Reed A. Albee

Reed Adalbert Albee (8 September 1885 – 2 August 1961) was an American businessman.

He was the adoptive father of the playwright Edward Albee and a member of a prominent East Coast family who owned several theaters.

Albee married Louise Holmes Williams, an actress, on 10 June 1914.

She worked at Jay Thorpe, Inc. at 24 West Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan.

They moved to Larchmont, New York and adopted a son, whom they named Edward Franklin Albee III (1928-2016).