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REVIEWS
Chinglish
Portland Center Stage/Syracuse Stage
Dir. May Adrales
The American theatre provides limited opportunity for its Asian American actors, but this lack is amplified by the unique strength of a performance like Tina Chilip’s as vice-minister Xi Yan. She gives life to a feminine culture mostly unknown to the American audience. – Marisa Carusa, NY Theater Guide
Tina Chilip’s Xi Yan is the Asian equivalent of a Hitchcock blonde: beauty fused with malevolence. - James MacKillop, Syracuse New Times
The toughest, fiercest, and most complex personality is the minister’s second in command, Xi Yan (an alternately icy and feisty Tina Chilip). - Barbara Adams, Ithaca.com
Peter O'Connor and Tina Chilip in Chinglish
...played with captivating hilarity and emotional resonance by Tina Chilip. – Rebecca Johnson, Willamette Week
Chilip’s nuanced revelations of Xi Yan’s multiple motivations, form the solid and likable core of Center Stage’s productions – Bob Hicks, Oregon Arts Watch
Tina Chilip is smart and funny as Xi Yan. – Holly Johnson, The Oregonian
Tina Chilip is thoroughly enticing. – James Bash, NW Reverb
...conveying the intelligence and wit of her character in spite of the language barrier. - Michael O'Connor, CNY Cafe Momus
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Dir. Tony Taccone
...the incessantly curious Sooze (the hilarious Tina Chilip) - Lou Fancher, SF Weekly
Sooze... as blithely played by Tina Chilip, has a refreshing willingness to laugh at the family’s ridiculousness, especially when you’d think she’d be the most enraged by it. - Sam Hurwitt, KQED Arts
Tina Chilip, who harnesses some hilarious moments despite brief on-stage time - Jay Barmann, SFist
L-R: Mark Margolis, Tina Chilip and Joseph Parks
Left to right: Jojo Gonzales, Siho Ellsmore, Tina Chilip, David Shih in A Dream Play
A Dream Play
National Asian American Theater Company, NY
Dir. Andy Pang
You won't forget the courage of Tina Chilip's Agnes – Deirdre Donovan, CurtainUp
The Hindu god Indra's daughter, played by Tina Chilip with fetching sweetness – Michael Feingold, Village Voice
Ms. Chilip, a quiet presence on stage, provides an affecting presence as the witness to humanity’s sufferings - Aaron Botwick, scribicide
The scenes between Agnes (Tina Chilip) and the Lawyer (Alexis Camins), are particularly affecting – Loren Noveck, nytheatre.com
...Tina Chilip [is] particularly engaging...as the god's daughter - Karen D’Onofrio, Electronic Link Journey
Flipzoids
Ma-Yi Theater, New York, NY
Dir. Loy Arcenas
Ms. Valdes-Aran and Ms. Chilip interact with the emotional shorthand that accompanies a lifetime of shared memories; when the two women hold hands, their bodies appear to fold into one another. – Eric Grode, New York Times
Tina Chilip is perfectly cast as her daughter, Vangie – Iris Greenberger, Show Business Weekly
Tina Chilip, who was in the Manila run of David Henry Hwang’s “Golden Child” for Tanghalang Pilipino in 2008 (for which she received a Philstage Gawad Buhay citation for Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role), will play Vangie. – Walter Ang, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Tina Chilip with Ching Valdes-Aran in Flipzoids at Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
M. Butterfly
Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Dir. Peter Rothstein
The rest of the cast rounds out the production quite well, particularly Tina Chilip's wonderful performance of Liling's boss Comrade Chin. – Sheila Regan, Twin Cities Daily Planet
Lee Mark Nelson, Tina Chilip, and Nathaniel Fuller provide plenty of comic relief in their multiple roles as well – Tad Simons, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine
Tina Chilip as Comrade Chin was just plain hilarious. – Janet Preus, HowWasTheShow.com
Tina Chilip (left) with Randy Reyes (center) and Andrew Long (right) in M. Butterfly
Yellow Face
TheatreWorks, Mountain View, CA
Dir. Robert Kelley
Tina Chilip is completely brilliant when she appears briefly as Sen. Fred Thompson. She gets that basset-hound face, that ponderous former actor's self-important voice. Hilarious. – John Orr, AllBusiness.com
Tina Chilip does hilarious turns as politicians and reporters. - Jeanie Forte, Palo Alto Online
Tina Chilip gives a great performance as Leah and in other roles. – Richard Connema, Talking Broadway
L-R: Francis Jue, Amy Resnick, Tina Chilip, Pun Bandhu, Howard Swain in Yellow Face
Joy Luck Club
Pan Asian Rep, New York, NY
Dir. Tisa Chang
Tina Chilip stands out as the driven, super-capitalist Waverly. Her vitality and pulse embodies an American spirit that clashes with her Chinese-born mother. – Jason Jacobs, NYTheatre.com
As Waverly Jong (strongly played by Tina Chilip) puts it, if you dare to tell your Chinese mother to shut up, "you can be charged as an accessory to your own murder. – Jennifer Farrar, The Associated Press
Golden Child
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Dir. Loy Arcenas
Tina Chilip gains the audience’s laughs (and hearts) with her portrayal of the shameless but irresistible Second Wife, the schemer who plays her card well. – Shirley Lau, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Tina Chilip played it so well that every scene of hers catches every beat and nuance of the lines. She creates her own space as if she owns it. – Joey Ting, Art Theater Manila