LOUISE FLORY

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as 'Heather' in Rebecca Gilman's lacerating play Blue Surge
Extant Arts Company
Winter 2010, The Wild Project NYC

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"The cast does a good job in creating touching and precise characterizations, and yes, the play does fly in this production. It will make you think, it will make you wonder, it will - hopefully - make you ask yourself some hard questions and maybe even find some answers."
Saviana Stanescu, NYTheatre.com

"Louise Flory as Heather has more of a spark to [her] acting."
Bina Sharif, Arts International

as 'Hannah' in Look After You
2009 NY International Fringe Festival, Soho Playhouse
(also my playwrighting debut)

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"The cast is wonderful, especially Flory in the lead, who shows no hint of self-consciousness over speaking her own words."
Duncan Pflaster, BroadwayWorld.com

"Louise Flory is on full exhibition here, both as a wickedly smart playwright and as a very generous actress. She's the center of the play, the person everyone else is responding to and bouncing off of, and she does all she can to let each person run the play. In one of the opening scene with her unbeknownst fiance, I was astonished at how much kindness she approached the characters."
Sean Williams, Gideon Productions LLC & seanrants.com

"She [Flory] also performs in the piece which is usually not my cup of tea, but I was pleasantly surprised with how well she separated herself as an actor and a playwright. All too often I see playwrights overdoing it. She maintains a very nice balance and deserves to be commended for that."
Michael Roderick, Small Pond Entertainment & OneProducerintheCity.com

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"Ultimately, Flory has the most difficult role of all, as both actress, playwright, and the focus of the show. She was able to maintain a light-heartedness that kept the play from being a 'movie of the week'... and she truly dove into the part with all of herself."
Katherine Stein, BitchyActress.blogspot.com

"sensitively rendered, offering a respite from the campy fare that makes up much of this [Fringe] fest."
Frank Scheck, New York Post

"Both Louise Flory (as Hannah) and Jason Altman (as Jake) push through their scenes with earnest hopefulness and distress."
Dan Kitrosser, NYTheatre.com

as 'Cebe Tate' in the World Premiere of The Oath
Maieutic Theatre Works
Spring 2009, ArcLight Theatre NYC

"Louise Flory’s Cebe takes the archetype of the 'hooker with a heart of gold' and makes it something complex."
Kayla Asbell, Show Business Weekly

"Flory, endowed with the most poignant lines of dialogue and the most heart-wrenching role,...play[s] Cebe with such pride and passion that even if she were getting hit, we would cheer her on as she went down."
Cindy Pierre, Theater Talk's New Theater Corps

"Even when Cebe [Louise Flory] bursts into a sarcastic cackle, there’s a manic, rageful element to her seeming lack of rules that awakens our curiosity."
Laura Paloite, OffOffOnline.com

"When Cebe [Louise Flory] addresses the audience,...her sermon is much more personal, and much more heartbreaking; for all her attitude she’s desperately trying to find out who she is and what she’s meant to do...we come to see that under all that flirting, giggling and fawning Cebe understands her father’s work perhaps more than her sister does."
Karen Tortora-Lee, Theatre Buzz

"The actors perform admirably, growing ever better as the play progresses."
Robert Windeler, Backstage.com

LOUISE FLORY

actor & writer