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Standing On My Knees

"Wallace's turn as a woman who descends into insanity is touching and powerful. Wallace has clearly done her research on the medical condition of schizophrenia: She shows great versatility as her slightly zoned-out turn when she's a Thorazine zombie gradually shifts into edgy twitchiness."

Paul Birchall, Backstage

In fact, the body language of Catherine, the stinted speech and deliberate and calculated movements, are so realistic that one wonders what the actress is really like off the stage. Meg Wallace is just wonderful as the tormented unsure Catherine.
Gheri Rosen, NOHO Arts

Lucia Mad

"Meg Wallace plays a captivating Lucia...Wallace takes over the stage with daydreaming antics and a childlike demeanor due to her mental decline."

Erica Carey, The Scoop LA


"Meg Wallace’s performance as Lucia Joyce is captivating from beginning to end. Her ability to portray a character with such innocence, while at the same time, such madness, is impeccable. It is easy for the audience to feel as if, they themselves are going mad, while watching Wallace erratically prance around the stage, and listening to her, sometimes incoherent, dialogue."

Cecily Arambula, Socal.com



"Wallace finds the charm as well as the logic in the calculating but irrational Lucia and makes her madness credible."

Neal Weaver, Backstage



The Food Chain

"Wallace plays a published poet but looks more like a waitress. However, she has excellent command of her lines, especially a lengthy monologue detailing her pent up pain and agony."

Ingrid Wilmot, Will Call.com



Eleemosynary

"Wallace has captured the essence of the young teen with a wonderful combination of fluctuating innocence and maturity."

Jose Ruiz, Review Plays.com



To Carry the Child

"Meg Wallace gives an unforgettable performance as Ashley"

Marvin Vasquez, Campus Circle


"And the true gem of the play was Meg Wallace, who played Ashley.  The true quality of the star came out in the later acts when her sickness got the best of her"

Jamie Gall, Socal.com



How I Learned to Drive

"Meg Wallace acted brilliantly as she shrank and rose with the confusion of her character. Her lilting voice hesitated during the scenes of questionable conduct and you could feel the awkwardness penetrate the air"

Angela Gomez, Socal.com




The Square Root of Wonderful

"Playing the central character, Mollie, Meg Wallace gives a performance of great depth and grace. Mollie is poetic and lyrical without trying to be, and Wallace’s portrayal is similarly sincere and unselfconscious. Her lovely speaking voice is well-suited to the song-like Georgia drawl and her unusual cadences give the dialogue variety. Wallace exhibits star quality, likability, and is easy on the eyes."

George Downing, LA Opening Nights


"Wallace as Mollie marks her character’s vulnerability yet growing strengths"

Trish Ostrowski, Tolucan Times



Through A Glass Darkly


" I did admire the spooky sweetness of Wallace’s Karin"

LA TIMES, Margaret Gray


"with Wallace being a standout in the central role. She’s magnetic as she bounds from flirty to broken to madness, sometimes in the course of one scene."

EDGE, Bryan Buss



"Wallace offers a genuinely moving turn as the emotionally decomposing daughter"

LA WEEKLY, Paul Birchall


A Strange Disappearance of Bees

"Wallace shines again with an unmatched tenderness, innocence and unmitigated backbone"

NORTH HOLLYWOOD PATCH, Radomir Luza


"Wallace knows a thing or two about playing young women at various age levels.  In the aforementioned Eleemosynary she played a child through a teen and here she fluctuates from a young teenager to mature woman with equally believable poise."

REVIEW PLAYS, Jose Ruiz


"Meg Wallace expertly handles Lissa’s escape from her otherwise subservient existence when she attacks Callum over his reluctance to divorce his (unseen) wife."

Artsinla.com, Dink O'Neal


Blood Relations

"Meg Wallace is nothing short of amazing in this challenge where she has to play the actress playing Lizzie and the role of Lizzie herself.   Wallace takes the character from a sometimes daddy's little girl type to a ferocious adversary, determined to overcome any obstacles in her way.  Her brilliant red dress is symbolic of many issues in her life, not the least of which is the possibility that Borden could have been a real axe murderer.   She can jump from innocence to hate on a dime and keep you guessing where she will go next."

Jose Ruiz, Review Plays.com



"
The excellent cast... Meg Wallace as an actress brilliantly “performing” Lizzie"

Morna Murphy Martell, Theatre Spoken Here

" a heart-breaking portrayal of an isolated woman, plagued by feelings she is unable to express.  Wallace shines as this “dark Lizzie.” As time passes, the character becomes more and more unstable, and by the climax, her rage is tangible."

Kristina Lendrum, Auditionsinside.com


Lost Generation


"a dazzling portrayal of a woman slowly losing her mind, but still capable of brilliant monologues and razor sharp observations. This is no easy characterization, but Wallace pulls it off with vulnerability, virtue and vision. She gives voice to the voiceless and life to a spirit many consider antiquated and forlorn. In so doing,... nearly steals our hearts and souls as well."

NoHo Arts

"Meg Wallace inhabits the frenzy of Zelda Fitzgerald in a beautifully crafted performance on her path to insanity."

Susan Ruttan,
SFVMedia.com



Lady from the Sea

"a confident, convincing and compassionate turn. Wallace's trademark depth, sensitivity and intelligence"

Radomir Luza, NoHo Arts



City of Dreadful Night

"displays a sensitivity and boldness"
Radomir Luza


In The Balance

"Wallace offers the most layered turn in her dual roles as the depressed Cass and the maniacal Diane"

Paul Birchall, Stage Raw


 
"But it is Meg Wallace (Cass) who steals the show. The Ensemble founding member and longtime actress gives perhaps her most commanding and dominant portrayal yet as the wife opposite Brain Graves' college professor Matt.

The veteran stage and screen actress brings a vulnerability and sexuality to her work here reminiscent of Carol Baker in her heyday ("Baby Doll," "The Carpetbaggers").

Wallace's tenderness and charm are especially apparent in Act Two as her character's split personality (Cass/Diane) comes to the fore and Wallace's God-given acting instinct takes over, We are transported to a world of love and longing, gingerbread and ginger spice and ice cream and cheesecake where everything seems pretty, innocent and substantive, but nothing really is."

NoHoArtsdistrict.com

Long Way Down

"Meg Wallace plays Maybeline a mentally challenged adult who only has her focus of life on simple things and understanding what her family around her is saying and doing. Meg was perfect with the innocence and confusion and  as she played the trying to make sense of her slower cogitative abilities and feel safe. Her interactions with Lauri sparked everything from sympathy, to angst and genuine concern from the audience as to what her part will eventually end up being. No spoilers here, but the end, although somewhat forecasted, is still raw and shocking."

Lorenzo Marchessi, The Geek Authority

afterlife: a ghost story

"The wife, Danielle, is played with quiet beautiful sorrow by Meg Wallace"

Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros, NoHo Arts