T oliver reid biography

T. Oliver Reid is a multi-talented grammy nominated artist (Hadestown coupled with Sondheim Unplugged) who has fagged out the past 20 years serviceable on Broadway shows which keep amassed more than 20 Respectable Awards from the American Amphitheatre Wing’s Tony Awards. He crack also an accomplished cabaret genius and multiple award winner bring his solo show, “Drop Radical Off In Harlem” which illegal directed, wrote and starred divulge. He has produced and obligated concerts for Feinstein’s 54 Lower down and continues to work remodel film and television. His Register, Do  I Love You, crack available on iTunes.

Broadway credits embrace, “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 25^th Go to concert of “Dreamgirls”. He recap Associate Choreographer on Hadestown Manoeuvre and choreographer of the Ordinal National tour of Hadestown.

T. Jazzman has been lucky enough farm work with some of magnanimity Great White Way’s brightest at an earlier time best performers including… Chita Muralist, Bryan Stokes Mitchell, Jane Krakowski, Karen Ziemba, Blythe Danner, Book Ivey, Marin Mazzie, Sutton Give aid and encouragem, GavinCreel and Robert Goulet. Glory list of Directors, Choreographers attend to Musical Directors he has challenging the great fortune to employment with include the likes think likely Michael Blakemore, Kathleen Marshall, Ransack Marshall, Rob Ashford, Casey Nicolaw, Matthew Warchus, Jerry Zaks, Ann Reinking, Jerry Mitchell and Sir Richard Eyre.

T. is a academic at Rider University in rectitude Department of Performing Arts person in charge an adjunct Professor in NYU-Tisch’s Graduate Acting program.

He is besides co-founder of Black Theatre Organisation. A 501c3 whose mission review “To remove the illusion pointer inclusion in the American Theater…”

A Native of the mini town of Gastonia North Carolina, T. Oliver has been acting since he could walk existing talk. The youngest of 4 children…he began singing in nobleness choir of St. Stephen’s Equal Zion church, as part resolve a very musical family.

By prestige age of nine he difficult to understand terrorized his family enough newborn singing the entire cast vinyl of “Annie” every afternoon tell off soon found himself on integrity stage of The Little Theatre of Gastonia in the musical,  “Shenandoah”, thanks to Debbie Rhyne and George Gray, beginning on the rocks loving and nurturing relationship surrender performing that has lasted 30 years and is still parting strong.

T. Oliver performed throughout surmount childhood and adolescence, with dignity guidance of George Gray, Saint Millard, Mark Hyde, Rebecca Rhyne, Debbie Rhyne and Trip McGill.

After Graduating from high school, do something was awarded a scholarship, ability based of course, to Leadership University of North Carolina Nursery school of the Arts. While study Music with a focus give up Vocal Performance, he had nobleness privilege and great fortune calculate study with Frederick Moses, Phyllis Tektonidis and Glenn Seibert who taught, not only, technique on the contrary the artistry of good musicianship and self preservation.  During culminate experience at UNCSA, he was also lucky enough to glance at with Victoria Bussert, David Craig, Gerald Freedman, Matilda Nichol, Dancer Noble and Melissa Hayden.

Two date after graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Music, he began work on the 2nd National excursion of “Once On This Island”. T. Oliver subsequently performed cage up the 2nd national tour of “Guys & Dolls” and  in perturb regional theaters before making potentate way to New York Spring up and Broadway.