About Royce
Possessing an innate sense for both entertainment and competition, former NBA dancer Royce Reed has been in the spotlight nearly her entire life. As a professional dancer, actress, model and successful businesswoman, Royce Reed remains steady in her pursuits for success, never allowing anyone or anything to impede her goals. Currently the star of VH1’s hit new show, Basketball Wives, Royce is grabbing the nation’s attention by allowing the world to catch a glimpse of her fun, yet sometimes crazy lifestyle.
With a strong foundation of family around her, Royce has been strong-minded and driven from an early age. Born and raised in Orlando, FL, Royce grew up excelling in gymnastics, competitive cheerleading and dancing. Her love for sports also led her into track & field and flag football. During her time at Florida A&M University, Royce held the positions of cheerleading captain and president of the Mahogany Dance Theatre in Tallahassee. After graduating with a degree in Theatre Education and Humanities, Royce began traveling around the world as an actress, model and dancer.
As a professional dancer, Royce has performed across the country with the NBA teams the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic. More recently, Royce started her own new burlesque dance company, Fantashique, which performs for audiences all across Florida. The colorful combination of stunningly brilliant moves and beautiful women has made Fantashique an instant success.
In a word, Royce can be described as a firecracker, who is no stranger to confrontation. With a natural competitive spirit, Royce rarely bites her tongue or backs away from a challenge. On VH1’s Basketball Wives, which revolves around seven women who are linked to professional basketball players, Royce’s fiery passion has already made national headlines. As one of the most explosive characters on the show, Royce knows that her hardest task will be debunking the negative stereotype that the other wives have against team dancers.
Always keeping her priorities in line, Royce’s true passion is being a single mother to her two year-old son, Braylon, and takes great pride in raising him into a strong and respectable young man.
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Royce Reed is an Orlando native born to Robert and JuaNita Reed whom have been married 40+ years. With an older brother named Ryan she grew up in sports such as Track, Dance, Competitive Cheerleading, & Gymnastics. Throughout her life she gained an interest in playing the piano, modeling, acting and writing. Having written several poems, short stories and blogs in the past Royce Reed has now ventured into writing a Book Series called College Girls. As a Theatre Education and Humanities Major at Florida A & M University Royce decided to write this series to show the side of College Life that has yet to be told but needs to be taught.
Book one, slated to be out in March 2011 has received great reviews and is destined to be a huge success.
The College Girls Series dedication reads as follows:
This book is dedicated to the women whose stories were never told. To the women who gave up, gave in, or gave away pieces of themselves thinking they were alone. To all the young girls who are entering College Life… this book is for you, and this book will be some of you.
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Royce Reed has been dancing over 20 years and acting since the age of 10. A former gymnast and competitive Cheerleader Royce has a lot to bring to the table besides a smile and petite figure. A dancer for the Orlando Magic (’03-’04, ’05-’06) and the Miami Heat (’06-’07) Royce was given the chance to travel to 5 of the 7 Continents in the world and learn a lot about the different cultures. A former dancer at Seaworld Orlando, Busch Gardens and Holyland Theme Parks, her resume and training is far from mediocre. She has also been featured in a few music videos, danced background for artists like Nelly, LL Cool J to the old school Tone Loc, Royce is looking to further her career in Entertainment.
A Theatre Education and Humanities Major Royce has dreams of being on the big screen and the stage. With an upcoming 14 city tour for a stage play called Cheaters, Royce has been slated to play a main character amongst an Allstar cast. Written by script writer Dennis Reed (no relation) Royce was cast based on her demanding on screen and offscreen presence and intense training. She looks to use this opportunity as a stepping stone to greater and higher things to come.
Owner of her own Dance Company Fantashique, Royce has begun to take Orlando by storm with both intense and emotional routines performed by this extremely talented group of young women.
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Best known for being not only the dancer but also the little firecracker on VH1′s Basketball Wives, Royce has also been seen in other reality shows. Most coming from her 3 year stint as an NBA Dancer for the Orlando Magic and Miami Heat, Royce was featured in Making of the Magic Dancers as well as the 6 part series which followed them through boot camp. You may have also seen Royce in the Heat Dancer Documentary back in late 2006 or early 2007.
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