The Moors by Jen Silverman | The Lir, Dublin | Photos: Sasha Pereira
A(U)NTS! by Zoë Geltman | The Brick, Brooklyn NY | Photos: Kevin Frest
"13 Off Broadway Shows to See in May" by Elisabeth Vincentelli for The New York Times
“A(U)NTS! at The Brick…is a dropped ice cream cone of a play: sweet and sticky and lil’ bit …infested. It’s thrilling to learn Geltman is such a serrated satirist and that Sirna-Frest is such a precise directorial match for the material. All in all it’s a perfect summer cocktail: light, breezy, sour, sad.” - Helen Shaw
"A(U)NTS! Up Close" by Helen Gallagher for Culturebot:
"Zoë's cathartically oozy and tickly new play... sensitive commentary on the maze that is modern feminism... With her uncanny ability to capture highly-specific instances and deeply darkly kept-secret feelings, along with her bravery to really go there with descriptions of the body and all of its innate gore, Zoë imagines a world where women can be disgustingly free... In some ways, A(U)NTS! is remarkably subtle and intellectual. In others, it’s totally slapstick and maximalist."
"Bristling with wit, goofiness, and heartbreak delivered by young dream casts in resourceful, elegant stagings... you’ll see just a really high degree of comic acting, crisp staging and inventive design (on small budgets), and Geltman... write[s] with a giddy spontaneity and a love of [her] characters that doesn't preclude pain or even the odd flash of cruelty." -Davis Cote
"Review: A(U)NTS! at The Brick" by Loren Noveck for Exeunt
"A fantasia of woman- and antkind anchored by three strong performances... powerhouse three-person cast... it’s a wild and entertaining ride."
PUFFY HAIR by Zoë Geltman | Vancouver Fringe, The Tank NYC, SFX Festival, The Pit and Uncanny Valley
"Zoë Geltman's 'PUFFY HAIR' transforms beyond stand-up comedy to shocking and delicious intimacy... [the audience is] invited into Geltman's extravagant mind palace of feminine guts and glory... she zips and bops around the space, capturing a caricatured showman's energy akin to Joan Rivers meeting Liza Minnelli... The writing plays like a vigorous plea for intimacy with herself, a self-deprecating, self-aware routine as investigative and piercing as anyone's truest inner monologue talking to themselves in a mirror." -Nataline Rine, Onstage Blog
"Add wigs, impromptu handstands, plenty of always-relatable self-loathing, and a fascination with everyone from Joan Rivers to Bob Fosse and you've got something that sounds almost as awesome as lunch with Sarah Silverman. Or Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls." - The Georgia Straight
"A Fabulously Feral Feminist Fantasia... with Farts," Culturebot
Malicious Compliance by AJ Brady | WP Theater, NYC | Photos Marina Baranova
IceBand adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s Iceman Cometh | HERE Arts Center, NYC | Photos Gaia Squarci
“sonically gorgeous” -The New York Times
"As audience members took a shot with a character’s name on it, the band launched into songs that ranged from hardcore rock to indie ballad to cheery duet and a lot of things in between. As I nodded my head along to the music, I found myself really wishing that Sirna-Frest would transform more plays in this fashion, and I began to imagine what that might sound like." Bess Rowen, Huffington Post. She goes on to write an entire song in the review featuring lines like "Fourteen original songs from Chapman and Sirna-Frest, Make this Act I, in my opinion, better than the rest"