Profiles and Reviews
Colm Summers’ work has been critically acclaimed in The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The RTÉ Guide, The Sunday Business Post, among others. Here are some highlights from recent reviews and profiles.
AWARDS
Colm photographed for the RTE Guide in Ireland, in preparation for the opening of Love a la Mode at Smock Alley Theatre.
PUFFIN FOUNDATION PROJECT AWARD for When David Buckel Saved the World
IRISH ARTS COUNCIL PROJECT AWARD (2021) for Purgatory with Ciara Ní Chuirc.
IRISH ARTS COUNCIL AGILITY AWARD (2021) for Local Anaesthetic.
SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE NOMINEE (2016) for Gays Against the Free State by Oisín McKenna
BEST EXPERIMENTAL THEATER (2015) Fés Festival du Theatre, for Enemy of the Stars, co-adapted and directed with Nicholas Johnson.
THOMAS DAMANN JUNIOR MEMORIAL TRUST AWARD (2015) awarded for his theatrical work staging art history.
DEAN’S SCHOLAR (2018-2021), Columbia University.
SCHUBERT FELLOW (2018 -2021), Columbia University.
PRESS
THEATERLY “BEST THEATER OF 2023" here.
IRISH TIMES “We want our artists to have a hand on the steering wheel.” Read it here.
THE UNIVERSITY TIMES Profile of Colm. Read it here.
SHOUTOUT LOS ANGELES Interview with Colm. Read it here.
BROOKLYN READER announcement of Artist Residency. Read it here.
Mud & Springtime by Maria Irene Fornés (Lenfest Centre for the Arts, New York)
“Effective directorial choices of the two plays… establishing a strong sense of momentum and dread…but also a strong connection between the storytellers and their audience. At the end of the two plays, we left the Lenfest Center feeling reinvigorated by the liveliness of in-person theater...Summers’ direction kept us engaged throughout and … makes it clear that the underlying antagonist is not the characters, but their circumstances.” OPERA NEWS
Transgressions by A.A. Brenner (Shapiro Theatre, New York)
“An all-star production!'“ BOLD Magazine
Gays Against the Free State (Dublin Fringe Festival)
THE REVIEWS HUB
“The audience loved it!”
MUSINGS IN INTERMISSIONS
“Slick staging.”
THE REVIEWS HUB
“Excellent”
THE IRISH TIMES
“bursts though the theatre walls.”
SITTING ON THE FOURTH WALL
“a sharp reminder of the ways people can be left behind as change occurs, a reminder of the importance of intersectionality in campaigning.”
THE TRINITY NEWS
“a prime example of how experimental theatre can challenge and enlighten us and should be encouraged going forward.”
SELECTED REVIEWS
Love á la Mode (Dublin and London)
SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
☆☆☆☆
THE DUBLIN GAZETTE
“one of the summer theatre highlights.”
RTÉ (RAIDíO TEILIFÍS ÉIREANN)
“Rabelais meets Blackadder!”
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
“Sparkling period farce!”…”A comic tour de force.”
NO MORE WORKHORSE
“Will leave you in stitches.”
BRITISH SOCIETY OF 18th CENTURY-STUDIES
“Love a la Mode offers an impressively referential, while universally accessible, recreation of Macklin’s theatrical world, that leaves both the contemporary theatergoer, and the ‘hardcore’ eighteenth-century, in stitches of laughter.”