Timothy Oliver Reid
T. Oliver Reid is a multi-talented grammy nominated artist (Hadestown and Sondheim Unplugged) who has spent the past 20 years working on Broadway shows which have amassed more than 20 Tony Awards from the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards.
Broadway credits include, “Hadestown”, “Once On This Island”, “Sunset Boulevard”, “After Midnight”, “Chicago”, “Kiss Me Kate”, “Follies”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”, “Never Gonna Dance”, “La Cage Aux Folles”, “The Wedding Singer”, “Mary Poppins”, “Damn Yankees” and the 25th Anniversary concert of “Dreamgirls”. He is Associate Choreographer on Hadestown Broadway, Hadestown Amsterdam, and choreographer of the 2nd National tour of Hadestown.
T. Oliver has been lucky enough to work with some of the Great White Way’s brightest and best performers including… Chita Rivera, Bryan Stokes Mitchell, Jane Krakowski, Karen Ziemba, Blythe Danner, Judith Ivey, Marin Mazzie, Sutton Foster, Gavin Creel and Robert Goulet. The list of Directors, Choreographers and Musical Directors he has had the great fortune to work with include the likes of Michael Blakemore, Kathleen Marshall, Rob Marshall, Rob Ashford, Casey Nicolaw, Matthew Warchus, Jerry Zaks, Ann Reinking, Jerry Mitchell and Sir Richard Eyre.
T. is a professor at Rider University in the Department of Performing Arts and an adjunct Professor in NYU-Tisch’s Graduate Acting program.
He is also co-founder of Black Theatre Coalition. A 501c3 whose mission is “To remove the illusion of inclusion in the American Theater…” www.blacktheatrecoalition.org
A Native of the small town of Gastonia North Carolina, T. Oliver has been performing since he could walk and talk. The youngest of 4 children…he began singing in the choir of St. Stephen’s AME Zion church, as part of a very musical family.
Two days after graduating from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Music, he began work on the 2nd National tour of “Once On This Island”. T. Oliver subsequently performed in the 2nd national tour of “Guys & Dolls” and in other regional theaters before making his way to New York City and Broadway.
