission to Los Angeles, a competitive programme supported by Screen Ireland and Culture Ireland, bringing a small cohort of Irish composers to meet agents, music supervisors, and industry figures in the US. He currently serves on the SCGI Board of Directors.

Edward works closely with directors from early in development and is available for commissions across film, television, and documentary.

In 2025, Edward also released his debut alternative pop EP, A Fool's Errand under the name methodactor. The 7 track genre spanning EP about grief, anxiety and the life of an artist was accompanied by multiple music videos directed by O'Mahony along with a listening party and multiple shows around Ireland. He is currently finishing his debut album titled Uncertainly set for release in 2027.