Gus Reed - Crew

Gus Reed is a director, writer and performer ​from Cape Cod. He graduated from Columbia University in May 2014 with departmental honors and the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for his first feature screenplay. Since 2016, he has been Senior Editor of The George Balanchine Foundation's Video Archives. He made his Broadway debut as a performer in the 2020 revival of West Side Story, directed by Ivo van Hove. He moved to Los Angeles in 2020 to attend the AFI Conservatory as a Directing Fellow, and graduated in August 2022. His 2022 short film, Hellmouth, starring Rhian Rees and Shane Coffey, premiered on NoBudge. His AFI thesis film, Ringing Rocks, stars Hunter Doohan, Max Sheldon and Rhian Rees, ​and premiered at the Overlook Film Festival. It won Best Short at the 2023 Portland Horror Film Festival, and screened at over twenty festivals across the world, including Beyond Fest, Grimmfest, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. He is developing his first feature, a ghost story set in his hometown on Cape Cod ​during the winter off-season.