From the recurring guest star role as CIA Director Diana Greene on THE EQUALIZER to comedies and other dramas, here's a 90 second demo reel of my recent work.
Recurring guest star role as CIA Director Diana Greene on the CBS-TV hit "THE EQUALIZER" starring Queen Latifah
CIA DIRECTOR DIANA GREENE. RECURRING GUEST STAR.
CBS-TV “THE EQUALIZER” STARRING QUEEN LATIFAH.
With the very talented “Chess” on Broadway and “North/South” miniseries actor Phillip Casnoff playing the Secretary of State to my CIA Director Diana Greene on THE EQUALIZER, Season 4 Episode 1.
One of my favorite ways to start a new year of promising projects - Jan. 2024.
ELEVEN EMMY nominations! Congratulations to the whole team!! Only Murders In The Building Season 2 Episode 10. Season finale with Paul Rudd, Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Selena Gomez, cliffhanger leading into the storyline for Season 3. Proud to be a part of it and also to be seen in Season 3 episode 1!
Such a joy to bring this character to life in the beautifully crafted film “Last Dance With You” on location in Waco, Georgia. Premieres Spring 2024. Stay tuned…
PHOTO: With executive producer & multi-talented lead actor Carrie Anne Hunt , who so movingly stars in the film. Written/directed/produced by Paul Jenkins, with empathy, laughter, and generosity of spirit. What a blessing!
So many fun auditions!
Look for me in the 3rd episode of the AppleTV+ series Dear Edward as Connie Britton’s realtor.
Also booked from these auditions I’m starring as Captain Roe G. Kyler in the true story proof-of-concept film Dark Landings.
Loved filming the bereaved mother who gives her daughter a long-held “gift” in the Paul Jenkins/Carrie Anne Hunt drama Last Dance With You in Atlanta, premiering Spring 2024.
Only in Brooklyn can you walk around in your bathrobes and no one stops you. John Turturro's THE JESUS ROLLS, (formerly GOING PLACES). World Premiere - Rome Film Festival October 2019. Opened March 2020 at IFC. Tim Blake Nelson and I play wife and husband tending to Bobby Cannavale and John in their time of need.
New Commercial Voiceover Demo Reel - played around on iMovie with some pix to go with the spots. My voiceovers on this video were produced by Brittany Cox and Ryan Ricks of Next Level Voice Demos at Sound on Sound Studios in Montclair, NJ.
Playing Bobby Clohessy's wife in his play Castle Hill, with his real-life sons Byron and Myles playing our sons.
Will I see you there? On Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 7, episode 9 - Force of Nature) I played Dr. Serova, the Hekaran Astrophysicist/Warp Field Theorist who paid the ultimate price to prove that Warp Drive was polluting the solar system.
March 1-2, 2024
L.A. Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel
2500 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank, Ca. The Hollywood Show Info.
It’ll also be a really fun reunion with my fellow #AsTheWorldTurns and #Seinfeld alum, Melanie Smith who played Emily Stewart while I played Shannon O’Hara McKechnie on ATWT. And I played Jerry’s vengeful ex-date on The Baby Shower episode while Melanie recurred in season 5 as Rachel Goldstein. Mel played Tora Ziyal on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
On location in Seattle, filming the proof-of-concept short film, DARK LANDINGS, as Detective Captain Roe G. Kyler in this supernatural police procedural. It’s on its way to being produced as a TV series! Stay tuned…
Playing Homicide Detective Captain Roe G. Kyler in this true life story about the 1970’s military juntas in South America, produced by F. Mark Sawyer, directed/produced by Sandra Scragg.
Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and Yvonna Kopacz-Wright welcomed me with open-arms as Child Psychologist Gretchen Blandon on the Post-Graduate Psychopath episode, Season 22, Ep 14 - my 4th time on the show after playing attorney Felicia Chatham on 3 previous episodes earlier this century. Kindness trickles down from the top of any company and Mariska has in spades, along with the humility and sense of play that invite one’s best performance.
Rehearsing with some of my lovely old friends from As The World Turns for a benefit for Trent Dawson’s theatre company, Katonah Classic Stage.
