Briana Gibson Reeves

A Carolina girl, who believes grits (with butter) are essential for breaking fasts on weekends, Briana Gibson Reeves is a wife, daughter, sister, and the favorite Auntie. Her most fulfilling mornings are 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 her favorite color, leopard; and most energized sharing meals with close family and friends.  Travel is her favorite pathway to learning more about the human experience. Her favorite domestic trip to date was a month long road trip traveling south. 

She lives to create, write, produce, and tell stories and has a performing resume stacked with decades worth of credits from originating roles Off Broadway to co-starring in indie films.  Although she is classical trained (she will fight to the death with her longsword and rapier/dagger in a heartbeat and has had many opportunities to breathe life into the lovers, explorers, outlaws, jesters, and muses of Shakespeare, Moliere, and Etherege), she doesn’t limit herself to the classical canon.  In fact, the work that she is most proud of spurs conversation and requires one to interrogate their own belief systems.  And the space that is most freeing for her 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.  

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In addition to performing, she is a master teacher and Teach for America alumnus. In fact, before transitioning to artistry full time, Briana taught high school math for five years. She excelled in the classroom, and brings her skill (which she credits to natural inheritance from the best teacher, her mother) and expertise to facilitating a wide spectrum of trainings including  acting, movement, text analysis, and improvisation across all abilities and ages ranging from kindergartners to adults. She has impacted thousands in the Greater Washington DC and Baltimore communities - with her work in the education departments of Shakespeare Theatre Company and Everyman Theatre, and has even helped to train teachers on how to integrate Shakespeare’s work into their individual English curriculums. 

While her professional body of work has garnered acclaim, including induction into Hampton University’s 40 under 40 Alumni Society and a Metrolina Theatre Association Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical, creation of own content excites her.  Most recently, she wrote, produced, and starred in her own series, #blackhistorymoment highlighting inventions of Black Americans. She is currently in pre-production for a faith based docuseries in partnership with her husband, their production company NuWei, and Faith Counts, which is set to be released in Spring 2023 across social platforms. 

She is married to fellow Hamptonian, Teddy Reeves, and the pair currently reside in Brooklyn, NY with many plant children.