“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.”- HEDDA (GABLER), THEATER THAT MATTERS
“Valerie Redd’s Hedda is the perfect cipher, inscrutable and yet utterly compelling. It is hard to take your eyes off her.” - HEDDA (GABLER)- A WORK UNFINISHING
“She’s a fascination to watch. Valerie Redd is a dynamic Hedda.”- HEDDA (GABLER)- THEATER IN THE NOW
“Redd’s Hedda is less imperious and more grounded than some incarnations, while still suitably disdainful, and shows flashes of humanizing vulnerability.”- HEDDA (GABLER)- CULTURE CATCH
“Redd literally owns the stage…a gifted actor who seems at ease doing all the insanely silly, creative, unlikely and diverse actions called for in the script. And she does them with assuredness, swiftness and aplomb…Yet, in all this madness Redd appears completely in control of everything that happens and knows exactly where everything is on the ramshackle set. At one point she opens a small satchel brim-full of orange ping pong balls (taking the place of real apricots) that scatter all over the floor. Not a problem for Redd who never once steps on one or trips on the jumble of junk on the ground..'‘ - YOU/EMMA- MERCURY NEWS
“Redd, who won Best Solo Performance for "You/Emma" at New York's Innovative Theater Awards last year, carries the one-woman show from the moment she enters…The actress's tears become our tears, and we leave the theater seeing ourselves as Emma. Ambitious and more complicated than it looks, "You/Emma" is entertaining as well as thought-provoking.” YOU/EMMA- PALO ALTO ONLINE
“The cast has the crucial timing needed for a fast paced comedy.”- THE WONDER- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"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.”- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S CHLOROFORM DREAMS- THE HAPPIEST MEDIUM
“Set in 30’s noir, Redd is a gloriously wounded Daphne, the on-again off-again girlfriend on heroin.”- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S CHLOROFORM DREAMS- BROADWAY WORLD
“Valerie Redd gives a fine romantic performance…They are Hero and Leander via Bogart and Bacall, with a nod to Kurt and Courtney.”- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S CHLOROFORM DREAMS- NEW YORK THEATRE REVIEW
“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.”- SHORT LIFE OF TROUBLE- THEATRE IN THE NOW
“The absolute standout was Valerie Redd…as Desdemona, Redd was the role, embodying the passion, fragility, and naiveté that would be her undoing.”- OTHELLO- BROADWAY WORLD
“Valerie Redd’s Titania is somewhere between the nymphs of classical art and the sirens of the 1950’s silver screen.”- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM- THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE