With more than ten years of experience as a director of photography, Reed Dawson Morano has shot numerous narrative features, documentaries, shorts, television series, reality shows, commercials, and music videos. In addition to theatrical release, Reed's work has aired on IFC, the Sundance Channel, FOX Sports, A&E, E! Entertainment, MTV, TLC, The Style Network, NBC, CBS, UPN, TruTV, HGTV, the NFL Network, Fine Living, MSG network, WWE, and the Speed Channel and has been showcased at film festivals around the world. She has extensive experience on all formats ranging from 35mm and Super 16 to 24P and HD.

Reed's latest feature, Frozen River, has been lauded with numerous awards, including the prestigious Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and Best Feature at the 2008 Gotham Awards; the film is up for Independent Spirit awards in seven catagories. Frozen River was released nation-wide in August by Sony Pictures Classics and is slated for DVD release in February. Reed's work on the film was the subject of an article in American Cinematographer magazine in August.

In addition to her feature work, Reed has spent the last few years as the Director of Photography for the 24p/16mm series Psychic Detectives currently airing on TruTV (formerly Court TV). She is also the DP for Don't Sweat It, which recently wrapped its sixth season on HGTV and HGHD, and Cover Shot, a 30-episode series airing on TLC hosted by supermodel Frederique van der Wahl.

Reed's work can be seen in the feature-length documentary Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa (shot on HD, 24p and Super16), which has been honored with numerous awards at festivals around the world, including the Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and a nomination for the 2007 Gotham Awards. The film's premiere at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival was accompanied by a rave review in Variety which praised the film's "stunning look." Off the Grid recently had its US broadcast premiere on the Sundance Channel. Reed recently wrapped production on Nowhere Kids, a narrative short based on the doc, in September.

See the trailer for Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa at stillpointpictures.com.

A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she was honored with awards in cinematography, Reed was later chosen by the faculty to be an adjunct professor in the cinematography department where she taught several classes. Reed currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Several of Reed's credits can be seen on her IMDB profile.