Mr. Porter has theatre credits stretching back to his portrayal of Bogey in Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam for the Mark Allen Players.

He has participated in several MHRTC productions, including A Community Christmas Carol, Sunday Night by the Philco, and Inspecting Carol.

His most recent Portland appearances are as Major Metcalf in The Mousetrap with NW Classical Theatre, as Herr Mueller in NW Children's Theatre's production of Frankenstein, as Baylor in Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind with Theatre Vertigo, and as Esteban in Miracle Theatres new translation of Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna. Upcoming roles include Hans Bethe in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Father Willow and The Ghost Fancier in By the Bog of Cats for CoHo Productions.

A random sampling of his past roles would include, in no particular order: Claudius in Hamlet, Teddy in Arsenic and Old Lace, Fluellen in Henry V, Dr. Wally in Marvin's Room, Buckingham in Richard III, The Chaplain in The Lady's Not For Burning, Feste in Twelfth Night, and Mr. Smee in Peter Pan.

He is a founding member of the Willamette Radio Workshop and can be heard in various roles on XM Radio in Dry Smoke and Whispers Holodio Theatre.