Tom Reed is the Associate Artistic Director for Optimist Theatre. Tom has been an active part of the Milwaukee theatre community for the past seven years as both an actor and a director. Tom was last seen as Pistol in Quasi-Productions’ Henry V, a show he also helped give birth to. Tom received an MFA from the University of Illinois in 2001 and worked with The Utah Shakespeare Festival and the Court Theatre in Chicago before moving to Milwaukee. Tom is currently on the Theatre Faculty at Alverno College.