A quick scan of Noah Reid鈥檚 resume reveals that he鈥檚 pretty much already done it all. He made his professional stage debut in Toronto as Chip in Beauty and the Beast. He spent seven years as the voice of the title turtle in the animated television series Franklin. He has a long list of film and tv credits, and recently wooed millions of fans while courting Dan Levy鈥檚 character David in the final three seasons of the sitcom Schitt鈥檚 Creek. The multi-faceted performer is also a singer-songwriter with three album releases under his belt.
Reid is now appearing in the ensemble cast of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company鈥檚 production of Tracy Letts鈥� The Minutes, playing a newly elected city council member in the fictional mid-America town of Big Cherry. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just a bit of a dream,鈥� he says, 鈥渕aking my Broadway debut in this play, with these people, with this company.鈥�
The actor confesses that even with all of his successes, there were some downs when he was building the ups of his career. 鈥淚t鈥檚 taken me a while to get to the level that I鈥檝e always wanted to play at,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 think I thought about it as things I wanted to achieve in my life and setting goals, and when that stuff started to not happen or not exactly happen in the way that I had drawn it up, that felt really disappointing.鈥�
His thinking has shifted, though, to be more about the kind of work that he gets to do, and who he gets to do it with.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not going to surprise anyone for me to say鈥his is a complex time. The world we鈥檙e living in is so cacophonous. It鈥檚 so busy. It鈥檚 so hard to keep anything in our heads for very long and we鈥檙e easily distracted, so I like projects that allow for us to sit in some kind of reflection of this world that we鈥檙e inhabiting," Reid says. 鈥淚 love the challenges of, ultimately, the examination of what it is to be a human being in this world. I mean that鈥檚 kind of what artists have been reflecting on for centuries and generations and we just keep getting more complex as a species. There鈥檚 lots to mine.鈥�
鈥淚 just want to continue to do work that challenges me and that I get to surround myself with thoughtful, intelligent, compassionate, and brilliant artists. You know, I think that can be the goal.鈥�
