Press
- Can Storytelling Help Overcome War Trauma The Calvert Journal by Lucia de la Torre Read Full Text
- In Istanbul, Producer Sona Tatoyan Is Ready for Her Close-Up by Christopher Atamian | Huffington Post | Read Full Text
- Film producer Sona Tatoyan speaks to healing the Armenian Genocide by Lys Anzia | Women News Network | Read Full Text
- Armenia On the Big Screen: An Interview with Sona Tatoyan by Alia Malek | Pulitzer Center | Read Full Text
- Sona Tatoyan (’00): Passion and bravery by Kerry M. King | Wake Forest Magazine | Read Full Text
Foreign Press
- Transformer le poison en remède by Almasd Leloire Kérackian | France Arménie | Read Full Text
Reviews
Brainpeople:
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Jan.-Feb. 2008
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Jan.-Feb. 2008
- “Tatoyan opens up by carefully calculated degrees from repressed, paranoid Armenian, carrying a history of persecution, to empathetic catalyst.” -Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
- “Ani (played superbly by Sona Tatoyan) must make the nerve-racking journey through the city’s many checkpoints … This real-time drama, with standout performances, unfolds beautifully and offers great insight into how basic human desires can go bizarrely astray when the world is falling apart.” -Giattina, San Francisco Bay Guardian Online
- “The discomfiture of Tatoyan’s primly dressed, bespectacled character … provides an oft-needed reality check.”
-Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly - “The performances by Rene Augesen, Sona Tatoyan, and Lucia Brawley kept me mesmerized – it was like watching a fireworks show with no damage control … Brilliant acting by everyone.” -Lee Hartgrave, Beyond Chron
- “Tatoyan fares best, largely because Ani is allowed some consistency even when her own hidden nuttiness spills out.”
-Dennis Harvey, Variety - “Tatoyan delivers an outstanding performance, one that ends with a potent and very surprising transformation.”
-Tiffany Maleshefski, Theater Mania - “Tatoyan, an impressive newcomer to the company, is the playwright’s wife, but there is no nepotism about her casting – she is exactly right for the role.” -Janos Gereben, The Examiner
Boleros for the Disenchanted:
Yale Repertory Theatre, Connecticut, May 2008
Yale Repertory Theatre, Connecticut, May 2008
- “Sprightly and engaging Tatoyan … gives a charming performance as a young woman who will not buy into Manuelo’s machismo philosophy.”-Geary Danihy, Connecticut Critics Circle
- “The Yale Rep cast is exceptional, believably inhabiting a world where humor, pain, poetry and grace exist simultaneously. As Flora young and old, Tatoyan and Sevan are both suitably self-possessed, sharp-tongued, funny and fraught.” -Frank Rizzo, Variety
Red Scare on Sunset:
The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, Sept.-Oct. 2008
The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, Sept.-Oct. 2008
- “As Marta Towers, Sona Tatoyan perfectly captures the heightened delivery that was a hallmark of Hollywood acting in the days before Strasberg and Meisner.” -Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
- “Indicating is a must in Busch productions and Droege, Tarantino, Tatoyan and Whitlock mug for each other and audience until it hurts to laugh.”-Conrad Angel Corral, Actor's Ink
- “Tatoyan is properly ruthless as the Russky dragon lady." -Neal Weaver, Backstage
- “Especially memorable are the female contingent: namely … Sona Tatoyan as the evil femme fatale Marta Towers.”
-Don Grigware, Grigware Talks Theatre - “Sona Tatoyan, as the seductive secret agent Marta Towers, is restrained perfection.” - Wenzel Jones, Frontiers Magazine