We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Chris Reed a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Chris thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I always knew I wanted to be an artist, when I first say Will Smith on the Fresh Prince I would always copy his lines from his shows down to his movies. Then even to the point of making up my own stories in my head and acting them out in the mirror. Then after I discovered my love of dance, and followed the same pattern as I did with acting, watching the greats like MJ, Janet, Alvin Ailey. I just have always felt I was born to do this!

Chris, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

So first Hi! I’m Chris

And I’m a professional choreographer , actor , writer and filmmaker who resides in Baltimore MD. What I believe sets me apart from others is that I’m a triple threat, I wanna do it all and I wanna be damn good at it. I want to continue to pull in unique stories into my films and create choreography that’s not only unique but something that says oh yea that a Chris Reed piece.

I recently just released my first short film Final Sale on YouTube through my production company Bearded One Productions, and received the honor of being selected into 2 film festivals last year and couldn’t be more proud of my first born film.

As a black queer artist I want to be the one to tell our stories and bring in the right people to tell their stories. there are to sides to me and they equally deserve to be seen and heard.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

It would definitely be the connections that people have to the stories being told, what emotions did they receive did they understand the story, did you make them cry, laugh. Its so many things, and its such a beautiful thing to feel and see ones connection to what you created . Art is one of those things that bring people together, put people in spaces that they probably would have never sheared.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to stop the ” I give up”. The moment I realized this was an issue was when I went to a dance audition and was just not picking up the steps. I was so frustrated to the point that I gave up, and I told myself I can’t. This was an audition for my schools dance company, once it was over my names wasn’t called. The choreographer was nice to tell where I messed up, she told me ” you gave up and its not that you’re talented you just stoped trying and when you give on yourself so do other” and that has always stuck with me, so now I know there’s nothing I can’t do as long as I try.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Chrisreedart 2nd page Bearded One Productions
• Youtube: Bearded One Productions

Image Credits
Bearded One Productions : Final Sale Photographer : Unïx Funktopia