Jack McGuire is a songwriter, composer, and and sound designer who produces music under the names Wet Hands, Ranch Hands, and FCTRYDRM. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music (2018). Coming to New York from Ohio, his approach to music is slow and pastoral; incorporating field recordings that are abstracted into rhythmic textures, resamples of acoustic instruments, and most recently soft and observational folk songs. As avid collaborator, Jack has worked on many different interdisciplinary projects ranging from live scoring new dance pieces, film score, and immersive theatre. His work has been performed at Lincoln Center, Guggenheim Works and Process, National Sawdust, Edinburgh Fringe (Scotland), Adelaide Fringe (Australia), SIlbersalz Festival (Germany),Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), Abrons Art Center, Arlene’s Grocery, ART/New York, BRIC Brooklyn and other small venues and bars throughout the city.

He has worked on many projects with the Dutch Kills Theater Company, including Solitary (Edinburgh Fringe), Selkie (Wild Project), Temping (Edinburgh Fringe/Adelaide Fringe), and In Corpo (Theater Row), Exquisite Drones (The Tank). He is also the resident composer and musician for Broken Box Mime Company, and has been performing with them since 2020. These theatrical collaborations have led him to working with Deaf/Non-hearing artists, puppeteers, and mimes. He has scored two short films with high school friend and filmmaker, Gregory Elek, The Best Days of Our Lives (2021) and Beasts of Toil (2024).