Ron Reed
My blogs
- Pacific Theatre History
- soul food movies
- oblations
- date movie: around the year, around the clock... at the movies
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | "I’m in the group of those who aspire to be dilettantes" |
| Location | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| Introduction | I'm an actor, writer, and director, the founding artistic director (now 'emeritus') of Vancouver's Pacific Theatre. I've got a podcast, Soul Food Ghost Light, a late-night pirate radio show where I play exactly what I want. My blogs include Date Movies (not what you think), and Oblations. |
| Interests | My family, Jesus, theatre, movies, music, photography, montage, Premier League Football (Liverpool), board games, books, radio |
| Favorite Movies | 1 Tender Mercies, 2 Magnolia, 3 Dogville, and in alphabetical order... About A Boy, American Beauty, Boyhood, Casablanca, Chinatown, Days Of Heaven, Drive My Car, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Field Of Dreams, Harold & Maude, It's A Wonderful Life, Me & Orson Welles, The Mission, Moonrise Kingdom, My Fair Lady, Pan's Labyrinth, Psycho, Rivers And Tides, Say Anything, Schindler's List, Shakespeare In Love, The Shining, The Son, The Year Of Living Dangerously |
| Favorite Music | Allman Brothers, Susie Arioli & Jordan Officer, Chet Baker, Beatles, Coltrane, Lake Street Dive, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Mayer Hawthorne, Ray LaMontagne, Original Sloth Band / Ken Whitely, Paul Simon, Pomplamoose, Scary Pockets, Sinatra, Steely Dan / Donald Fagen, U2. "The Harder They Come, " "Pieces of Dreams" (Carolyn Credico). |
| Favorite Books | The New Testament, The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, An American Childhood / Teaching A Stone To Talk / For The Time Being (Annie Dillard), A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles), Shoeless Joe / The Thrill Of The Grass ( W.P. Kinsella), Burning Chrome / Neuromancer (William Gibson), The Chronicles of Narnia (and plenty of other C.S. Lewis), The Lord Of The Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Educated (Tara Westover), The Davidson Affair (Stuart Jackman), Life After God (Douglas Coupland), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon), How To Be Good (Nick Hornby), The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), Pigs In Heaven (Barbara Kingsolver), The Book Of Guys (Garrison Keillor), A Separate Peace (John Knowles), Modern Poetry (ed. Mack, Dean, Frost), Finding Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihaly), The Stature Of Waiting (W.H. Vanstone). |