Therese Workman is a Brooklyn-based musician, originally from Maine, born to Jamaican and English nurses. She studied visual art and education, getting her undergrad and grad degrees from Harvard before moving to NYC in 2003.
Between 2009 and 2012, she returned to Maine and collaborated with artists across genres, including the soul-folk band Ramblin' Red, hip hop producer Alias (Anticon Collective), and rapper Sontiago. 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 college classmate) in 2010 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 2013 Album of the Year by Alex Luke, former EVP of A&R for EMI North America.
Workman has been awarded music residencies at Fljótstunga farmland in Iceland’s Westfjords, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, (where she was named recipient of the David Del Tredici Residency for a Composer, funded by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music) and most recently at Ucross in Wyoming’s High Plains. She continues to develop material and concepts inspired by isolation, other-worldly surroundings, semi-feral horses, haunted mansions, sleep deprivation, and Korean tv.
Workman released the Oh My Goodness EP TIPPY in 2019, and is producing remixes for other artists, sometimes acts in projects like The Adulterers (2018 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection and Sundance Now Original Series), Fit Model (2019 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.