MIRIAM REED has always considered the message as important as the medium, and in 1994, she co-founded with Adilah Barnes The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, which in its first year ran for four days at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and under Adilah Barnes is ongoing in 2006. In 1998, Miriam Reed founded the Los Angeles Celebrate Women Free Theatre Festival, which ran for three years, bringing to local libraries, theatres, and bookstores free performances celebrating the power of women. Also in support of feminist activity, Reed performed in and produced Hurrah for Woman Suffrage!, forty minutes of songs from the American Woman Suffrage Movement 1848-1920, available in cassette and CD.

As a SAG and AFTRA actress, Miriam Reed appeared in numerous commercials, as Edna in Graem Clifford's Deception with Andie McDowell, and in a recurring role in General Hospital. In 1984, she appeared as Annie in the West Coast premier of Foxfire at Hartnell College Western Stage, Salinas, California.

Reed's most important dramatic work is the writing and performing of a series of one-woman performances that celebrate remarkable women: Mrs. Stanton & Susan, drawn from the letters and writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, costumed by Sylvia Moss and directed by Michael Hackett; Louisa May Alcott: Living Little Women, which played on the Heartland Chautauqua; Oscar Wilde's Women, first presented by the University of Bologna, Italy; Talking Abortion, first presented in reading at the National Women's Studies Association Conference in 2002. Of especial importance is her ninety-minute performance of the birth control pioneer and founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger: Radiant Rebel

Among the many school and universities at which Miriam Reed has appeared in performance are University of California at Los Angeles, Davis, Santa Barbara, and Berkeley; Southern Methodist University, California Lutheran University, Merrimack College, Univerity of Oklahoma, University of Houston, University of Arkansas; Women's Center, Stanford University, along with performances for Planned Parenthood, Older Women's League, Pasadena Historical Society, American Association of University Women, League of Women' Voters, and Women's Equity Action League in Cambridge, Massachusetts. On December 1, 2002, Margaret Sanger: Radiant Rebel, was presented by Culture in Motion of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC.

Miriam Reed received her Ph.D. in dramatic literature from University of California, Los Angeles in 1980, where she taught composition rhetoric and oral presentation skills. In 2003, her volume of Sanger's selected short writings prefaced and introduced by Reed's extensive biographical introductions, was published by Barricade Books. Margaret Sanger: Her Life in Her Words, began shipping on July 28, 2003. Miriam Reed travels regularly with her one-women performances, which offer a prior day of classroom visits, and she is available for speaking and workshop engagements.

A FREE DEMO or CD VIDEO is available to presenters upon request. The demo includes brief excerpts from Part I and Part II of Margaret Sanger: Radiant Rebel, an excerpt from Louisa May Alcott: Living Little Women, photos of Mrs. Stanton and Susan, with music from the Hurrah for Woman Suffrage!

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