Biography

Born and raised in the Green Mountains of Vermont, Erik graduated from a small town high school in 1990. He attended the Art Institute of Atlanta receiving a Music Business and Audio Engineering degree. Eventually he returned to New England, and started working for a CBS affiliate in Burlington. Networking, hard work and a fair amount of serendipity have found Erik working as a Videographer/Editor. Directing local commercials, political and news promotions. He then branched out into the independent filmmaking field and has worked on a numbers of "shorts" and "webisodes" including groundbreaking Internet Star Trek Fan Film long before there was video streaming or YouTube. In 2006, he was brought aboard as Director of Photography on "Late Night Saturday" airing in Vermont and Southern Quebec. He then moved to Los Angeles in 2008, Erik has worked as everything from PA and Grip to DP and Director. In 2012 he began working for the 3rd time with Arnold Shapiro Productions on the latest incarnation of the classic documentary Scared Straight. For this show, which went 12 seasons, Erik branched out into Field Production Coordinator, Production Manager and Associate Producer. After getting out of Reality TV production he has turned his focus back to his Sound Mixing roots. Now working actively as a Location Sound Recordist and Post Production Sound Mixer and Sound Editor and Video editing feature films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Erik Goodrich