How To Eat an Orange
"Moving among these images of the past, Pizzi furnishes a confident, poignant performance, artfully conjuring Bernardi at different ages and in different emotional and historical contexts while retaining an awareness of Bernardi as a survivor through even the happy recollections."
— John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards
Photo Credit: Steven Pisano
"When Paula Pizzi, as Claudia, reminds us that she is telling us this story ‘because of the circumstances’, there is an implicit nudge, the glint in her eye saying, you know what I’m talking about. The performance uses every opportunity it can to elevate the text and educate the context."
— Rita Frances Welch
FRACTURED
by Levy Lee Simon
Workshop production at New Circle Theater Company
Paula Pizzi and Michael Vincent Carrera
Burning Cities
by Simon Fill
Workshop production at New Circle Theater Company
Paula Pizzi and Luis Carlos de La Lombana
Devil of Choice
“Jarringly enthusiastic to begin with, Pepper (Paula Pizzi) is played brilliantly, her ignorance becoming achingly painful to endure as the affair develops.”
— Sasha Abrahams, August 2019
FACE CREAM
"...an attempt to explore with humor the subject of aging and our ideals of feminine beauty, and two fine actors, Bruce MacVittie and Paula Pizzi, give it their best shot"
—Theatermania
underneathmybed
"The mother Lizbel is elegantly played by Paula Pizzi"
—Scott Mitchell
Where’s My Money?
“There is no weak link in this fine ensemble. The contrasts between the passionate but happy-go-lucky Gottesman and the by-the-numbers, career-minded Pizzi in the opening scene are marvelous; Pizzi's demeanor shifts perceptibly in the following scene as she confronts Henry. We've seen both of these actors doing good work before (Gottesman in Unmerciful Good Fortune, Pizzi in Wit), but their performances here exceed out expectations.”
—Les Gutman
WIT
“The director Derek Anson Jones could not have cast the role with a more profound sense of where the play's conscience lies. Ms. Pizzi's Susie is a lamb until her patient requires a tiger, and it is when this actress crosses over to fierceness in the climactic scene that ''Wit'' gives full vent to the outrages against the soul that some doctors may perpetrate in the name of fixing the body.”
— Peter Mark, 1998
Clean
“The same sensibility marks the deeply felt performances, particularly from Ms. Pizzi and Mr. Quintero, an adult actor who plays childhood without cuteness or condescension. And Ms. Daniele's gentle, lucid direction steers the evening away from its potential for lurid melodrama.”
— Ben Brantley, April 1995
