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Brent Alan Goodrich is the Executive and Artistic Director of The Octavian Foundation for the Arts, also known as The New Octavians. A resident of Hammond, Brent is a voice, piano, and acting teacher as well as a stage director for the Foundation. He also serves as the director for the Octavians’ musical theatre competition team.

Brent is an alumnus of Southeastern Louisiana University, where he earned the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Vocal Performance.  During his graduate studies at Southeastern, Brent taught the class MUS101, was a featured soloist in Bach’s Aus der Tiefen rufe ich and Handel’s Messiah, and performed Olin Blitch’s solo from Floyd’s Susannah. 

Brent has staged and music directed numerous musicals and operatic productions, including:  Les Misérables, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Christoph Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Singin’ in the Rain, Jekyll and Hyde, and Mozart’s The Impresario.

Brent’s notable stage performances include: The Mikado (Pooh-Bah), Gianni Schicchi, Sweeney Todd (Judge Turpin), Pirates of Penzance (Major General), Hänsel und Gretel (Father), The Rocky Horror Show (Frank-N-Furter), and the world premiere of Gwyneth Walker’s Evangeline (Father Felician).

Brent has worked and performed with McNeese State University’s Opera and Music Theatre Company, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, The Lake Charles Civic Ballet, 30 by Ninety Regional Theatre, and Playmakers Regional Theatre.

Brent’s students have won several singing and theatre competitions, including: National Association of Teachers in Singing (National Finalists), The Donald Wood New Orleans Opera Vocal Competition, and iTheatrics’ Junior Theatre Festival (Overall Outstanding Production, Overall Outstanding Performer, Best in Dance, Best in Ensemble, and Most Outstanding Male Performer, and Most Outstanding Female Performer).

Brent looks forward to many more years of teaching music and theatre on the Northshore with the copious amount of talent on this side of the lake.