SCOTT PORTER GOOD
BIOGRAPHY
CONTACT: 917.566.6184 sgood@berklee.net

Scott Porter Good is a singer, songwriter, actor, model, dancer, djBreedHill, a private instructor, student at Berklee College of Music, and more.  Above all, he is a friend, a son, a cousin, nephew, and uncle.

Scott was born in Columbus, Ohio as an only child.  By the time he was four, he had declared to his parents that he "wanted to be a singer."  In pre-school, he made his stage debut as "Rudolph" in "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer."  The rest, as they say, is his history.

Tremont Elementary School in Upper Arlington, Ohio gave him a further grounding of appreciation and enjoyment of stage theater.  Plays included RAPUNZEL (Narrator) and JOHNNY TREMAIN (Johnny).  Jones Middle School produced a compilation of plays by William Shakespeare; Scott acted in MACBETH (Witch) and as Shakespeare himself in one of the poet’s autobiographical musings.  Other Jones shows included TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MUSIC MAN (Light and Sound Assistant) and WIZARD OF OZ (Tinman).  

In 1995, Scott was picked from 300 applicants to be an Anchor and Reporter for CBS affiliate WBNS 10TV’s Kids News Network.  Broadcasting across central Ohio, "KNN" provided an outstanding opportunity for learning.  Scott worked for the Saturday-morning show for five years, and in a way, "grew up" on television.

He graduated Summa Cum Laude in the top 15 percent of his graduating class and was twice elected to The National Honor Society at Upper Arlington High School, the "Best Public High School in Ohio" (Columbus Monthly).  UAHS musicals included OAKLAHOMA! (Slim), INTO THE WOODS (The Steward), INHERIT THE WIND (Bertram Cates), BYE BYE BIRDIE (Albert) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Motel).  He earned Superior Ratings twice at the State Solo and Ensemble Competitions.  The UA School System gave Scott 13 years of music classes, choirs, vocal performing and competing ensembles.

After auditions at Belmont University, Nashville, Butler University, Indianapolis and The Ohio State University, Columbus, Scott was offered voice and academic scholarships at all three. Electing to go to OSU, his declared entering major was Vocal Performance at the OSU School of Music.  However, after nearly a semester it was clear to Scott and his family that continuing a life in academia was not appropriate.  Scott withdrew from Ohio State with the intention and need to experience life beyond school and was offered the roll of ‘David Harold’ in the Warehouse Theatre Company’s ASSASSINS, which he accepted.

Scott then went hard at work on recording and producing his DEMO CD, which he mailed to over 40 artist management agencies in New York City, Los Angeles, Florida, Nashville, and San Francisco.  A couple grabbed the bait; one included Shep Pamplin in New York City.  Scott and Mr. Pamplin stayed in touch for that year after the agent wrote Scott a brief email reading something to the effect of, "Nice technical voice.  So when are you going to step out of Upper Arlington into the real world?"  Scott laughed upon reading this and says, "I'll never forget that moment.  It was what I needed to hear in a time of uncertainty in which I'd just left OSU and needed a direction.  I guess I was fairly certain I wanted to live in New York at some point but just needed to get out of Ohio.  I auditioned for Disneyland, looked at Belmont University, UC Santa Cruz, and Berklee College of Music, not to mention Indiana University and Belmont while I was in high school.  So when Shep responded to my talent package, I began to seriously consider New York."

Which leads us to more recent memory.  In an early March, after Scott left his job at a photography studio in Columbus, he packed a couple suitcases and his laptop and headed to The City.  "I was offered the role of ‘Jack’ in a production of INTO THE WOODS in Columbus but decided to just go for New York.  It was kind of romantic," Scott says. "I was pursuing my dream.  Albeit, I was depending heavily on my parents at the time financially.  But I had a drive and ambition to be able to help support myself.  I'd been working since I was eleven anyway, so I knew how to get a basic job.  What was exciting, though, was to be on my own in a completely different reality than Upper Arlington.  UA is not a place for artists; yes, the schools do respect the arts to a degree but as anywhere else in suburban America, if you do theatre you're automatically an outcast.  Sports were and are as important, if not sometimes more important than academics.  So to be in a city like New York where theatre and art and music and the things I love are are as highly regarded as sports, I felt home."

