Therese Workman is a Brooklyn-based musician, originally from Maine, born to Jamaican and British nurses.
She’s collaborated with artists across genres, including the soul-folk band Ramblin' Red, hip hop producer Alias (Anticon Collective), rapper Sontiago, and Afri-Classical-Futurist violinist/composer Mazz Swift. She's scored several short films, including Shirley Bruno's "The Things I See," winner of Best Narrative Short award at the Toronto Film Festival's Caribbean Tales showcase, and short educational films funded by the Ford Foundation.
Workman's primary music project, Oh My Goodness, began as her solo MySpace endeavor — eventually joining with Tyler Wood (fellow Maine native and Harvard College classmate) to transform Oh My Goodness into the duo it is today.
Oh My Goodness released their eponymous debut EP in 2013 to critical acclaim, earning The Deli NYC Magazine Artist of the Month and selected as Dispatch Magazine's Album of the Year by Alex Luke, former EVP of A&R for EMI North America. Oh My Goodness’s music has been remixed by international composers, producers, and performers, including: Alias, Anna Meredith, Andrew Bergmann, Eliot Krimsky (Glass Ghost/Here We Go Magic), Max Drummey (Lauryn Hill, Chester French), Adam Sachs, Christopher Tignor (Slow Six), Scrambler/Michael Gamble, and officerfishdumplings/Hatim Belyamani.
Workman has been awarded music residencies at Fljótstunga farmland in Iceland’s Westfjords, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, (recipient of the David Del Tredici Residency for a Composer, funded by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music) Ucross in Wyoming’s High Plains, and MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She continues to develop material and concepts inspired by isolation, other-worldly surroundings, semi-feral horses, haunted mansions, sleep deprivation, Korean tv, AND BEING UNCOMFORTABLE.
Workman’s most recent release is the Oh My Goodness album TIPPY. She continues to song-make slowly from her cave, sometimes acts in projects like The Adulterers (Sundance Film Festival Official Selection and Sundance Now Original Series), Fit Model (New York Film Festival Official Selection, Tribeca Through Her Lens) and designs soundscapes for projects like a short horror-comedy film about menstruation, which is so completely appropriate she can't even deal.