Painted People is the company of
Philip S. Goodman,
writer, director, actor working in
film, video, and theater.
                            A place for plays, stories, songs, ideas, and many good things to eat and drink.

A lot of work has been done on the show since then,  scenes rewritten,  music rearranged, and  several songs put in or taken out.  A synopsis,  history of development, and songs from the show can be found at  http://agoodmanthemusical.com.

A New Play  On May 24, 2010 Philip S. Goodman's new play, IS THE VIGORISH ENOUGH?  was shown in its first staged reading at The Actors Studio Playwright's and Directors Unit in New  York.  

The play is about a critical juncture in the life of a young New York immigrant street peddler who skips town at 20 and spends the next twenty up-and-down years of the early 1900s hustling in the glitzy and tawdry world of carnival road shows in the rural American south. On his honeymoon he gets a concession at a carnival he once knew well, risks his life in a gamble for high stakes, gets involved in a murder, and must decide the course and shape of his life forever. The play is offbeat Americana, evoking the color and character of an exraordinary world -- funny, surprising, anddramatically touching.

Featured in the cast at the Actors Studio reading were Kevin Stapleton, Antoinette LaVecchia, Sayra Player, Con Horgan, Adam Jonas Segaller, Nelson Avidon, Gary Swanson, and Jeremy Johnson. Jo Bellomo directed.

TV and Video Production

The video short, MORNING DOG, shot by Philip Goodman in Riverside      
Park and Central Park, is an entertaining 5-minute romp with the talented, expressive, energetic dogs of the Big Apple.

Painted People has produced  shorts and television spots for Jacoby & Meyers  and  the upstate law firm, Finkelstein & Partners , and many commercials about victims of medical problems with Vioxx, Zyprexa, Crestor,and other drugs.  For a number of years Painted People produced TV ads, sales presentations, video programs, and circulation packages for Ziff-Davis Publishing's PC Magazine, Computer Life, Computer Shopper, and MacUser.

Radio Days.
For seven years, Philip S. Goodman wrote, directed and acted with Stage Shadows,  producing  radio plays live at  the Museum of TV and Radio in New York City. His acting roles included  French resistance leader, Jean Moulin, in several Anthony Pennino radio plays set in World War II France,  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. Father Roy, a Viet Nam vet, was arrested and tortured during five years of missionary work in Bolivia. His mysterious disappearance was front page news when he went to El Salvador with a TV documentary crew to investigate the rape and slaughter of three American churchwomen.

Goodman is also the author of The Brigands and Miss Stone, about a sensational kidnapping in Macedonia in 1901, and of the screenplay, Road Kill, written with Yuichi Hibi, which follows three young Vietnamese-American gangsters on a reckless, life-changing road trip from California to Corpus Christi, Texas. 
                                                    
Past Credits
 PSG directed the theatrical feature film, We Shall Return, with Cesar Romero, and has written many TV plays, among them shows for Danger (Caroll Baker, Jack Lord), Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes), Hawk (Burt Reynolds), and 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).

The show on Danger (CBS) had an interesting history. The story was also bought for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, adapted for Caroll Lynley and Vince Edwards, and directed by none other than Robert Altman. You can see it on Hulu. Just click here on The Young One.

Goodman directed the groundbreaking laserdisc mystery, Murder, Anyone? (Best Director, Best Video Program, 1983 -- Video Review ), and dozens of documentary films, including  Adventures in the China Trade, Pacific Crossroads, and the PBS special, Japan Reaches for the 21st Century, which Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News called "a gem." 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.

The musical score for the movieWe Shall Return,was  composed by jazz notable Ed Summerlin, and features an outstanding group: Hank Jones, piano; Jim Hall, guitar; Hal McCusick, sax and flute; Ron Carter, bass; Bobby Rosengarden, drums; Willy Rodriguez, conga and bongos. A VCR cassette of the feature film is available from Movies, Unlimited .  

For more background and biography of PSG,  click here. 

 The MysteryDisc, Murder, Anyone?  is an interactive live-action video game done in entertaining dramatic scenes.  The oustanding 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, and chose Philip S. Goodman Best Director.