Mike Portnoy
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Mike Portnoy

Apr 20, 1967 - Long Beach, New York, USA

Michael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his drumming prowess and technical skill, Portnoy has won 23 awards from the Modern Drummer magazine. He has co-produced the last six Dream Theater albums with guitarist John Petrucci, starting from Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. From A Change of Seasons onwards, Portnoy had been writing a substantial amount of Dream Theater's lyrics. He is the second youngest person (after Neil Peart) to be inducted into the Modern Drummer's Hall of Fame (at 37 years of age).

On September 8, 2010, it was announced that Portnoy had left Dream Theater. Portnoy cited conflicting interests as the reason behind his departure.

On February 3, 2011, Portnoy announced that he has started a new project with Symphony X singer Russell Allen and guitarist Mike Orlando. Also he is involved in various projects with Neal Morse.

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie2004Dream Theater: Live at BudokanHimself - Drums
Movie2023Transatlantic: The Final Flight: Live At L'OlympiaSelf
Movie2021Liquid Tension Experiment 3
Movie2006Dream Theater: Score - 20th Anniversary World TourHimself - Drums
Movie1993Dream Theater: Images And Words - Live In TokyoHimself - Drums
Movie2001Dream Theater: Metropolis 2000 - Scenes From New YorkHimself - Drums
MovieN/ADream Theater – Live At Tokyo Sun Plaza
Movie2019Sons of Apollo - Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony - DocumentarySelf
Movie2018Haken - Live at ProgPower USA 2016Gong (Guest Appearance)
Movie2004Dream Theater: Riding the Train of ThoughtSelf
Movie2007Mike Portnoy - In Constant MotionHimself - Drums
Movie2001Mike Portnoy - Liquid Drum TheaterHimself - Drums
Movie2008Dream Theater: Chaos in MotionHimself - Drums
Movie2011Transatlantic: More Never Is EnoughSelf
Movie2007Dream Theater: Bucharest, RomaniaHimself
Movie2012Neal Morse: The Making of MomentumSelf
Movie2020Neal Morse: The Making of Sola GratiaSelf
Movie2004Mike Portnoy - Drums of ThoughtHimself
Movie2012The Making of Flying ColorsSelf
Movie2012Mike Portnoy: Testimony 2: Live in Los AngelesHimself
Movie2012Mike Portnoy - DrumertaHimself
Movie2005Mike Portnoy - Live at BudokanHimself
Movie2007Mike Portnoy - sysDRUMatic ChaosHimself
Movie2010Mike Portnoy - Whirlwind DrummingHimself
Movie2012Mike Portnoy - Drumming ColorsHimself
Movie2002Mike Portnoy - Ten Degrees of Turbulent DrummingHimself
Movie2011Yellow Matter Custard: One More Night in New York CitySelf - Drums
Movie2009Mike Portnoy - Black Clouds and Silver DrummingHimself
Movie2002Mike Portnoy - Drums Across ForeverHimself
Movie2005Mike Portnoy - Drumavarium
Movie2013Neal Morse: Live MomentumSelf
Movie2013Portnoy Sheehan MacAlpine Sherinian: Live in TokyoSelf - Drums
Movie2019Mike Portnoy: The Great Adventure
Movie2021Mike Portnoy: The Absolute Universe
Movie2018Mike Portnoy: The Similitude of a Dream Live
Movie2019Mike Portnoy: Third Degree
Movie2019The Neal Morse Band – Live In LimbourgSelf
Movie2013Mike Portnoy: The Drumming Dog
Movie2014Mike Portnoy: Drumming Nature