That summer, after recommendation from his mom, Scott acted in ten productions as an intern at The Weathervane Repertory Theatre in New Hampshire's White Mountain region.  After auditioning at Strawhats in New York and the New England Theatre Conference, The Weathervane's Guil Fisher took notice of Scott at both events.  "Wow.  What a nice, warm-hearted, loving, amazing person Guil is.  I'm sorry to say I've lost touch with him recently but I would like to tell him how grateful I am for opening the doors of The Weathervane to me.  That experience that summer was life changing.  I'd truly never felt more alive, more in love with what I was doing with my life.

"I was acting every day," he goes on.  "It'd be 'wake up at eight, get out of bed, drag a comb across my head, have some Special K Red Berries cereal or cereal bars, get in the car, drive to rehearsal or a real breakfast or a voice lesson.  We spent all day and all night practicing, learning tons of lines right and left, developing our performing skills, doing hip hop classes.  I was in heaven.  And the people I met?  They were the best people I'd met in a long time.  I laughed my ass off and didn't get any sleep talking to all of them.  But that was one of those experiences in which you wish you could go back, just for a day, just to do the same thing with the same people one more time."

Not only this, but Scott would gain eleven EMC Non-Equity, semi-professional acting credits to his resume.  These include BIG RIVER (Dick and Hal), GYPSY (Angie), and THE WIZ (Yellow Brick Road).  Patchwork Players' children's theatre credits include 'Little Boy Blue' in the intern-written ANNIE OAKLEY AND THE WILD WEST (Bick Chicky, Snake Eye), MOTHER GOOSE (Little Boy Blue), We Willy Winky), and the lead in PUSS 'N BOOTS (Simon).

Scott returned to Manhattan that fall.  "I can remember walking from my sublet on 47th between 9th and 10th towards Time Square and feeling so alive and free,” he says.  “I felt those same feelings when I visited San Francisco to travel and LA for the Best New Talent Awards.  But that was months before I even moved to New York.  There was a sense of insecurity about what to do next, since my internship had ended.  So I just put one foot in front of the other and continued to pursue what I loved most, music."

He lived in New York City for a year pursuing theatre, and landed the role of 'Charlie' in PURLIE produced by Cagle & Company with direction by Original Broadway Producer and Author of the musical, Philip Rose.   Other professional theatre credits include HAIRSPRAY, ROMEO AND JULIET and his second time singing and acting in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.

He was admitted to Berklee College of Music in 2003 and re-admitted in 2005 after deferring for two years.  He would continue deferring for two more years while returning to Ohio to see his family and friends.  Berklee, alongside Juilliard, is often regarded as the best school of music in the United States and recognized worldwide as the premier institution for contemporary music (jazz, R&B, pop, rock, soul, blues, hip hop, gospel, world, country, and on).  A “little sister to the music industry,” Berklee admits 30% of applicants after a competitive audition process, a fourth of which are from outside the U.S. In a world of hundreds of thousands of American Idol “wannabe’s,” Berklee’s four thousand students are, as the schools motto claims, “esse quam videri,” or “to be rather than to seem.”  It wasn't until January of 2008 when Scott would enroll in classes full-time.  

"I wasn't ready for school again in 2003,” he explains.  “Or 2006 for that matter.  It wasn't until sometime in 2007 when I started to get feelings of missing learning, of being around all peers and not a professional working environment in which I was the youngest person on staff.  To this day I still get nauseous thinking about having textbooks and college-prep tests shoved down my throat, as if those were the most important things in life.  The philosophy of, 'You have to get all A's and perfect 1600s so you can get into Harvard so you can pay a ridiculous sum of money just to be told again that grades and test scores are all that matters... well, I was just over it.  I was an adult, it was my life and I was going to do what I wanted."

Mac Worthington Gallerie displayed a drawing and photograph in-house and a photograph online in 2005.  The Gallerie accepted a newer drawing for display in 2007 and as of June 2008, continued to hold prints for sale.  These images and some of his other art will be posted for sale soon to scottportergood.com.  

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