Margaret Reed plays the recurring role of Felicia Chatham on Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit and has guest starred on the other Law and Order shows as well as Seinfeld, Star Trek TNG, Spin City, The Young Riders, Empty Nest, The Golden Girls, Blossom, Knots Landing to name a few. Off-Broadway, she was Vivien Leigh in the highly acclaimed production of Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow at the Barrow Street Theatre. Ms. Reed was named Best Featured Actress for Dinner with Friends by the NJ press and romped through Central Park in Triumph of Love in the summer of the same year.
While on sabbatical during her eight years as Shannon O'Hara McKechnie on As the World Turns, she won the DramaLogue Award for her performance in Other People's Money at the Pasadena Playhouse. New York, Los Angeles, and World premieres of plays include O'Neill (Carlotta), Keith Reddin's Black Snow, Misconduct Allowed, Quiet on the Set, and the Alan Schneider directed Off-Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's The Beckett Plays.
Margaret received an M.F.A. from Cornell University and a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz , then toured the United States in a repertory of classical plays as a member of John Houseman's prestigious troupe The Acting Company. In many other regional theatres she went on to play leading roles in Twelfth Night, All's Well that Ends Well, The Mayor of Zalamea, All My Sons, The Fantasticks, Cactus Flower, Gypsy, and Godspell, etc. She has been an instructor at SFT since September 2001 and enjoyed terms teaching at Smith College and Cornell University.
Some of her films are Dress Rehearsal, Shelter Island, IMAX: The Journey Within, Quicksand, and The Eiger Sanction.
(March 2006)
ABOUT MAGGIE REED
It's a wonderful life