Michael is the owner of Yellow Sound Lab, a recording facility that serves as the musical home of Sesame Street on PBS, on which Michael plays drums and percussion and is the music mixing engineer. He owns the record company, Yellow Sound Label, for which he has produced albums for such artists as Chita Rivera, Alan Cumming, Jose Llana, Telly Leung and cast recordings of Matilda, A strange Loop, Big Fish, First Date, The Visit, Murder Ballad, Heathers, Nevermore, John and Jen, Fly By Night, Tamar Of the River, Fugitive Songs, Next Thing You Know, The Burnt Part Boys, The Shaggs, See Rock City and Other Destinations, Herringbone featuring BD Wong and many more.
As a musician, Michael has played on many of the aforementioned recordings and is an accomplished performer. He serves as music director, drummer and guitarist for Chita Rivera and is the drummer and co-arranger for Alan Cumming. He appeared with Florence and The Machine on Letterman in 2011, and he was the drummer for Concord Records Jazz vocalist Spencer Day on his 2011 Vagabond Tour.
He was the drummer for the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close, the hit Broadway show Avenue Q and did the Broadway run and subsequent tour of Chita Rivera, The Dancer's Life.
In addition, he's appeared in performances with such diverse artists/composers as Keith Lockhart, Jerry Goldsmith, Jesus Lobos Cobos, Jack Elliot, Wynonna Judd, John Legend, Elvis Costello, Miche Dichter, Randy Brecker, Audra McDonald, Don Rickles, Christian McBride, Kristin Chenowethand Ernie Watts. Michael is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the American Federation of Musicians.
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Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain’t Too Proud. He has been a sub drummer on Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants-The Musical, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, and The Big Apple Circus. The next project he’s working on is The Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical.
Clayton has performed on various TV shows, including Good Morning America, The Colbert Report, The View, The Jimmy Fallon Show, The CBS Early Show, the Today Show, and the 2010 and 2019 TONY Awards at Radio City. He’s shared the stage with legends such as The Stylistics, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King and was in the Netflix DWYCK episode of Luke Cage with the Delfonics and the HBO version of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.
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