I played ”Susan” not Shannon this time around, alongside my pal Melanie Smith as “Emily” in this benefit reading of the final ATWT script.
Fun day on location in upstate NY with Billy Porter. Watch me Here as Patti Lupone’s curler-headed neighbor on Ryan Murphy’s POSE on FX. Episode 207 - “Blow”.
The differences between the #COVID19 protocol rules on FBI: Most Wanted, shot in July 2021, and when I appeared for the 4th time on Law & Order: SVU in March of 2021.
New Headshots - Photography by Kurt Sneddon - HMU by Emily Katz Beauty
Awesome casting directors Erica Hart C.S.A. and Julie Tucker C.S.A at their staged reading of Yvonna and Anita Kopacz’s stirring supernatural police procedural TANDEM, starring Yvonna Kopacz-Wright. After playing stern Sister Mary, I had to smudge my spirit with sage!
FBI:Most Wanted - Director Peter Stebbings greeted me on set with words that made my actor-heart soar. The lovely and generous Alexa Davalos was a delight, as was working with kind & gorgeous Julian McMahon. Season 2, Ep. 3 Patriots.
Honored to have once again been asked to play with these amazing filmmakers, Terence Krey & Christine Nyland, in their newest feature film, SUMMONERS.
Thousand Pines by Matthew Greene, directed by Austin Pendleton. A fascinating 3-act drama about children, guns, & schools, with each of the actors portraying 3 roles in each of the three families involved in the tragedy. Produced by Mark Lamos at The Westport Country Playhouse.
Is it Maggie or Margaret?
My professional name is Margaret Reed, but everybody, post-Cornell University days, calls me Maggie. I grew up in the farm country of John Steinbeck's hometown Salinas, California (look on the back of your bags of lettuce.)
Catching the acting bug in the 7th grade as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, I then went on to play leading roles in Camelot, Gypsy, The Fantasticks, Winnie-the-Pooh, Cactus Flower, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and many other musicals and straight plays, including one of John Steinbeck's few plays, Burning Bright, in the basement of his childhood home.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from The University of California at Santa Cruz led to my Masters of Arts in Acting (Professional Actor Training Program) from Cornell University.
TELEVISION: Recurring guest star on CBS as the Director of the CIA on Queen Latifah’s TV series The Equalizer.
FILM: Dark Landings as homicide detective Captain Roe G. Kyler by Mark Sawyer, directed by Sandra Geldenhuys-Scragg and as a bereaved mother in the Paul Jenkins/Carrie Anne Hunt tear-jerking drama Last Dance With You. The proof-of-concept Dark Landings is at festivals in 2024 seeking to be produced as a TV series.
I play the realtor to Connie Britton’s character in the AppleTV+ 2023 series Dear Edward based on the poignant book by Ann Napolitano, produced by Emmy winner Jason Katims, directed by DGA winner Allison Liddi-Brown.
And I am so proud to have been a part of the EMMY-nominated Season 2 of Only Murders in the Building!! It was so much fun being on set at the gorgeous United Palace Theatre in Harlem playing the Stage Manager in the cliffhanger episode that sets up Season 3 with Paul Rudd; produced and directed by Emmy nominees, Executive Producer John Hoffman and Director Jamie Babbit. And I’m seen in Season 3 episode 1, too!
Two particularly proud moments recently were playing Child Psychiatrist Gretchen Blandon on LAW & ORDER: SVU Season 22 episode 14 titled Post-Graduate Psychopath and as D.C. Hotel Manager helping Julian McMahon and Alexa Davalos to solve the murders on the Patriots episode of FBI: Most Wanted.
“I’m not one, but I play one on TV” :) -- Catch me as the infectious disease doctor on BULL, episode 417, The Invisible Woman. CBS.
Playing Patti Lupone’s curler-ed-up neighbor on Ryan Murphy’s FX TV series POSE Season 2 episode 7 entitled Blow was particularly rewarding to be a part of this iconic show. My 2018 TV season began as a grieving, but hopeful, widow in the new ABC dramedy, DECEPTION and ended with the recurring role of American S.T.A.R.T. negotiator on THE AMERICANS. Those 5 episodes aired on FX, directed by Executive Producer, Chris Long, Dan Attias, and Roxann Dawson.
