Reviews
- “Jake
Lipman (Adriane) is as charming as she is needy.
...Hysterical!” -- NYTheatre.com
review of Books on Tape by William Missouri
Downs, an official selection of the 15th Annual New
York International Fringe Festival.
- “The story opens with Adriane (adorably dorky
as portrayed by Jake Lipman), sitting on her
couch, enraptured by a disembodied voice being piped in
through her hot pink headphones.” -- New York
Theatre Review on Books on Tape
(FringeNYC)
- “Kudos
to Ms. Lipman and Tongue in Cheek Theater for making
manifest what’s funny, and what’s sneakily smart, in the
blurry scrim of these six characters--lost but
thoroughly recognizable--in search of too much to drink.”
-- BlogCritics.org
review of The Drunken City by Adam
Bock.”
- “The ensemble is first-rate. Jake Lipman brings a
determined good will to Janet seasoned with a hint of
ambition. ...New teacher Janet dreams of exploring
new ideas with her students and winning the Golden Apple
Teaching Award. After a year, her expectations are
crushed. ” -- TheatreOnline.com
review of Dead White Males: A Year in the Trenches
of Teaching by William Missouri Downs
- “The play truly needs all four of its characters to
keep its engine running, but the lynchpin of the show’s
plot is Catherine. Lipman does a beautiful
job of tapping into the anger, fear, and budding romantic
feelings that Catherine confronts in the intense roller
coaster of the one week following her father’s death. She
also does a stellar job of keeping her sister (and the
audience) on edge as she displays glimpses of a
scary instability not unlike her father’s.” -- NYTheatre.com review
of Proof by David Auburn
- “Jake
Lipman finds both bitterness and compassion within
Catherine, the daugher who gave up her own academic
aspirations to nurse her ailing father, Robert, as
he slowly slides into madness.” -- TheatreOnline.com
review of Proof by David Auburn
- “The show centers on one "Mistress" Sunny (Jake
Lipman) who is both a committed clinical psychology
student attending a prestigious university in New York
City, and a very professional dominatrix. Though bondage
may be too clingy for the typical psych student, it fits
just fine on Sunny, who manages to emit a Mother
Theresa-like aura even with a couple of sadomasochists
suspended by their ankles in her dungeon. Lipman does a superb
job of straddling the ever-thinning line between darling
and self-destruction.” -- NYTheatre.com review
of Psych by Evan Smith
- “[In Psych], Sunny (Jake Lipman) is a
twenty-something New Yorker who works as a dominatrix and
wants to go to grad school for psychology... Lipman is the
people-pleasing girl next door; she finds the balance
between kind and creepy and lets her character waver
uncomfortably between the two.” -- TheatreIsEasy.com
Noted
- Brookline TAB newspaper
interviewed Jake about her production of Books on
Tape in the New York International Fringe
Festival (FringeNYC)
- Smith College Alumnae Association
profiled Jake about her production of Books on
Tape in FringeNYC
- The short film Nailing Jell-o, in which Jake
has a small role, was selected by the Logo Network’s The Click List:
Best in Short Film, premiered on June 3
- Semi-Finalist in 2009 the Strawberry
One Act Festival, for her original one-woman show,
Up a River/Down the Aisle, at the Theatre at
St. Clements
- Up a River/Down the Aisle was an official
selection of the Short Subjects division of the 2009
Midtown International Theatre Festival, (see press
coverage on BroadwayWorld.com)
