Tony Award winner, Reed Birney has been an actor since 1974, making his Broadway debut at 21 in Albert Innaurato’s comedy smash, Gemini. He made an auspicious film debut in 1981 in Arthur Penn and Steve Tesich’s Four Friends. His work in the theater has been highly lauded, having nominated for two Tony Awards and winning once. He has won three OBIE Awards and a Drama Desk Award honoring his career. On television, he is best known as Vice President Donald Blythe in House of Cards. Other theater credits include Ian in the New York debut of Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Tony Blair in Stuff Happens, Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina, the original production of Circle Mirror Transformation. He can currently be seen in Lost Girls on Netflix, the Universal/Blumhouse film The Hunt, directed by Craig Zobel, and season one of the Apple TV+ series, Home Before Dark. Upcoming film projects include Mass, written and directed by Fran Kranz, costarring with Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton and Jason Isaacs and The 40 Year Old Version, Radha Blank’s Sundance award-winning film which debuts this fall on Netflix.
Reed’s extensive acting experience in theatre, film & television, has enabled him with a unique and valuable method for helping actors possess a greater understanding of the craft of acting.
In addition to his association with The Freeman Studio, he has taught at Columbia University, Primary Stages and HB Studio.