Don Reed - East 14th profile picture

Don Reed - East 14th

Comedian/Ad-Executive - Grab a Handful of Life and Smear it All Over You.

About Me

EAST 14TH recently completed a hilarious and moving 5 month LA run at Hollywood's historic Stella Adler Theatre- now on to OFF BROADWAY nYc this summer!"GO! Reed is the consummate showman..." LA WEEKLY -M. Keshaviah"...Supremely talented." SO Cal.com.I get things did. Done stand-up on HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, CBS, NBC. East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant is an explosive, character and dance enthused one-man show that is best explained like this...Back in the day...in Oakland.My step dad forced me to be a straight-A, God-fearin Church boy.But what I really wanted to be was just like my dear old dad. Too bad I didnt knowmy dear old dad... was a pimp!Also producing and supplying additional material to Mark Curry's one man blaze - THROUGH THE FIRE.Back to the bio - performed at Caesar's, Golden Nugget, Comedy Stop at the Trop, Dangerfields, written and directed shorts for HBO, written for half-hour comedies and acted in a buncha crazy stuff. (Check out IMdb.com Don Reed (l) if you think I'm frontin'. Done voice over work for Spiderman, The Flintstones and more. Performed over 1,000 audience warm-ups (Girlfriends, The Game, That 70's Show and more.. Plus I'VE LICKED A RIVER. EAST 14TH: TRUE TALES OF A RELUCTANT PLAYERa one man thangwritten, directed and performed by Don Reed.PIMPIN' DOWN YOUR STREET IN 2008

My Interests

Stand-up comedy, one man/woman performances, dancing my ass off, no really dancing my ass off, entertainment advertising, consumer advertising, making short films, sketech comedy, cold beer and wings when all the work is DID.

I'd like to meet:

John Lequizamo, Jamie Pressly, Richard Pryor (RIP), The President of Show Business, The Nederlanders, Carmen Electra (again), Richard Jeni (RIP), Dane Cook (again), Seal, Dave Chapelle (again), Lee Marvin (RIP), Erol Flynn, Steely Dan, Sting, Parliament, Brazil 66, Jay Z, Terence Howard, my grandmother Washington before Alzheimer's, Cheryl Crowe while peeling the label from a bottle of Bud, EE Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Woody Allen, MLK, Alfred Hitchcock, cast of The Party (starring Peter Sellers), cast of RENT, The guy who built the Hollywood Sign, Rodney Franklin (Jazz Artist), Al Jarreau, 50 Cent (with lots of security around), the guy who designed the Bently Continental GT, The woman who inspired the guy to build the Ford Bronco. And oh yeah, God.

Music:

Jay Z, Outkast, Sting, The Clash, Ludacris, Vivaldi, Al Jareau, Sade, Teddy Pendergrass, LTD, Talking Heads, Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire, Bozz Scaggs, Tracy Lee, Jill Scott, Shawn Colvin, Sylvester, Bee Gees, Rush (Tom Sawyer), India Arie, Christopher Cross, Snoop, Raphael Sadiq, James Brown, The Dramatics, Lee Ritnour, The Rippingtons, Pat Metheny, Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Cube, Luther Vandross, Sammy Davis Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Latifah, Jamie Foxx, Louie Armstrong, Michael Jackson, Aaron Akins, Andreas Vollenweider, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Peter Brown, Rose Royce, Rivers to the Sea (Tampa), Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul Simon, Nancy Wilson, Usher, The Roots, Jungle Brothers, Johnnie, Tasha and John Taylor, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder... of course 11-teen more.... ..

Movies:

An Inconvenient Truth, The Shawshank Redemption, Blades of Glory, The Party, Pulp Fiction, Wedding Crashers, Crash, The Birds, RENT, All That Jazz, Raging Bull, Hamburger: The Movie (perfect trash), A Chorus Line, Catch Me If You Can, Heist, The Sting, Trading Places, Titanic, Napoleon Dynamite, Friday, Midnight Cowboy, Days of Wine and Roses, all Pink Panther movies, A Clockwork Orange, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Tootsie, Do The Right Thing, The French Connection, Fargo, GoodFellas

Television:

The Cosby Show (dammmit I was on it once), Sopranos, Chapelle's Show, In Living Color, The Twilight Zone, Love: American Style, Columbo, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Kung-Fu, Blind Date, Deal or No Deal, Survivor, Cribs, Making the Band, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Six Feet Under, Entourage, The Ali G Show, Deadwood, Wayons Bros (my voice was on there)Def Poetry, Def Jam (wrote and directed some shorts for it), Robert Townsend and His Partners in Crime, America's Next Top Model, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Will & Grace, Reno 911, Mad TV, SNL (some of the time), Elimidate, Judge Mathis, INVASION, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, A Different World (Dammit i was on it 4 times), Seinfeld, Freaks and Geeks (one of the best shows EVER on television)... and 75 more. I'm not threatened by television and it doesn't stop me from being wildly creative at all... I don't think.

Books:

The World According to Garp, I KILLED, The Fire Next Time, The Catcher in the Rye, Comic Lives, Creative Visualization, Bible, Gray's Anatomy, The Trick To Money is Having Some, John Collier's Short Stories, The Martian Chronicles, Think and Grow Rich: A Black ChoicePLAYS: A Life in the Theatre, Richard III, Our Town, Raisin in the Sun, 1 to 10, Norman Rockwell is Bleeding, Sweeny Todd...

Heroes:

YOU!, MLK, JFK, Jay Z, Oprah, James Baldwin, Stan Lathan, My Father, My Uncle, My Mom, My Step-Dad, my Sister, My little Brother, My older brother, my wife, my sons, John Leguizamo, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, Robert Townsend, The entire Wayons Clan, Billy Crystal, Colin Powell, Prince, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Poppy Champlain, Lou Rawls, Patti Keeling (Chabot College), Prof. Tom Miller -UCLA, Mayor Tom Bradley, Ms. Cheney (6th Grade Teacher), my damn self fo' sho, Gayla Nethercott, Blake Edwards, Shakti Gawain, Depok Chopra, Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Larry Wilmore, Lana Schmeeckle, Bob Johnson (CEO BET/Viacom), Sammy, Barry Diamond, Harriet Tubman, Vince Manze, Russell Simmons... Grandma Jackson

My Blog

Bill Cosby Told Me...

Waay back in 1989 I guest starred on "The Cosby Show."  It was an amazing experience because it all came together in one week.  Cosby saw me on HBO.  Cosby called Sinbad.  Sinbad c...
Posted by Don Reed - East 14th on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:38:00 PST