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Martin O'Donnell, a Republican composer and audio director best known for his work on Bungie's Halo series, is his party's 2026 nominee for Nevada's 3rd congressional district against Democratic incumbent Susie Lee.
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Martin O'Donnell was born on May 1, 1955. His father made films and his mother taught piano, and he took piano lessons as a child and wanted to start a rock band in junior high school.
He studied classical music and composition at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and received a Master of Music degree in composition with honors from the University of Southern California in the early 1980s.
After completing his degree he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a grip in the film and television business.
O'Donnell began composing for film and commercials with his partner Michael Salvatori, and the two founded the Chicago production company TotalAudio, which wrote jingles for Mr. Clean and Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
He moved into video game work when TotalAudio did the sound design for the 1997 title Riven, and the company then produced music for Bungie's Myth series.
O'Donnell joined Bungie in 1999, ten days before the studio was bought by Microsoft, and served as audio director for all of its projects until he was fired in April 2014.
At Bungie, O'Donnell and Salvatori scored the Halo series, including Halo 3 (2007), Halo 3: ODST (2009) and Halo: Reach (2010), and his final work there was the music for the 2014 game Destiny. The Halo 2 soundtrack became the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time in the United States.
After his dismissal he successfully sued Bungie for unpaid wages and stock ownership. In 2015 he founded the studio Highwire Games and composed the score for its virtual reality game Golem, released in 2019.
Martin O'Donnell is the Republican nominee for Nevada's 3rd congressional district, which comprises the western Las Vegas suburbs, including Spring Valley, Summerlin South and Sandy Valley.
He ran for the seat in 2024, and in the 2026 Republican primary he won 42.3% of the vote, ahead of asset development manager Tera Anderson, former U.S. ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter and neurosurgeon Aury Nagy.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, he faces Democratic incumbent Susie Lee, who was re-elected with 51.4% of the vote in 2024.
