PRESS

Praise for Grounded

“The motif of that deep blue is vividly described by O’Neill throughout the production. I was enraptured by her performance. Her emotional range was impeccable, from the true glimmer I saw in her eyes to the rage sizzling on the contours of her face….
InterAct’s Grounded is great theater in its rawest form, and is as exquisite as the sky above.”
Matt Flocco, DC Metro Arts
“Kittson O'Neill is resplendent as the unnamed Pilot, whose reveries about her job are intoxicating.”
Mark Cofta, Broad Street Review

Praise for Arcadia

“I haven’t singled out performances in this large story with many leading characters – the acting is uniformly class-A.”
Howard Shapiro, WHYY

The Wolves

“Director Kittson O’Neil wrangles this pack of spirited actors into a beautifully synced ensemble through clear, focused storytelling. Dialogue overlaps, outbursts soar over peals of laughter at social missteps, and the characters literally are running around the stage. Through it all, O’Neill keeps the pacing brisk and direct. Nothing is thrown away; nothing is lost.”
– Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman

“In fact, the joy is omnipresent…King Lear is no easy entertainment, the outdoor setting gives no possibility for dumbfounding special effects, and two and a half hours could feel long in our fast-paced lives. Despite those factors, or perhaps precisely because of them, the audience I saw in Clark Park went all the way with the old King, to the tragic end.”
- Barbora Příhodová, TheatrePhiladelphia

“The cast in Kittson O’Neill’s devised piece delivered a trimmed-down, two-hour telling of Melville’s Captain Ahab (Robert Smythe) and his quest to avenge himself upon a monstrous whale that attacked his ship and took his leg….
The ensemble bursts into nautical songs, wrestles, fights, teeters over the edge of the stage as though it were a ship’s rail, and peers into the empty sea as from a high ladder. In moments both terrifying and jubilant, they evoke the camaraderie and precarious lives of brave men kept afloat from a watery doom by ingenuity, practiced habit, and dreams of fortune.” Jim Rutter, Philadelphia Inquirer

“There was a revealing moment on opening night that showed just how much this smart, stimulating production of Coriolanus is connecting with its audience. It came near the end of the play, when the citizens of Rome approach the senators to declare that even though they took part in protests led to Coriolanus being banished from Rome, they never really wanted her to be exiled. “Though we willingly consented to her banishment,” one of the citizens declares, “yet it was against our will.”
A man sitting on the lawn near me shouted, “Liar!” Laughter rolled through the crowd.” -Tim Dunleavy, DC MetroArts

“There are few works currently playing in Philadelphia that are as thought-provoking and engaging as the premiere of Emma Goidel’s A Knee That Can Bend, which opened last week at Theatre Exile’s Studio X. The newest production by Orbiter 3, Philly’s sustainable playwriting cohort, is deeply moving, emotionally gripping, and beautifully performed. In short, I’d argue it’s one of the best productions currently playing in the region.”
- Bryan Butler, Philadelphia Magazine