Select Reviews
Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge
Directed by James Dean Palmer
at Long Wharf Theatre with Douglas Denoff
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Not to be missed. James Dean Palmer’s first-rate direction makes this story as powerful now as it was in 1955. Every character shines. Miller would have found complete satisfaction in this production.
Sherry Shameer Cohen, Broadway World
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A strong, thought-through, artfully enveloping production.
Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courtan
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This could be the most arresting production of this problematic work I’ve seen in a lifetime. Unexpected, unconventional choices from the cast inhabit a unified heightened-reality that seems terribly right for the text.
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Nominated for 9 Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, winner Outstanding Play, Director, Set Design
The Love of the Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by James Dean Palmer
Red Tape Theatre
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"A futuristic, fully immersive, hyperstylized theatricality... Director James Palmer and his first-rate design team have conjured up a strange steam-punk universe of mannequins and dystopian violence. It's a helluva performance." - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
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Joseph Jefferson Award - Outstanding Director of a Play James Palmer​
Joseph Jefferson Nominations - Nominations: Outstanding Production of a Play, Sound Design, Choreography, Fight Choreography.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
The Gallery Players
Live Broadcast during quarantine
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​"Directors James Dean Palmer and Myah Shein took the show online with an all-female variant of Hamlet, and created perhaps the single most visually exciting production of the coronavirus era in 2020. Fronted by the debuting and dazzling artist Eliana Rowe as Hamlet, it was one of the shows that I not only was amazed by, but had to watch more than once." ~ Rodney Hakim, New York Shakespeare Year In Review 2020
Mouse in a Jar
by Martyna Majok
Directed by Will Davis
Red Tape Theatre
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"This is one of those pieces that upon completion sticks with the viewer and opens the mental door of connective questions that the only space to hold that many is an abyss of “why”. The characters are developed into a very breathably real way. The world of the show is set in a basement apartment-like setup. There is a constant edge on your seat feel of waiting. Waiting for escape on the mental and physical level, and waiting for HIM to arrive like clockwork." ~ Nicholas Ryan Lamb, Chicago Stage and Screen