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On Your Feet

Dir. Marcia Milgrom-Dodge
 

"As Gloria's abuela (grandmother) Consuelo, her biggest champion, Barbara Bonilla is an amusing and endearing presence. She had the opening night audience eating out of her hand from her first appearance until her last."

- Vero News
 

Sweet Goats and Blueberry Señoritas

"Bonilla as Marilyn is sorrowful, furious and, in one remark about a Whole Foods gift certificate, perfectly hilarious."

- Christine Dolen
 

"Barbara Bonilla authentically plays the hard exterior but soft centered mother character with grace and humanity."

- Raquel V. Reyes, Florida Theatre on Stage

El Huracán

Dir. Damaso Rodriguez

"As the family's matriarch, Barbara Bonilla scrunches her face into believable expressions of pain mixed with confusion. Bonilla walks slowly and bends over to suggest that her character has a hunched back. In a well-rounded performance, Bonilla also conveys clarity during her character's theatrical magic."

- Aaron Krause, Miami Artzine
 

"Bonilla, seen last season in GableStage’s “Boca,” gets a far deeper and more intricate role as Valeria...her portrait of a woman in the last stages of Alzheimer’s is endearing, but as her face goes blank, she becomes utterly heartbreaking. Overhearing one audience member say after the show, "Valeria, me rompió  el alma" ("Valeria broke my soul")."

- Theatre Critic

The Savannah Sipping Society

"Other cast standouts include Bonilla, whose dark eyes blaze and voice thunders and sometimes growls as the boisterous MarlaFaye. Don't mess with her. She can sure sound savage when she talks about exacting revenge against her cheating husband."

- Aaron Krause
 

Boca

Dir. Julianne Boyd

"Bonilla, a New York and regional actor who is making her stage debut in the state, gets every comedic flourish wielded by ex- New Yorker Elaine just right."

- Christine Dolen
 

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