Selected Press
"An extremely gifted talent! One of the most original new voices to come out
of New York City in recent years! Her warmth, intelligence and killer wit allow
her to voice ideas and feelings that most people would be afraid to even admit
to, much less put on stage. She wins audiences over every time by bringing
out the humanity in even the most outrageous situations. People leave her shows
understanding themselves better. Plus she is a champion for sexy mommies everywhere!"
- Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, the Moth
BabyLove, written and performed by Christen Clifford, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“BabyLove is the most important piece of feminist
theatre since The Vagina Monologues.”
- kulturevermitterlin
“Clifford is a wonderful storyteller and is so funny, and she performs with
such truth and authenticity, that by the end no one in the audience doesn’t
want to be her little one, two year old son Felix, whom she is still breastfeeding.”
- Mladina, (the Eastern European equivalent of The Village Voice)
Christen Clifford in Monster at Classic Stage Company
“Christen Clifford … brings a bawdy edge to a role that suggests
her ill fortune is a kind of divine retribution. The performance makes
a cleverly subtle echo of the story's query into the nature
of God.”
-New York Times
17 Guys I F*cked, written and performed by Christen Clifford, at the Culture Project 2003
Christen Clifford’s excellent show … provides much
honestly and humor. …an emotionally moving, sexual coming of
age story.”
-Village Voice
"17 Guys…" makes Sex and the City seem tame and lame. Christen
Clifford's wit, wisdom and wantoness are not to be missed.
- Lee Gundersheimer, NYU
Christen Clifford creates a world from her experiences, not
only about sex but about how our lives become layered with loss and
antic comedy. The stories build. The stakes enlarge, until we see a
complex human being asking smart questions about desire she knows can't be answered.
This is a brave, candid exploration, a spill that reveals
and at the same time remains artfully restrained--like the
most memorable kinds of encounters.
--Laurie Stone, Flux Factory
Christen Clifford in Oklahoma City the Boston Center for the Arts
Christen Clifford gives a performance that requires physicality and
personal courage; the actress tears up the stage space…she adds emotions
and textures … Clifford is a comic highlight, breezy
and inventive and has… great emotional heft.
- Boston Globe
Christen Clifford …is wonderful! She brings Mary both honestly
and poignantly to life.
-In Newsweekly
Christen Clifford is simply amazing as Mary.
-Bay Windows
Christen Clifford is amazingly focused, funny and terrifying
as Mary.
-Boston Herald
Christen Clifford in The Erotica Project, Joe’s Pub
Performed with delicious candor by the outrageous
Christen Clifford!
-Art in America
Christen Clifford …generates heat!
-New York Newsday
Christen Clifford's knowingly coy performance of "Soapbox"...is
executed with just the right amount of tease and irony."
-The Australian