Briana Gibson Reeves
actress. producer. coach.
Welcome.
FORMER
MATH
TEACHER
In addition to her creative pursuits, Briana is also a mathematician and spent years working as a high school math teacher and middle grades math specialist before transitioning to her current acting and improvisational development work. She retains a small roster of middle and high schoolers that she individually coaches. She is an educational ally and most of her clients remain with her through their high school graduation.
More About Briana
She is a Carolina girl that lives for mornings fueled with coffee, sun salutations and meditative gratitude. Her reserved, calming spirit soothes and her earthy energy grounds. She is most at peace floating in water; most creative thrifting; most radiant wearing leopard; and most energized breaking bread with family and friends. Her favorite pathway to learning more about the human experience is travel.
Briana has a performing resume filled with decades of credits from Off Broadway to indie films. She is classically trained and will fight to the death with her rapier/dagger but she doesn’t limit herself to the classical canon. New work excites her and she is proudest when it spurs conversation and requires one to interrogate their own belief systems. The space that is most freeing for Briana to create is collaborative and inclusive, permitting her to enter in the full totality of who she is as a human being, including her experience as a Black woman living in America.
While her professional acting work has garnered acclaim, including a Metrolina Theatre Association Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, producing original content excites her. She is currently in post-production as executive producer of a YouTube docuseries set to be released in Summer 2024. Briana also stars in this series which explores millennials and multi-faith integration.
In addition to producing and performing she is a coach, master teacher, training facilitator and Teach for America alumnus. Before transitioning to artistry, Briana was a high school math teacher, principal intern and curriculum design specialist. She now applies her extensive background in education as CEO of B.Improv to coach teams in the application of the rules of improvisational play to transform their organization's functionality.
Briana currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Teddy Reeves, and their many plant children.
Before
Off Broadway,
she flew west
Briana brought to life fictional homesteader, Fannie Dove, a settler of the historical all black town of Nicodemus in Flyin West at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore. Additionally, through her work with the education department, she entered over twenty Batimore City classrooms and facilitated pre-show workshops to prepare high school students to see the play.
For years, Cleage's story about sisterhood, survival and creating family was on her bucket list. Never did she imagine a month shy of returning from a road trip rediscovering historically black spaces and towns that she would be offered a chance to tell the story of the land she had just traversed.
The Bonus: For the first time in her career Briana played opposite a fellow Hampton University alumnus.
See Briana Work
See Briana Work
Briana Gibson Reeves - Footage
Briana Gibson Reeves performing Addict 1 monologue from Lynn Nottage's Fabulation
Briana Gibson Reeves performing Shanita from Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau
