Stage Directing Credits

       By Joseph M. Schuster, 

                                  Show Business Weekly

“Duvall O’Steen plays Romeo with an exuberance that I have never seen brought to the character. Preeshl…is an excellent director…the death scene is perfection. The all-female cast breathes new life into Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers and gives the play an interesting  

      By Valentina Mlađen, ZadarskiList

“[I]t was well enough acted to be understandable and it was innovative enough to attract…a small but quality audience of culture connoisseurs to the Zadar Puppet Theater.” 

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    By Mary Elizabeth Ellzey, Earlytheatre.org

‘The Ascension’…captured the constantly shifting moods of despair, anxiety, hope, and confidence….While the apostles painfully lamented…and comforted one another, the blood-red silk of Jesus’s train was visible…behind the angel, halfway up the stairs…The most beautiful symbols …the apostles lifted Jesus to represent the crucifixion, stigmata in his palms had become roses, and the blood that he shed now became rose petals.

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     By Ray Vrazel, KC/ACTF

The production, allowing the audience to be there with the actors…tak[es] him on a surreal journey of the great fall…The play was titillating. Instead of leading the audience down a primrose path, the show led to wisdom, knowledge and the “ah ha.” Life is beyond us. Not in charge of our lives, we slam into a bus…to realize that “this is the moment.

     By Robert Coleman, 

                                    The Salt Lake Tribune

“a rare, fully staged version” of the work.

Matt Wright, The Utah Statemen

                                                    April 13, 2005

[T]here was a time when Cinnamon Toast Crunch, pajamas and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” made Saturday …the…most anticipated part of the week…Utah State Theatre …recreate[s] that “Saturday morning cartoon” feeling with a unique adaptation of Comedy of Errors…like watching five Charlie Chaplins on stage all at once. It’s insane, random and not like anything you would expect…[L]ogical absurd [is] where something is said and…everything associated with a given word comes into being and then, just as suddenly, leaves…[V]erbal comedy…inspires the physical comedy.

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