Our Story
About O’Claddagh Productions:
O’Claddagh Productions is a full-service production company located in Los Angeles, CA. With a commitment to delivering world-class storytelling, O’Claddagh Productions specializes in capturing the emotion and intensity of the exciting world of sports. The company additionally produces high-quality content across several other genres and mediums, including telecasts, documentaries, television series, and children's programs.
O’Claddagh Productions was founded in 2013 by Emmy-winning Producer and Editor Michael Oliver. The production company serves as a loving tribute to Oliver’s own Irish heritage, maintaining both a professional and creative commitment to the three core pillars of the traditional Claddagh ring: friendship, love, and loyalty. Such values remain at the forefront of each and every O’Claddagh Productions project, just one of the many reasons the company has been trusted by such high-profile collaborators as FX, Fox Sports, and HBO.
About Michael Oliver:
Michael Oliver is an Emmy-winning Producer and Editor with over 15 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Oliver has won five Sports Emmys for his work on BCS, HBO 24/7, Jack Jablonski Feature, Finding Rico Harris, and The 2022 Winter Olympics. He is currently a proud member of the editing team behind FX’s hit series Welcome to Wrexham, having joined the show in its second season.
Oliver began his career as a Field Producer for both Fox Sports and HBO Sports, before becoming a full-time editor in 2013. In just his first year on the job, Oliver was awarded a Sports Emmy for Best Long Form Editing for his work on Finding Rico Harris. He has since leveraged his love of sports into a wide variety of editing and producing roles on such programs as Fox Sports Live and We Are LAFC.
A Minnesota native and proud graduate of St. Cloud State University, Oliver maintains a particular passion for the sport of hockey. During his undergraduate career, he oversaw the school’s Division I hockey broadcast, going toe-to-toe with Fox Sports North. Oliver additionally worked as a runner at Fox Sports for the Minnesota Vikings broadcasts each weekend, and landed a job with the company in March of 2005. Oliver currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two kids.
Entertainment Partners:
FOX Sports, FS1, FX, ESPN, HBO, NBC Sports, Golf Channel, TVG, A&E, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Oxygen, Redbull, Gatorade, Twitch, Amazon, Turn Left Productions, DLP Media Group, Latitude Films, PIV , McMenamin & McMenamin and Boardwalk Pictures.
“That’s what storyteller’s do. We restore order with imagination.
We instill hope again and again and again” - Walt Disney.