Nice things people have said about Tom

"Drop-dead funny" - Star Tribune 

"Standout... rubber-faced, invitingly over-the-top" - Pioneer Press

"Tom Reed sings the hell out of 'Take Me to Sex'" - City Pages

"Fast paced physical comedy" -Pioneer Press

"Smart, funny, quick-witted, and possessing a better voice than a funny man should." -Cherryandspoon.com

"This guy is capital-F Funny and knows what he’s doing when it comes to satire." -Laura Stratford,Can't wait to see it: MN Fringe Edition blog

"Powerhouse vocals" "Guaranteed laughs" -Matthew Everett

Tom B. Reed Bio

A prolific performer, writer and improvisor in the Twin Cities, MN area and beyond, Reed has years of sketch comedy and improv experience on the Brave New Workshop mainstage, he's done musicals and plays at Mixed Blood, Jungle Theater, Open Eye, Artistry (among others), croons solo character improv as alter ego Lounge-asaurus Rex, and has created and performed popular Minnesota Fringe Festival one-­man musical parodies of everything from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones to a Stranger Things send-up Star Tribune called "Drop dead funny" along with critically-acclaimed solo show "Erotica for Houseplants." He also directed and served as head writer of the top-selling Couple Fight Fringe shows, has regularly performed at HUGE Improv Theater and is a former member of Comedy Sportz and the Rockstar Storytellers.

Reed can be seen in TV (Lady Dynamite on Netflix, America Unearthed on History Channel), Films (V/H/S/85 on Shudder, The Public Domain, many shorts) and commercials - Tom on IMDB.

As a writer, Reed's writing trends comedic including satire Gunplay, which combines high school theater nerds and romcom vibes to create an unlikely and hilarious takedown of the gun lobby. He has written dozens of sketches produced on Brave New Workshop's mainstage and a short play selected for the Raucous Caucus political play festival in New York City. He's also been part of writing teams for several award-winning short films featured across the nation at film festivals with Above-the-Line Entertainment. He wrote and directed his first horror play, Greenway, as part of the 2018 Twin Cities Horror Festival, which City Pages praised as "spine-tinglingly relatable."

Specific credits include: ~20 mainstage Brave New Workshop sketch comedy and improv shows; playing Donald in Lady Dynamite (Netflix) and Ananias Dare in America Unearthed (History Channel); Jungle Theater - Thomas O'Brien in Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley; 5 world premiere (U/S); Mixed Blood Theatre: Pastor Fred in INTERSTATE: A New Musical; Karl in Autonomy; Hunter/Burns in Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies; Dean/Devin in Gloria; Ensemble in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Henry in Next to Normal and Princeton in Avenue Q. Open Eye Theater: Dangus McMacaroney in Loch Mess, Forbelius Dort in HAIR BALL! and Gunders Helslarsen in LOG JAM!. History Theatre: Bud Abbott in Christmas of Swing.  Actors Theater: Daniel in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Additional on-screen credits include Grant Tunis in feature film, The Public Domain, many commercials and short film roles including Plumber Jack in Above-the-Line Entertainment's Vigorous Torque (Best Actor - 2015 48 Hour Film Project Minneapolis, South Dakota Film Festival selection), Rosencrantz in Above-the-Line Entertainment's film Coming Out (48HFP Best film winner, nominated Best Actor, Best Writing), Tad in Eyehustle Entertainment's film Buffalo Shampoo (jury award - comedy, SD Film Festival).

In the past, Reed competed for several national slam poetry teams and once performed in an unusually inclusive production of The Vagina Monologues (per instructions of the playwright). 
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Reed loves biking, games of all kinds, and spent his youth performing hard-hitting musicals like Of Mice and Mozart and A Sombrero For Santa when he wasn't hoeing garlic on his family's organic vegetable farm.