Movie2014Mike Portnoy: Kaleidodrums
Movie2015Mike Portnoy: Hot Drums
Movie2013Mike Portnoy: Live Momentum
Movie2012PSMS Portnoy, Sheehan, MacAlpine & Sherinian: InstruMENTAL Inspirations
Movie2015Mike Portnoy: Metal Drumming
Movie2022The Neal Morse Band: A U.S. Tour Of Innocence And DangerSelf
Movie2014Transatlantic: The Making of KaleidoscopeSelf
Movie2011Transatlantic: The Official Bootleg DVDSelf
Movie2014The Neal Morse Band - Live In IndiaSelf
Movie2011Neal Morse: The Making of Testimony TwoSelf
Movie2021Neal Morse: The Making of LifelineSelf
Movie2003Modern Drummer Festival Weekend 2003Self
Movie2000Transatlantic: The Making of SMPTeSelf
Movie2008Neal Morse: Live at 3RPSelf
Movie2021The Neal Morse Band: The Making of Innocence & DangerSelf
Movie2007Neal Morse: The Making of TestimonySelf
Movie2016The Neal Morse Band: The Making of a DreamSelf
Movie2015The Neal Morse Band: Live in AthensSelf
Movie2015Neal Morse: The Sola Scriptura SessionsSelf
Movie2019The Neal Morse Band: The Adventure Begins (The Making Of The Great Adventure)Self
Movie2014Flying Colors: Second Nature Video AnthologySelf
Movie2012Morse Portnoy George: The Making of Cover 2 CoverSelf
Movie2015The Neal Morse Band: The Making of The Grand ExperimentSelf
Movie2019The Neal Morse Band: The Great Adventure CommentarySelf
Movie2012Neal Morse: One Under ConstructionSelf
Movie2015Neal Morse: The Making of ?Self
Movie2023Morsefest 2020: Sola GratiaSelf
Movie2023Morsefest 2020: Cover2CoverSelf
Movie2013The Neal Morse Band/The Flower Kings: 19 Days in EuropeSelf
Movie2009Transatlantic: The Making of the WhirlwindSelf
Movie2010Mike Portnoy on the “Art Of Drumming” with Terry Bozzio
Movie2016The Neal Morse Band: Cruise to the EdgeSelf
Movie2020Transatlantic: Live At Sweden Rock 2014Self
Movie2018Haken - L-1VE
Movie2010Transatlantic: Whirld Tour 2010: Live from Shepherd’s Bush Empire, LondonSelf
Movie2006Transatlantic - Building the Bridge / Live in AmericaSelf
Movie2022The Neal Morse Band: Morsefest 2021Self
Movie2021Morsefest 2019Self
Movie2004Dream Theater: When Dream and Day ReuniteDrums
Movie2003Transatlantic - Live in EuropeSelf - Drums, Backing Vocals
Movie2013Flying Colors: Live in EuropeSelf - Drums
Movie2005G3 - Live in TokyoDrums
Movie2011Neal Morse: Testimony Two - Live in Los AngelesSelf
Movie2014Transatlantic: KaLIVEoscopeSelf - Drums
Movie2008Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE Live 2008
Movie2015Morsefest 2014: OneSelf
Movie2015Morsefest 2014: TestimonySelf
Movie2014Neal Morse: Morsefest - Testimony & One feat. Mike Portnoy LiveSelf
Movie2024Transatlantic: Morsefest 2022 - The Absolute WhirlwindSelf
Movie2015Flying Colors : Second Flight - Live at The Z7Self
Movie2024Neal Morse - Cruise to the Edge: Awakening - The MovieSelf
Movie1994Dream Theater: [1994] The Rudess ExperimentHimself - Drums
Movie2014The Winery Dogs: [2014] Sonisphere FestivalHimself - Drums
Movie2014The Winery Dogs - Unleashed in JapanHimself - Drums
Movie2016Metal Meltdown - Featuring Twisted Sister Live at the Hard Rock Casino Las VegasHimself - Drums
Movie2016The Neal Morse Band: Alive AgainSelf
Movie2005Cygnus and the Sea Monsters: One Night in ChicagoHimself - Drums
Movie2011Stone Sour: Rock In Rio 2011Himself - Drums
Movie2017Morsefest 2015: Question MarkSelf
Movie2017Morsefest 2015: Sola ScripturaSelf
Movie2017Neal Morse: Question Mark and Sola Scriptura LiveSelf - Drums, Vocals
Movie2003Yellow Matter Custard: One Night in New York CitySelf - Drums
Movie2006Amazing Journey: One Night in New York CityHimself - Drums
Movie2008Mike Portnoy - Score
Movie2004Mike Portnoy: Progressive Drum Concepts
Movie2005Dream Theater: A Walk Beside the BandHimself - Drums
Movie2017The Winery Dogs : Dog Years - Live in Santiago and Beyond 2013-2016Himself - Drums
Movie2009Liquid Tension Experiment: Live In LAHimself - Drums
Movie2006Hammer of the Gods: Two Nights in North AmericaHimself - Drums
Movie2018The Neal Morse Band : The Similitude of A Dream - Live in Tilburg 2017Self
Movie2018Morsefest 2017 - Testimony of a DreamSelf
Movie2004Neal Morse: Testimony LiveSelf
Movie2009Liquid Tension Experiment: Live In NYC
Movie2011Dream Theater: The Spirit Carries OnHimself
Movie2006Dream Theater: The Score So Far...Himself
Movie2009Dream Theater - Santiago, Chile 12/6/05Himself
Movie2019Sons Of Apollo: Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic SymphonySelf
Movie2002Dream Theater: [2002] Rotterdamned
Movie2007Dream Theater: Chaos in Progress: The Making of Systematic ChaosDrums / Vocals
Movie2020The Neal Morse Band : The Great Adventour - Live in BRNO 2019Self
Movie2020Mike Portnoy : MPMMXX Drum Cam
Movie2010Rush: Beyond the Lighted StageSelf
Movie2020Flying Colors : Third Stage - Live in LondonSelf
Movie2005Dream Theater: Dark Side of the MoonDrums and Vcoals
Movie2021The Making of the Absolute Universe by TransatlanticSelf
Movie2006Dream Theater: RomavariumSelf - Drums
Movie2021Mike Portnoy - LTE3Himself - Drums
Movie2021Transatlantic - The Absolute UniverseSelf
Movie2024Morsefest 2023: Testimony feat. NMBSelf
Movie1998Dream Theater: 5 Years in a LivetimeHimself
Movie2015Building the Beast: The Making of Metal AllegianceSelf
Movie2024Phil Collins: Drummer FirstSelf
Movie2025Dream Theater - Parasomnia
MovieN/ADream Theater: Live in Paris 2024Bateria, percussão e vocais
Movie2011Dream Theater: Panem et CircensisDrums and backing vocals
Movie2011Neal Morse: Testimony 2...For You.
TV Show2008That Metal Show1

Crew

Media
Movie2004Dream Theater: Live at BudokanDirectorDirecting
Movie2006Dream Theater: Score - 20th Anniversary World TourWriterWriting
Movie2006Dream Theater: Score - 20th Anniversary World TourDirectorDirecting
Movie2021Mike Portnoy - LTE3Creative DirectorArt
Movie2019Sons of Apollo - Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony - DocumentaryEditorEditing
Movie2019Sons of Apollo - Live with the Plovdiv Psychotic Symphony - DocumentaryDirectorDirecting
Movie2004Dream Theater: Riding the Train of ThoughtCreative DirectorArt
Movie2001Dream Theater: Metropolis 2000 - Scenes From New YorkDirectorDirecting
Movie2006Dream Theater: The Score So Far...Creative DirectorArt
Movie2019Sons Of Apollo: Live With The Plovdiv Psychotic SymphonyMusicianSound
Movie2007Dream Theater: Chaos in Progress: The Making of Systematic ChaosEditorEditing
Movie2007Dream Theater: Chaos in Progress: The Making of Systematic ChaosDirectorDirecting