Heather was invited to be a guest blogger on the
New York Innovative Theater Awards FULL OF IT blog.
You can read the blogs at the following links:
NYITA Full of IT Blog
Guest Blogger Heather Cunningham
Blog 1: Working Period
Blog 2: Doing the Research
Blog 3: GIfts from the Prop Gods
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"From the moment Heather E. Cunningham opens the play as Rosie, with a foreshadowing soliloquy of lost flowers, the audience is completely drawn into her world, her family's struggle, her pain, and ultimately her courage. Cunningham's is a performance of such strength, nobility, and beauty she literally left me breathless. Her stunning portrayal grows like a daffodil emerging from the snow until Rosie's inner struggle blossoms so fiercely, so blindingly clear, the empathy we experience is cathartic. I was left literally shaken... In the gut-wrenching climax, Cunningham and Forbrich tear your heart out. I was not alone in suppressing sobs." - Heather McCallister, nytheatre.com
"But the tragic star who attempts to be joyful and helpful, but ends the play weeping while consoling herself with one of the worst looking donuts ever seen, is Angel the chunky waitress, played by Heather Cunningham... Heather’s veneer of joy is outsized ,but the terrible teasing and abuse she absorbs from nearly every character, and hence from the world at large is palpable." - Wickham Boyle, theaterscene.net
"She is a gut-punch of an actor. Completely without concern for herself when she's in character, utterly subsumed by the demands of the script." - seanrants.com
"As
the deeply dissatisfied estranged wife of a Vietnam vet in Retro
Productions' presentation of Emily Mann's play [Still Life],
Heather E. Cunningham burst with working-class
outrage and resentment yet made you care for this lost soul without
begging for sympathy. And in an evening of three monologues, she played
off the other two actors, never showily but always eloquently."
Marc Miller,
Backstage East,
"Performances
to Remember, 2007."
(Listed among 22 performers from Broadway [Lauren
Ambrose: Romeo and Juliet, Deanna Dunnagan: August: Osage
County] and Off-Broadway [Allison Pill: Blackbird, Kelly
Kinsella: Kelly Kinsella Live! Under Broadway] alike.)
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