“Valerie Redd’s Hedda is the perfect cipher-inscrutable and yet utterly compelling. It is hard to take your eyes off her as she sedately prowls her parlor like a lioness in her den. Every move, every gesture, is as calculated as the low purr of her voice.”

“Redd has so much inner life driving her throughout the play we hang on her every word. Often, it is what she doesn’t say that is the most interesting.”

“She’s a fascination to watch. Valerie Redd is a dynamic Hedda.”

“The Nordic-remote Valerie Redd [is] a Hedda who can’t seem to believe what’s happened, is happening, will happen. She keeps touching herself, carefully, as if to establish she’s real...Redd’s Hedda destroys lives; brandishing pistols and burning manuscripts, betraying some people, belittling others, encouraging great gestures and kvetching about hair, she is at once petty and grand.”

“Redd’s Hedda is less imperious and more grounded than some incarnations, while still suitably disdainful, [and] shows flashes of humanizing vulnerability.”

“The cast has the crucial timing needed for a fast paced comedy.”

“…[Redd is] enthralled to sensual abandon... she is at once the mythical Daphne, and the Sleeping Beauty, in love with a solitary dreamworld..the laurels should be lavished and shared here by all involved in this courageous production.”

“Set in 30’s noir, the cast is great—-Redd is a gloriously wounded Daphne…[the] on-again off-again girlfriend on heroin.”

“Valerie Redd gives a fine romantic performance…(they are Hero and Leander via Bogart and Bacall, with a nod to Kurt and Courtney.)”

“When you have a company of actors who can not only sing, but sing in such stunning harmonies, you can’t help but fall…The music is bound to win you over and beg for a cast album to be recorded.”

“The absolute standout [was] Valerie Redd…as Desdemona, Redd was the role, embodying the passion, fragility, and naiveté that would be her undoing.”

“Redd is successful and engaging.”

“Valerie Redd’s Titania is somewhere between the nymphs of classical art and the sirens of the 1950’s silver screen.”

“smart and winning…Redd is part ingenue, part woman of the world.”