About Us
Elisabeth Ness
Producer | Director | Editor | Actor
Elisabeth Ness is an award-winning performer, producer, and creative entrepreneur. The Yale alumna's drive to make a positive impact on the world inspired her to co-found Good Porpoise Productions. She has been honored as one of Take the Lead’s “50Women Can Change the World in Media & Entertainment”.
Elisabeth Ness is an award-winning performer, producer, and creative entrepreneur. The Yale alumna's drive to make a positive impact on the world inspired her to co-found Good Porpoise Productions. She has been honored as one of Take the Lead’s “50Women Can Change the World in Media & Entertainment”.
Her work has been called "especially funny" (NY Times), "razor-sharp" (Washington Post), and "hilarious" (Times Herald-Record, Catskill Chronicle). She created the hit digital comedy Redheads Anonymous, which was featured in USA Today, Huffington Post, and Tubefilter, and for which she won 'Best Actress in a Sitcom' - and along with her team won 'Best Sitcom Screenplay' - at the Rome Web Awards, and received a nomination for the ‘Raindance Discovery Award’ (London), among others. All-told, the series so far has garnered over 13 awards and 26 nominations at festivals worldwide.
Onscreen roles include Sara in Bull (CBS), Rose in Like Father (Netflix, with Kelsey Grammer), Daredevil (Marvel), FBI (CBS), Going Public (SOHO International), and En Route ('Best Lead Actress' nom, Blackbird Film Fest). Recent writing and producing credits also include Coming Down to the Wire ('Best Funny Music Video' nom, Women's Comedy Film Fest in Atlanta) and Kiki Comes to Set.
Elisabeth runs a monthly NYC ‘salon’ for women entrepreneurs in entertainment, as well as the Collective Of Badass Women in the Entertainment Business. Her acting reel is available at elisabethness.com.
Ed Nescot
Producer | Director/DP | Editor | Drone Pilot
Ed Nescot is the co-founder of Good Porpoise Productions, and the head of Ventana Productions' New York office. He's also an FAA-licensed drone pilot.
In his two decades of shooting, directing, editing, and producing docs, narrative shorts, and broadcast TV segments all around the world, Ed has helped Dr. Oz tackle his fear of heights 800 ft. above NYC; experienced Zero Gravity aboard the “Vomit Comet”;
worked the red carpet with stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Brian Cox, and Steve Carell; made visual music with virtuosos Joshua Bell, Marvin Hamlisch, and Wycleff Jean; discussed the future of Space Tourism with Sir Richard Branson; captured conversations with luminaries like Steven Spielberg, Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger; trekked along the Moroccan coastline; and even scrubbed in for brain surgery.
He is the Director of Photography for Good Porpoise's acclaimed digital series Redheads Anonymous, which has received festival and international recognition, including winning the Audience Awards at Katra Film Series and the NY Comedy Shorts Film Festival. Ed's video journalism and editing work has garnered accolades that include Telly, Aurora, Videographer, Aegis, Clarion, and New York Festival awards – but the trophies he’s most proud of are the league championship wins of his intramural soccer team!
Ed and Elisabeth are proud members of the Hexagon Initiative.
