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BONILLA
BARBARA
On Your Feet
How to Break in a Glove
City Theatre, Adrienne Arsht Center
Dir. Gladys Ramírez
“Barbara Bonilla is outstanding as a grandmother in failing health while hiding a family secret.”
“As Bonilla deftly portrays her, Aleida can be commanding and strict. With a sharp voice and confident stance, Bonilla punctuates Aleida’s no-nonsense demeanor by pointing. But, she also reveals Aleida’s playful and even seductive side in a scene with her husband.”
- Miami Theatre Critic
- Gary Schweikhart
Carbonell Awards, Inc.
On Your Feet
Riverside Theatre
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
Actor’s Playhouse, FL
Dir. David Arisco
"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
GableStage
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
Empire Stage Theatre, FL
Dir. Deborah Kondelik
"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
GableStage
Dir. Julianne Boyd
"“Barbara Bonilla is an absolute hoot as the adventure-hungry Louise, later pivoting with aplomb to the uproariously desperate Elaine, a woman who will stop at nothing to reel in a new widower”"
"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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