The Panties, The Partner and The Profit
..whose wealthy and older mistress is somewhere on a spectrum from Cruella de Vil to the demonic Alex of "Fatal Attraction" and who is played to brittle, serpentine perfection by Julia Coffey.
- Dorothy Chansky, The New York Theater Wire
- Dorothy Chansky, The New York Theater Wire
LABOUR OF LOVE
This is adorable primarily because Julia Coffey is dazzling as the fast-talking Jean, whose spirit gets crushed by party compromises as much as it does by any prospects of love.
Coffey is the center in a role that has Emma Thompson written all over it, razor-sharp and daft as a bubble, with a low but discernible undercurrent of sexiness that's right where Graham's wonky story needs it.
Coffey's performance rises to every wry, elated or bitter challenge of her colorful, soul-of-the-party role.
- Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
Julia Coffey, who is pretty much in every scene, steals the show with her impeccable comic timing as David's no-nonsense, salt-of-th-earth adviser. A bit bawdy adn dynamic, she is also the cast member with the ability to show emotionally and physically who her character is at different points of time in the play.
- Diana Metzger, Theatermania
Coffey is the center in a role that has Emma Thompson written all over it, razor-sharp and daft as a bubble, with a low but discernible undercurrent of sexiness that's right where Graham's wonky story needs it.
Coffey's performance rises to every wry, elated or bitter challenge of her colorful, soul-of-the-party role.
- Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
Julia Coffey, who is pretty much in every scene, steals the show with her impeccable comic timing as David's no-nonsense, salt-of-th-earth adviser. A bit bawdy adn dynamic, she is also the cast member with the ability to show emotionally and physically who her character is at different points of time in the play.
- Diana Metzger, Theatermania
RICHARD II
What makes Davis McCallum's Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival production of "Richard II" noteworthy is not that Julia Coffey has been cast as Shakespeare's unhappy king, or even that her performance is so distinctive: it is, rather, Mr. McCallum's staging. As crips, legible and full of import as a well-written headline, his "Richard II" cuts straight to the heart.
Ms. Coffey, who first came to my attention when she appeared in Mr. McCallum's 2014 Mint Theater revival of John Van Druten's "London Wall," is as home with both aspects of Richard II's cloven personality, pivoting from arrogance to desperation so smoothly as to suggest that both qualities are opposite sides of the same coin of character.
- Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Ms. Coffey, who first came to my attention when she appeared in Mr. McCallum's 2014 Mint Theater revival of John Van Druten's "London Wall," is as home with both aspects of Richard II's cloven personality, pivoting from arrogance to desperation so smoothly as to suggest that both qualities are opposite sides of the same coin of character.
- Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
Hedda Gabler
A storm is descending upon Washington and in the eye of it is Julia Coffey as the titular anti-heroine... Coffey is mesmerizing. Her Hedda is a potent cocktail of narcissism, disillusionment, jealousy and manipulation... Coffey drives this production with the best of nuanced performances - one that is perfectly measured and explosive at the right times...the audience never takes their eyes off her.
- BroadwayWorld.com
Julia Coffey is stunning as Hedda, demonstrating the many different sides of Hedda's personality. Coffey's Hedda is sweet, cunning, shrewish, gentle, and selfish, and she makes it clear why some men are attracted to her.
- TheaterMania
Julia Coffey give a magnetic performance, inhabiting Hedda in all her maddening contradictions and making it look easy.
- Talkin' Broadway
Julia Coffey as Hedda shows she is up for such X-treme emotional sports. She ricochets between melodrama and black humor in a triumphant performance. One moment she is brimming over with tears, the next enticing other characters in an intense cobra-weaving-and-spitting seduction, then pouncing and cutting off the other characters with impeccable comic timing. She makes us understand that there is nothing her character won’t do to “feel” something in her life. She sprawls, coils, yells, strokes, hurls herself upon others, and curls in a fetal position cradling the manuscript of the man she has just sent off to kill himself.
- DC Theatre Scene
A storm is descending upon Washington and in the eye of it is Julia Coffey as the titular anti-heroine... Coffey is mesmerizing. Her Hedda is a potent cocktail of narcissism, disillusionment, jealousy and manipulation... Coffey drives this production with the best of nuanced performances - one that is perfectly measured and explosive at the right times...the audience never takes their eyes off her.
- BroadwayWorld.com
Julia Coffey is stunning as Hedda, demonstrating the many different sides of Hedda's personality. Coffey's Hedda is sweet, cunning, shrewish, gentle, and selfish, and she makes it clear why some men are attracted to her.
- TheaterMania
Julia Coffey give a magnetic performance, inhabiting Hedda in all her maddening contradictions and making it look easy.
