{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#341: Reed Birney: I Didn't Die","description":" Reed Birney has been working in film, television and theater for decades. Among his earliest credits are Albert Innaurato\u2019s Broadway comedy GEMINI in 1974 and Arthur Penn\u2019s FOUR FRIENDS in 1981.   A celebrated member of the New York theatre community, Reed has won a Tony and numerous other awards and nominations for plays including THE HUMANS, CASA VALENTINA, MAN FROM NEBRASKA, UNCLE VANYA, BLASTED, and CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION. Most recently he starred opposite his son Ephraim Birney in CHESTER BAILEY at Irish Rep, and in the highly successful run of Donald Margulies\u2019s LUNAR ECLIPSE at Second Stage, following a sold out run at Shakespeare &amp;amp; Company.   On television, he was recently seen recurring opposite Kim Kardashian in the most recent season of \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d. He was also recently seen in Peacock's &quot;Poker Face&quot;, and \u201cStar Trek: Strange New Worlds.\u201d Other TV credits include HBO\u2019s \u201cSuccession\u201d and Hulu\u2019s \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d, as well as the Apple TV+ series &quot;Home Before Dark&quot;. He is also well known for his performance as Vice President Donald Blythe in the Netflix series \u201cHouse of Cards&quot;. Next he will be seen in a series regular role on the upcoming season of \u201cSilo\u201d on Apple TV+, and also recently joined the cast of the limited series \u201cRabbit, Rabbit\u201d for Netflix.   In film, Reed received a Gotham Award nomination for his performance in the Bleecker Street feature MASS opposite Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton. The film\u2019s cast was also honored with the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. Other recent film credits include THE MENU opposite Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy, the Universal\/Blumhouse thriller THE HUNT, and Netflix\u2019s THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION and LOST GIRLS. Reed recently shot an independent feature THE STEEL HARP with Lois Smith and Cherry Jones, as well as BLUE FILM which debuted at Edinburgh Film Festival in August.  &amp;nbsp;We chat about almost quitting 3 times, regrets, 35 bad years &amp;amp; breakout roles \u2018later in life\u2019, embracing fear, being a LIFER, rejection &amp;amp; nasty things people say, spreading the ashes of one of his teachers, terrible plays, His Tony speech, good and bad agents, not working for a year + more!  Check out BLUE FILM (tickets currently out) https:\/\/obscuredreleasing.com\/films\/blue-film  ------------------------------------------- Follow @Funny in Failure on Instagram and Facebook  https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/funnyinfailure\/   https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/funnyinfailure\/ &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Funny In Failure","author_url":"http:\/\/funnyinfailure.libsyn.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41567445\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/202724550"}