2002
2009
REVIEWS
“ “Cripple Billy marks the imposing professional debut for Karl Gregory, a former SU Drama student
noted for roles in Cloud 9 and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Keeping his hands and feet in
paralyzed lock and his voice in an authentic accent seem easy enough. Yet Gregory’s more
impressive accomplishments are in switching the tone away from the brusque dark humor to
Billy’s own, nearly invisible anguish, or his muted scream at yet another of Helen’s brutal rejections.”
James MacKillop
Syracuse New Times
February 2002
“Wendy Dann has brought from
Syracuse, recent acting grad Karl Gregory, whose Billy is surely
everything that McDonagh could wish... Beauty in deformity, dignity in disgrace - Gregory’s splendid
(read: don’t miss it) performance, like the role of Billy itself, pushes us emotionally this way and that.”
Barbara Adams, Ithaca Journal
February 2002
“Karl Gregory does a
hilarious Truffaldino
(a startling change following his mute cameo in The Chairs),
battling and wooing his own stomach with the intensity of a
stage romance.”
Evan Darwin Winet
Ithaca Journal
July 2002
“It’s not just the elephant head or the eye makeup but the body is in constant liquified motion. It’s a choice and showy role for lithe, young Karl Gregory, the recent
SU graduate who has become
one of the Kitchen Theatre’s
favorite character players.”
James MacKillop
Syracuse New Times
January 2003
“Ganesha himself (played by the perennial star of the Kitchen stage,
Karl Gregory)...”
January 2003
“...Karl Gregory (another handsome young man who knows how to move).”
February 2003
Evan Darwin Winet
Ithaca Journal
“The air of a true
ensemble effort is the
most compelling element of this production.
The second most compelling element is the physical and facial comedy of
Karl Gregory’s Truffaldino.”
Caissa Willmer
Ithaca Times
July 2002
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“Mommy Claire (played to absolute perfection by Karl Gregory)
exacts his need for redemption from his past by “raising” his thirty year old brother, Billy, as a
three year old boy. Massive kudos to cast and crew - when I feel more like a voyeur than an
audience member, I know something is being done right. “Oatmeal” is thus far my personal pick
for the very best of Fringe.”
Jennifer Davis, Conveyor.com
Cincy Fringe Festival 2008
Best Male Bartender: Karl Gregory
“You get a great bartender and he
moves away. At least that’s the story with Karl Gregory who’s now attending Brown University. His boss says,
‘You’d need a whole issue of the paper
to talk about what made him a
great bartender.’”
Best Of Ithaca, Ithaca Times
2007
The Glass Menagerie
“As beyond-the-breaking-point Tom,
Karl Gregory, lean and tense, is a twisted cord of restrained energy, searing when released.”
Barbara Adams, Ithaca Times
August 2006
After Ashley by Gina Gionfriddo
“Gregory’s performance is the show’s main highlight. The 27-year-old actor plays a witty, uncensored teenager with boyish charm. He captures audience members from the beginning and leaves them laughing, crying and disturbed as they follow him through his journey.”
Laurel Janeen Smith, The Ithacan
March 2007
BecauseHeCan by Arthur Kopit
“...director Nicholas Cotz's cast moves with precision and purpose. They also inhabit their characters fully. Though Astrakhan must deliver difficult, sinister, computer-obsessed monologues, Karl Gregory makes the character believable and somehow innocent.”
Michael Lazan, Backstage Online
June 2006
“Claire, portrayed with an eerie blend of cheer and chill by Karl Gregory, is a complex and damaged personality, a slightly warped June Cleaver...”
Robin Rothstein, nytheatre.com
FringeNYC 2008
“Karl Gregory plays Algernon. He’s funny and elastic and truthful in an unsettling way - this is perfection for a character who is always lying.”
Beth Milles, Director
Trinity Square Magazine, Winter 2009
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“In his Trinity debut, Karl Gregory steals scenes liberally and sucessfully, as is his character's jester modus operandi. In Gregory's hands, Algernon is unapologetically foppish (as was Wilde).”
Randy Rice, BroadwayWorld.com
April 2009
“ Gregory returns to the Kitchen stage with a vengeance, his limbs seeming to fly in multiple dimensions whenever involved in a song, dropping back to a hang-dog, nervous tic of a man when he’s “just” Bud.
His buxom Helvectica, the mad Monk (part Alan Rickman as Snape, part Darth Vader) and a pair of singing rats are special highlights. [He] really brings down the house with his shimmying Elvis legs in the Act 1 finale. “
Ross Haarstad, Tompkins Weekly
June 2009
“ What had me laughing the most were the facial expressions. So much was conveyed by the cast of a glance, the quiver of a chin. Gregory, in particular, is a master of nuance. The relationship between the two friends is revealed with very few words.”
Jennifer Taylor,
Finger Lakes Times
June 2009
GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL!
by Brown/King
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
The Cripple of Inishmaan
by Martin McDonagh
Woyzeck
“The Doctor (Karl Gregory) does the best broad acting job of the evening, entertaining us with verbal tics and fidgets as he tortures Woyzeck with dire health predictions and insists he eat nothing but peas. At one point he gives a pronouncement from high on a tall ladder. This scene is captivating, as Gregory whirls and scampers about like a rat in a cage, though smug with power.”
Bill Rodriguez, Providence Phoenix
December 2009
The 39 Steps
“This is a wildly talented cast across the board, and sometimes they seem better than the material. ...the clowns, Curran Connor and Karl Gregory provide the geography of the show. Even with the smallest snippet of dialogue, Gregory and Connor capture the nature of their role, a sudden glimpse that demands the audience fill in the gaps. They're clever, slippery performers, moving so smoothly between types they hardly break a sweat. “
Paul Hansom, Ithaca Times
June 2010