In addition to my long-running role as Shannon O'Hara McKechnie on AS THE WORLD TURNS, I've also played the recurring role of Felicia Chatham on LAW & ORDER: SVU and have been seen on all the other LAW & ORDER shows, as well as SEINFELD, STAR TREK TNG, SPIN CITY, THE YOUNG RIDERS, EMPTY NEST, THE GOLDEN GIRLS, BLOSSOM, KNOTS LANDING among others.
OFF-BROADWAY In the beginning of 2020, I played the role of Bess Myerson to her real-life daughter Barra Grant in her autobiographical play Miss America’s Ugly Daughter. The Academy Award-winning screenwriter (the first female Oscar winner) Frances Marion was a role I treasured in Matthew Greene's play about the Armenian Genocide, Gregorian, directed by Jessica Dermody and also recently I appeared in the poignant and funny new play by Aly Miller called Bolt From The Blue directed by Paul Castro Jr. One of the more memorable stage experiences for me was as Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright in Austin Pendleton‘s Orson’s Shadow at the Barrow Street Theatre, directed by the Tony award-winning director David Cromer. For Dinner With Friends, I was named Best Featured Actress by the NJ press. While on “hiatus” during my many years as Shannon O’Hara McKechnie on As the World Turns I won the DramaLogue Award for Other People’s Money with Kevin Conway. I was Broadway-bound in Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women after touring the U.S. with John Houseman‘s prestigious classical troupe, The Acting Company. Keith Reddin‘s Black Snow, Misconduct Allowed, Quiet on the Set, and the Off-Broadway production of The Beckett Plays- Catastrophe directed by Alan Schneider.
REGIONAL THEATRE credits include starring as genetics professor and stem-cell researcher Dr. Guzman in the award-winning Sequence by the Arun Lakra, directed by the multi-talented Marshall Pailet at The 2019 Adirondack Theatre Festival, as Masha in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in 2015 at The Cleveland Play House, GEVA, and The Cape Playhouse and as Masha in Three Sisters, Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Olivia - Twelfth Night, Ann - All My Sons, Luisa - The Fantasticks, Louise - Gypsy, etc. (Check out my resume for more.)
FILMS In this Spring of 2023 I’ll be traveling to Seattle to film Homicide Detective Captain Roe Kyler in the film Dark Landings about the 1970’s military juntas in South America. 2022 films include the comedy, NYC Tips-N-Tricks by Loni Yotan directed by Amber Shaeffer and the witchy thriller SUMMONERS by Christine Nyland, directed by Terence Krey. I also had a lot of fun in THE JESUS ROLLS, written and directed by John Turturro as Tim Blake Nelson's wife in a scene with Tim, John Turturro and Bobby Cannavale, as well as indie films with up-and-coming stars Jack Kilmer in Jono Seneff's DIG and Maren Lord in Kevin Alexander's BOY AND TOYS; and as Josh Mostel's wife in Isaac Chehebar's THE AMAZING RAY produced by Rob Margolies. Past films include IMAX: THE JOURNEY WITHIN, QUICKSAND with Donald Sutherland directed by Michael Pressman, and Clint Eastwood’s THE EIGER SANCTION.
MY VOICE is heard on national TV and radio commercials, audiobooks, narrations, looping, the video game SAINT’S ROW 2 and DORA, THE EXPLORER.
TEACHING & COACHING ACTORS Through my company, Your SitCom And DramaCoach, I specialize in teaching/coaching Comedy, Multi-Camera Sitcom, and Soap Opera technique. I recently returned from Seattle's Playhouse Northwest where I taught my Master Class - Acting in SitComs and Comedies. I've also taught at The Actors Green Room, Stonestreet Studios/NYU, US Performing Arts Camp, Smith College, Weist-Barron, and The New York Film Academy, NY Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, the University of New Mexico, and Cornell University. I offer private online coaching in single sessions and bundles of sessions - Private Coaching Intensives & Private Coaching Anytime, and I offer One-Day and 4-Week On-Camera Comedy/SitCom Workshops with an emphasis on script analysis and rehearsal/performance technique. To learn more, click on this link.