Jennifer Goodridge

In 2010, prior to her independent producer career, Goodridge served as a Commercial Directors Representative under Siobhan McCafferty & Associates.[2] Goodridge went on to work at Bob Industries and began her career as a producer. While working at Bob Industries, Goodridge collaborated on many award winning commercials and music videos with directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris,[3] Davis Guggenheim, Bob Odenkirk, Jason Reitman, Miguel Arteta, Doug Pray, Trish Sie, among others.

In March 2015, Goodridge departed Bob Industries to launch her own production company, Beyond Ideas,[4] where she began to produce music videos for Beck, X Ambassadors, Tim Heidecker, Lindsey Stirling, PartyNextDoor, Father John Misty, She & Him, Melanie Martinez, Fitz and the Tantrums, Jade Bird, George Ezra, among others. She has produced commercials for Tommy Hilfiger, Burger King, Converse, Youtube Music featuring Camila Cabello[5] and Dua Lipa,[6] as well as the Twitch commercial campaign starring Eric Andre.[7]

At the helm of her production company Beyond Ideas, Goodridge has executive produced and produced a variety of content including narrative and documentaries.

She received recognition for her production of I'm Poppy, a surreal comedy on singer and YouTuber Poppy. I'm Poppy received critical acclaim when it premiered at The Sundance Film Festival 2018 and is now exclusively available upon YouTube Red.[8][9][10][11]

In 2019, Goodridge line-produced season one of The Disney Channel's "Shook", in association with the Duplass brothers's production company DBP Donut. "Shook" was Emmy nominated for "Outstanding Young Adult Program" at the 47th Daytime Emmy Awards 2020.[12][13]

Goodridge produced a documentary for Adidas on their first female skateboarder to go professional, Nora Vasconcellos, directed by Giovanni Reda.[14]

She also produced eight episodes of Stranger Things: Spotlight for Netflix.[15][16]

Goodridge went on to co-produce feature film The Argument, directed by Robert Schwartzman and starring Dan Fogler, Emma Bell, Danny Pudi, and Maggie Q, which was released September 4, 2020.[17]

She also produced Blake,[18] written and directed by Brendan Sexton III which premiered at the LA Shorts Film Festival and stars Perrey Reeves, Riley Keough and Brendan Sexton III.

Goodridge is currently developing BAD,[19] a feature film written and directed by long standing collaborator Nathalia Pizarro. This is the second collaboration Goodridge has produced for Pizarro after producing festival darling film Essere Amato.[20][21][22][23]

Simultaneously to her career as a producer, Goodridge has participated in acting, hosting, and is a musician.

Goodridge appeared in Michel Gondry's music video "Everlong" for the Foo Fighters, followed by a role as Sophia Coppola's sister in the Spike Jonze directed video for The Chemical Brothers' "Elektrobank".[24]

She became a permanent fixture on Jeremy Weiss and Aaron Farley's Killradio show Get The Fuck Up Radio after fans loved her guest performance as "Jentern" (Jennifer the intern).

In 2004 she joined the post hardcore band Your Enemies Friends as keyboardist and backup vocalist. Goodridge and bandmate Ronnie Washburn later formed shoegaze band Seaspin, putting out the EP Reverser in 2010 under Buddyhead Records.[25][26]

In 2015, Goodridge formed Sister Mystery. Together, they released a limited edition self-titled cassette as well as recorded a cover of The Smiths' "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" for A Dreaded Sunny Day – A Tribute to The Smiths. In 2015, Sister Mystery released a split 7" with Invsn which is frontman Dennis Lyxzen of Refused and Fake Names.[27][28] Sister Mystery's song "A Propelling Force" was later remixed by The Cure keyboardist Roger O'Donnell and released on Spotify.[29]

Goodridge provided background vocals on Blaqk Audio's album CexCells, on the song "Again, Again, and Again".[30] She also provides background vocals for Refused songs "Dawkins Christ" and "Useless Europeans", from their 2015 album Freedom.