Kathryn Reed is a retired porn actress, writer, director, and producer. She is the wife of famed porn director Alex de Renzy. She began working as a supporting (non-sex) actor in her husband's films starting in 1977, and eventually became a writer, director, and producer of (primarily) gay porn in the late 1980s through the late 1990s, mostly credited as R. Stilskin. She has also been credited as Carl Stanyon,