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“She has an amazing ability to allow the individual actor’s voice to come through all the while coaching the performer to achieve her vision of the text. I felt at ease and well prepared under her direction. As a writer I have worked hand-in-hand with her to produce a Shakespearean adaptation of King Lear (Lear, Inc.). It was a humbling and exhilarating experience to watch Ilene breathe life into my words – and to watch that life take form and vision on the stage. She allowed me input into her ideas for the production, but maintained her own allegiance to her own artistic desire for the play.”
Harrison School for the Arts, Lakeland FL
“Ilene Fins has a remarkable instinct for breaking open theatrical space and unleashing acting power. Audiences can’t help but be sucked into her visceral productions.”
Reviews for Barbecue
“Kudos to director Ilene Fins for weaving such subtleties into the parallel universes...Barbecue is a fresh, thought-provoking, mind-twisting, funny, vulgar, and intelligent piece of theatre...It’s a perfect show for Trustus”
“Director Ilene Fins successfully juggled quickly shifting tones and themes to create a more-or-less cohesive whole...Barbecue is undeniable funny, in a take-no-prisoners, R-rated kind of way”
Reviews for Antigone
“...director Ilene Fins’ smart, economical staging of this timely work haunts us by its surprising ability to make us see the devil’s point of view, even as we revile him.”
“Director Ilene Fins has rethought this ancient clash of wills from another angle. In her fast, tight and well-acted production at Union Garage, Anouilh’s play becomes our question of the moment: What is the relationship between duty and extremism?”
“Ilene Fins directs a crackerjack presentation - confident, cool, smart...”
Reviews for The Lizzie Borden Play: A Speculation
“...you step into the theatre and from that moment on the sophisticated thrills take off with the speed of a murderer on roller skates ... this true-crime deconstruction is a breezy, bracing antidote to an overdose of high-fructose holiday cheer.””
“The energy created, and the central pull of the Borden mystery, gives the evening real momentum.”
Reviews for Dreams of Zeus
“Fisher and director Ilene Fins have a knack for writing and staging intricate, fuguelike ensemble scenes … they’ve created something remarkably attractive…”
“…stage director, Ilene Fins, who has done quite a lot of work around town, made the most of what she had at her disposal. Her design was necessarily fluid and often inventive.”