Mr. Eric Porter holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Texas and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater  in San Francisco. He has performed professionally in regional theaters and Shakespeare Festivals across the country, including PCPA Theaterfest, St. Louis Rep. The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Cleveland PlayHouse, Monomoy Theater (Cape Cod), Players Theater Columbus, and Theater Arlington. He has also performed off Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theater, Playwrights Horizon, and the Manhattan Theater Club. He also had the privilege of being the standby for the Boy in Three Tall Women at The Vineyard Theater on Broadway. Mr. Porter has been seen locally at Different Stages, the Vortex, (where he won a B. Iden Payne award for outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama), Capital City Playhouse, the Public Domain, and most recently in Austin Shakespeare company’s Much Ado About Nothing playing Don Pedro . He has also worked as the assistant to the Sr. VP of Casting Feature Films at Paramount Studios in Hollywood where he worked on Cameron Crowe’s movie Elizabethtown with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.