Beginnings
America's Most Complete
Arts Experience
for Young People.

Established 1984

America's Leading Arts Experience
for Young People

An approach to
professionalism as caring as
it is practical.

Staff Professional Résumé


Richard Reed



Casting Director in New York and Los Angeles for over 15 years, specializing in commercials, industrials, music videos, films, and now theater.

Feature film casting credits include Big (with Torn Hanks), Poltergeist II, Police Academy V, Halloween V, Pet Sematary, all recent Steven Segal features, and others.

Music videos include most of those produced by Stevie Wonder and Foreigner, also Whitney Houston, Billy Joel, and others.

National commercial casting credits include McDonald's, Burger King, Jello Pudding Pops (with Bill Cosby), Pepsi (with Michael J. Fox), Citibank Visa, Buick, Clairol, Con Edison, Dial, Lee Jeans, Levi's, Purina Cat Chow, NYCE, Cadbury Chocolate, RCA, KFC, Dentine, Hertz, and hundreds of others.

Theater casting includes the latest series of plays by Edward Albee, casting directly for the author and the Signature Theatre Company, through fall 1994.

Featured in new "How-To" video, showing children and parents the correct way to enter the commercial business, from getting an agent to demonstrating how to audition.

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68-A Croton Dam Rd
Ossining, NY   10562

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Special thanks to Dr. Kevin Kolack, Mia Valdez, Tracy Pence, Sybil Sklar and Cheryl Woolwine.

Last Updated: 01/24/2006 07:08 PM