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OVATION AWARD
World Premiere of 1001 by Jason Grote
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
Award-Winning short
Security by Israel Horovitz
directed by Matthew Linnell
OverRuled by Shoja Azari
Directed by Shirin Neshat
Like I Say
Written & Directed by Len Jenkin
Five Kinds of Silence
By Shelagh Stephensen
Directed by Tlaloc Rivas
Damascus by David Greig
directed by Brooke Ciardelli
IRNE AWARD for Best Solo Performance
Nine Part of Desire by Heather Raffo
Directed by Carmel O'Reilly
BORN WITH TEETH - Richard III
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Ron Russell
INTERVIEWS
CULTURADAR, interview by Nella Vera
Zack Calhoon's PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW
Haren Young's Interview regarding DRUID PEAK
"DRUID PEAK" listed #4 in 12 Incredible Movies about Wyoming You Need to See.
ACCIDENTAL FESTIVAL at The Roundhouse
"MUSE OF FIRE" The Globe The Stage★★★★
"Joffrey is pitch-perfect expressing the confident and persuasive voice of Scheherazade, letting her father, the vizier, have it over his inaction concerning the king’s murderous obsession. Grote’s plot device of double-casting the original players with modern counterparts allows Joffrey to deepen Scheherazade’s character beyond the original strict narrative-framing function. She also plays Dahna to heartfelt effect– wrestling with Palestinian politics, traditional Muslim values, 9/11 and online romance."
“Lanna Joffrey's virtuosically varied performance…creates detailed, precise portraits of each character.” ----The Boston Globe, Nine Parts of Desire
“Seamlessly moving from one personality to the next, the lone actress commands full attention center stage. Lanna Joffrey shines with her versatility. She rounds out an impressive total of nine roles in an hour and a half, and perfects each accent, switching from Iraqi to American to British instantly. Her characters span every age, from a child to an elderly woman, and she succeeds in bringing each personality alive.” Tufts Observer, Nine Parts of Desire
“Lanna Joffrey gives us a nicely grounded, and unexpectedly merciful, Transito Soto.”
Westword, The House of the Spirits
“Lanna Joffrey touches the heart with every character she creates.”
---The Record, Metamorphoses
“Her performance is breathtaking. Not a moment is wasted and each of Joffrey’s transparent expressions brings us closer to the everyday madness of these women’s lives.”----The Boston Herald,
Nine Parts of Desire
“A delightful series of colorful depictions with strong performances from Drew Cortese, Lanna Joffrey and Jeanine Serralles.
---Variety, The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits by Caridad Svich
Directed by Jose Zayas
Arthur Miller Centennial Conference:
A Re-Imagined Syrian-Moslem,
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
The Profane
by Zayd Dohrn
Directed by Kip Fagan
"Carmen may be the most interesting character here, partly because Ms. Joffrey instantly rebuts, with assertiveness and humor, any possible presumption that this modest woman in a head scarf is her husband’s doormat. All sorts of preconceptions fall away once these very different people are in a room together, with the happiness of their children at stake."
NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK
The Soulless Ones
Written & Directed by
Oscar Blustin & Anna Soderblom
★★★★ Telegraph
I CALL MY BROTHERS
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
director Tinuke Craig
GATE THEATRE
★★★★
The Times
★★★★
Reviews Hub ★★★★
Evening Standard
