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Athletics:

Muay Thai kickboxing, cycling, running, weightlifting, yoga, skiing and surfing

Interests:

Architecture, photography, travel, jazz and blues

Directors:

Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Mann, Kristof Kozlowski, Terrence Malick, Oliver Stone, David Cronenberg

Films:

Withnail and I, Ran, Giant, Das Boot, Gallipoli, The Searchers, Once Upon a Time in the West, La Dolce Vita, Glory, Miller's Crossing, Persona, Brazil

Television:

The Wire, Band of Brothers, Deadwood, Meet the Press, Hardball with Chris Mathews, Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, Discovery, National Geographic

Music:

John Coltrane, The Clash, Sonny Rollins, King Pleasure, Bohannon, John Lee Hooker, Otis Redding, The Screaming Trees, Dexter Gordon, CCR, Soundgarden

Albums:

The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, Willie Nelson - Teatro, The Tragically Hip - Up to Here, Neil Young - After the Gold Rush, The Doors - L.A. Woman, Johnny Cash - American Recordings

Books:

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, Don Delillo - White Noise, C.G. Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Cornel West - Democracy Matters, Richard Rorty - Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, John Wiseman - SAS Survival Handbook

Artists and Playwrights:

Mark Rothko, Sam Shepard, Francis Bacon, David Mamet, Edward Hopper, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard

Links

Personal:

IMDb, Facebook, Oldfield Management

Acting / Theatre:

The Metropolitan Opera, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Rapier Wit Stage Combat and Fight Choreography

Film / Media:

Relativity Media, Bigfoote Music and Sound, Voodoo People Productions, Metacritic Entertainment

Artists:

Omar Fadel, Rich Song, Katie Bull

Politics / News:

BBC Hardtalk, Salon, MSNBC, Barack Obama

Athletics:

Old School Muay Thai

Architecture:

Architectural Digest, Skyscraper

“Reed, let me take care of the directing. You need only concern yourself with playing the lead.”

After graduating from high school in Calgary, Alberta in 1990, Reed has since resided in Vancouver, Montreal, New York City for eight years and recently in Toronto. He is an actor, writer and filmmaker based in Toronto and New York.

Reed made his acting debut at age 10 as the lead in his school's Christmas play. Upon reflection he recalls being told by his director, “Reed, let me take care of the directing. You need only concern yourself with playing the lead.” A full immersion and exploration of the arts ensued with subsequent acting roles, receiving many accolades and winning awards for his student plays, talent shows, musical performances and independent productions alike.

He began formal training in Vancouver with Shea Hampton’s Acting From Source, while earning a degree in the Arts from Langara College. Soon after, he attended The Company of Rogues Actor’s Studio in Calgary. In 1999, he studied classical theatre at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. Shortly after, Reed moved to New York where he studied acting at Carnegie Hall for three years under renowned and esteemed teachers Fred Kareman and Wynn Handman. These gentlemen provided him with an eclectic and comprehensive exploration of the acting process, resulting in the expansion of his capacities as a versatile and dynamic character actor.

Reed has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as the First Murderer and Lennox the Nobleman in Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’, directed by Adrian Noble. He has also performed in numerous Off Broadway productions and distinguished himself in such performances as David in the highly regarded original comedy ‘How to Speak Woman’, as Franz in a production of Arthur Schnitzler's ‘La Ronde’, and as an Athenian Orator in ‘Lysistrata.’ Other notable performances are as Lysander in a summer stock production of ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’, and as Eddie in ‘Fool for Love’.