Painted People is the production company 
of Philip S. Goodman,
writer, director, actor in
film, video, and theatre
                        -- a place for plays, stories, songs, ideas, and  good things to eat and drink.

                         

Amas Musical Theater Co. presented staged  readings of the new version of A Good Man in New York City in November 2011. Below L to R: Raun Ruffin,   Chester Gregory, Tony Winner Nikki James, Anastacia McClesky, Joshua Henry, Jeremy Gumbs, Cheryl Alexander. Ken Robinson, Bob Stillman, John Jellison.

For a synopsis,  history of development, and music from  A GOOD MAN: click on: http://agoodmanthemusical.com.

New Play   Philip Goodman's new play, IS THE VIGORISH ENOUGH? is about  a  young New York immigrant peddler who flees the city in1905 for a hectic life with carnival road shows in  the rural American south -- among grifters and con men, fast women, freaks, roughnecks, and sharks "who'd steal the gold out of your teeth of you fell asleep with your mouth open." He flourishes. And falls too.

 His life reaches critical juncture on his honeymoon, when he ploys to get a foothold in a carnival he was once forced out of, risks all in a gamble for high stakes, is involved in a murder and a mugging, is warmed by an old flame, and must decide the course and shape of his life forever. The play is funny, surprising, touching,  and takes us into the sleazy carnival world of a hundred years ago that in many ways has become the fast, unsteady way of the world today.

In the cast at a reading at The Actors Strudio were Kevin Stapleton, Antoinette LaVecchia, Sayra Player, Con Horgan, Adam Jonas Segaller, Nelson Avidon, Gary Swanson, and Jeremy Johnson. 

TV and Video Production

The video short, MORNING DOG, shot by Philip Goodman in Riverside Park and Central Park is a swinging 5-minute romp with the talented, high-bouncing dogs of
 the Big Apple, cavorting  to the Wynton Marsalis  band playing King Oliver's Yes Indeed.

Painted People has made  hundreds of documentary and promotional films, shorts and dozens of  TV spots for Jacoby & Meyers  and Finkelstein & Partners , and  TV ads,  sales presentations, video programs, and circulation  packages for major publishers.

PBS and WNET-Channel 13 in New York  recently posted, on their website, several episodes of  the award-winning 1970  television series Our Vanishing Wilderness. Goodman worked on this beautiful, heartbreaking project in South Dakota and  Nevada locations. He wrote the scripts for  Of Broccoli and Pelicans and Celery and Seals, the opener, reviewed with high praise in the New York Times), The Prairie Killers, and Slow Death of the Desert Water. All the shows can be viewed by clicking here or on the title photo above.

Radio Days.
For seven years, Philip S. Goodman wrote, directed and acted with Stage Shadows, which produced radio plays  "live," at  the Museum of TV and Radio in New York City. His acting roles included  World  War II French resistance leader Jean Moulin  in several plays by Tony Pennino which featured Simon Jones as the angel, Gabriel.  Goodman also wrote and directed the dramas AMPAC 6.4, The Water,  and Wake for a Warlock.

Theatrical Feature Films.  
The  PSG screenplay, School of Assassins, is about the charismatic priest, Roy Bourgeois, who  spent much of his life fighting to close  the U.S. Army’s  School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Father Roy, ordained after service as a Naval Officer in Viet Nam, was arrested and tortured during five years of missionary work in Bolivia. His mysterious disappearance in El Salvador was front page news when he went there with a CBS documentary crew to investigate the rape and slaughter of three American churchwomen, one of them a colleague and personal friend.

Goodman is also the author of The Brigands and Miss Stone, about a famous kidnapping in Macedonia in 1901, and Road Kill, written with Yuichi Hibi,  about three young Vietnamese-American gangsters on a reckless, violent, and life-changing road trip from California to the Gulf coast of Texas.                                     

PSG directed the theatrical feature film, We Shall Return, starring Cesar Romero, a drama about activist Cuban patriots in Florida just after the Bay of Pigs debacle.

WE SHALL RETURN  is notable for its jazz musical score composed  by jazz liturgist Ed Summerlin. The track features  Hank Jones on piano, Jim Hall, guitar; Hal McCusick, sax and flute; Ron Carter, bass; Bobby Rosengarden, drums; Willy Rodriguez, conga and bongos.

Television and Video
Philip Goodman has written many TV shows, among them  Danger (Caroll Baker, Jack Lord), Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes), Hawk (Burt Reynolds),  and several plays in the Peabody Award-winning NBC series, Profiles In Courage (Andrew Johnson with Walter Mathau, John Peter Altgeld with Burgess Meredith, Grover Cleveland with Carroll O'Connor).

Murder in Season on Danger (CBS) had an interesting history. The story was also bought for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, adapted as The Young One for Carol Lynley and Vince Edwards, and directed by  Robert Altman. You can see it on Hulu. Just click here on The Young One.

Goodman directed the groundbreaking laserdisc mystery game, Murder, Anyone? (Best Director, Best Video Program, 1983 ), and wrote and directed dozens of documentary films, including programs in Our Vanishing Wilderness,  Adventures in the China Trade, Pacific Crossroads, and the PBS special, Japan Reaches for the 21st Century, called "a gem" in  the New York Daily News. Three of Hallmark Entertainment's "making-of" films were written by PSG. Over time Goodman has been involved in over 300 video and film productions. For more background and biography  click here. 

 The MysteryDisc, Murder, Anyone?  is an interactive video game played out in entertaining live-action "movie" scenes.  The impressive  cast includes Paul Gleason, Larry Pine, Kate McGregor Stewart, Lea Thompson, Christine Estabrook, Rex Robbins, John Heffernan, George Ede, and Ben Hammer.  Video Review selected Murder, Anyone? as  Best Video Program of 1983, and chose Philip S. Goodman Best Director. Fans have posted Murder, Anyone on You Tube.

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