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Scott Porter Good on SellaBand
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Scott Porter Good on SellaBand
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 Rednosed-Reindeer." The rest, as they say, is his history.
Growing up in Upper Arlington, Ohio, Scott flourished in the school system's appreciation for teaching the arts and music to its students. From acting as 'October' and 'January' in CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE and REALLY ROSIE and 'the Narrator' in "Rapunzle" to 'Johnny' in "Johnny Tremain," Tremont Elementary School developed his interests. Jones Middle School, also in Upper Arlington, held yearly FALL PRODUCTIONs. Scott was fortunate to be the light and sound assistant director for TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE MUSIC MAN in 1997.
The following year, the classic WIZARD OF OZ gave Scott the chance to play the 'Tinman.' Upper Arlington High School, often regarded the "Best Public High School in Ohio" according to Columbus Monthly, prepared Scott academically and musically even further. Graduating Summa Cum Laude and in the top 15 percent of his graduating class, he left UAHS with a firm grasp of basic liberal arts: Advanced Placement American Politics and Government, world and American history, science and chemistry, algebra and pre-calculus mathematics, Spanish and some French and German.
Not only this, but UAHS, Jones Middle School and Tremont gave Scott twelve years of music classes, choirs, vocal performing and competing ensembles, and numerous art courses, photography, drawing, and more. UAHS musical credits include 'The Steward' in INTO THE WOODS, 'Motel' the Tailor in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and the principal role of 'Albert' in BYE BYE BIRDIE.
Moving on from Upper Arlington, he enrolled at The Ohio State University on a voice and academic scholarships. His declared entering major was Vocal Performance at the acclaimed 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 for him. Scott withdrew from Ohio State with the intention and need to experience life outside the academic world, having been well-prepared by the Upper Arlington School System.
Scott then went hard at work on recording and producing his DEMO CD, which he mailed to over 40 artist managment 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. "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 artist; 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 Porter Good 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 greatful 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 experience 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 'Dick' and 'Hal' in BIG RIVER, 'Angie' in GYPSY, and 'The Yellow Brick Road 3" in THE WIZ. Patchwork Players' children's theatre credits include 'Little Boy Blue' in the intern-written MOTHER GOOSE, 'Big Chicky' and 'Snake Eye" in ANNIE OAKLEY AND THE WILD WEST and the lead role of 'Simon' in PUSS 'N BOOTS.
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. 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, Phillip Rose.
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. It wasn't until January of 2008 when Scott would enroll in classes full-time at Berklee.
"I wasn't ready for school again in 2003. 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 nautious 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 Stanford so you can pay a shitload 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 gonna do what I wanted to do."
People would tell him that he needed to convert to Christianity or that he couldn't write songs or sing on pitch. He would like to thank those people. "They only made me stronger, work a little bit harder, made me that much wiser and smarter. Yep, you know the rest."
-CLA with BW and SW
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