- Talkin' Broadway
Julia Coffey as Hedda shows she is up for such X-treme emotional sports. She ricochets between melodrama and black humor in a triumphant performance. One moment she is brimming over with tears, the next enticing other characters in an intense cobra-weaving-and-spitting seduction, then pouncing and cutting off the other characters with impeccable comic timing. She makes us understand that there is nothing her character won’t do to “feel” something in her life. She sprawls, coils, yells, strokes, hurls herself upon others, and curls in a fetal position cradling the manuscript of the man she has just sent off to kill himself.
- DC Theatre Scene
As You Like It, Baltimore Center Stage
Rosalind's quick wit and love-drunkenness flow beautifully in Coffey's shining turn.
- The Washington Post
Rosalind's quick wit and love-drunkenness flow beautifully in Coffey's shining turn.
- The Washington Post
As You Like It, Santa Cruz Shakespeare
"Julia Coffey is an ever-more delightful Rosalind, infectiously confused, then irresistibly slipping more deeply in love. Her banter with Great Wohlrabe's no less acute Celia sets the play's tone. Her cross-dressed wooing of Dan Flapper's worthy swain of an Orlando leavens affecting romance with sharp comic second thoughts."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Julia Coffey is an ever-more delightful Rosalind, infectiously confused, then irresistibly slipping more deeply in love. Her banter with Great Wohlrabe's no less acute Celia sets the play's tone. Her cross-dressed wooing of Dan Flapper's worthy swain of an Orlando leavens affecting romance with sharp comic second thoughts."
- San Francisco Chronicle
LONDON WALL
"Ms. Coffey is smashing. When Miss Janus toys with Mr. Brewer, the screwball sparring has tiny daggers and bits of broken glass in it."
-The New York Times
"The production's standout performance, however, belongs to Julia Coffey, who engenders profound pathos as she gently puts a telephone receiver in its cradle and realizes that the secret dream she had for her future has just evaporated. Hers is the performance that will stay with you for days."
- Theatermania
"Ms. Coffey is smashing. When Miss Janus toys with Mr. Brewer, the screwball sparring has tiny daggers and bits of broken glass in it."
-The New York Times
"The production's standout performance, however, belongs to Julia Coffey, who engenders profound pathos as she gently puts a telephone receiver in its cradle and realizes that the secret dream she had for her future has just evaporated. Hers is the performance that will stay with you for days."
- Theatermania
MAPLE AND VINE
"There’s a rich tension and a promise of mystery behind Coffey’s wifely supportive smiles and thoroughly domestic self-confidence that makes you want to return after the intermission. It pays off with the most fully developed character and personal drama in the play." -San Francisco Chronicle
"Julia Coffey and Jamison Jones bring the most satisfaction for audiences as the couple in charge of the 1955 community. The two are the picture of 1955 as they play off each other’s lines…their charms are enough to convince the audience of the appeal of the community…” -Broadwayworld.com
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ONCE IN A LIFETIME
"Performances that seem to have stepped right out of the films of the era. Coffey’s lovably sharp-quipped, cynical May is the prime example, anchoring the show as the brains and prime love interest of the vaudeville trio.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Coffey delivers May’s lines with a sharp punch just this side of Katherine Hepburn circa Stage Door in 1937. She’s delightfully wry.” -Theater Dogs: Bay Area Backstage |
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MERCHANT OF VENICE “Part of it is due to Coffey’s glistening Portia, all self-confident wit and poise, who imbues the deepest part of Bassanio’s despair with optimism and purpose.” -DC Theatre Scene “Julia Coffey plays Portia with equal power and authority. In a role that’s both ridiculous and sublime, Coffey manages both with great style.” -Washingtonian |
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THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD
“Coffey's brittle and bright performance as a woman cornered by her circumstances is simply wonderful.” -Theatermania "This is hands down Julia Coffey’s show. As Mrs. Holroyd, she has us from the very beginning of the piece; her dignity and strength carry the show with grace.” -nytheatre.com |
PYGMALION
“Coffey lights Eliza from within, capturing both her desperate need to be accepted and her innate sense of dignity.”
-San Jose Mercury News
“One of the most delightfully cheeky Elizas I’ve seen in a long time, the sort of spunky woman Shaw loved." -Metro Santa Cruz
ROMEO AND JULIET
Lamos has elicited superb portrayals from his actors - particularly Juliet (Coffey, in her formidable Chicago debut)... [Her] independent spirit and sharp intelligence are clearly and consistently defined throughout - and Coffey is not just vivid, but has a masterful way with Shakespeare’s language... This Juliet never flinches.” -Chicago Sun -Times
TWELTH NIGHT
“This production’s heart and soul belong to Julia Coffey, who luminously modulates the emotional tides of the plucky shipwrecked heroine.” -LA Times
MACBETH
“Julia Coffey gives an equally thrilling performance as Lady Macbeth, making exciting, unexpected choices.” -Backstage West
AS YOU LIKE IT
“Delightfully shifting from demure maiden to roistering youth, Julia Coffey’s Rosalind is a standout.” -LA Times