David Wayne Reed (he/him) is a writer/director born in rural Kansas, inspired by narratives of landscape, memory, transformation, and time.

His films, Eternal Harvest and land and flower have played multiple film festivals including Middlebury New Filmmaker’s Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, Kansas City International Film Festival, Out Here Now, Ojai Short Film Festival, McMinnville Short Film Festival, Covellite International Film Festival, and Doc Sunback Film Festival.

Both Eternal Harvest and land and flower can be seen in rotation on KCPT-PBS.

Reed was host and producer of the popular ‘show and tell’ storytelling series,  Shelf Life from 2016-2022.  

Reed is a Charlotte Street Generative Performing Arts Fellow. He has been awarded grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Charlotte Street Foundation, and Spencer Museum of Art,  the Puffin Foundation, two Inspiration Grants from Arts KC, has won multiple Best of Awards from the Pitch Weekly (including Best Actor, Best Play, and Best Filmmaker), and has been in residency at Escape to Create, Charlotte Street, and Tallgrass Artist Residency. 

Reed served as Acting Chairman of the Municipal Art Commission of Kansas City, Missouri and on the Executive Committee of the 1% for Public Art program at the new Kansas City International Airport from 2020-2024.

He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Works include: Goliath,  Help Yourself, Jolly Rancher, Sequoia, and Peggy and Paul at the Post Office in Provincetown. 

As an actor, he has appeared at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams International Theatre Festival, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Fishtank Performance Studio, The Living Room, Late Night Theatre, Seaside Repertory Theatre as well as several commercials and music videos.

He is currently in production on his new film, XYLEM, to debut this fall in conjunction with the Tallgrass Film Center and Tallgrass Artist Residency.