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REVIEWS
Performance
THIRD COAST REVIEW
"This production approaches the Jacobean era and its value system from a modern perspective, staging two trans-femme characters in French maid-style costumes as the play's narrators: the super-talented Kidany Camilo (Solange) and Bree Perry (Clara). [...] Camilo and Perry's performances are a production highlight: they are able to engage lightheartedly with questions of identity, as well as passionately recount tragic news and deeply personal stories, told both in English and Spanish." -Row Light
THE FOURTH WALSH
"WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN is a lot to take in!! The redeeming quality of the show is strong performances. Along with Camilo and Perry, Christin Prince and Mia Chase Van de Mark captivate as two maidens being forced into marriages by the patriarchal culture." -Katy Walsh
BUZZ CENTER STAGE
"Most remarkable was the double act of Kidany Camilo (they/she/he, Solange) and Bree Perry (she/they, Clara) appearing throughout the show dressed as ‘maids from the Clue game’, with commentary and heart-rending narrative about Solange’s trans/femme childhood." -Sarz Maxwell
CHICAGO READER
"On the whole, the most impactful elements of this show are the scenes with [Kidany Camilo and Bree Perry]—which could have and should have easily been a play on their own." -Amanda Finn
ON THE AISLE WITH TOM ALVAREZ
"Standing out for they/she/he’s multiple performances as Jason’s formidable boss Armida, Josefina, Medea’s spunky, irascible friend, and a soldier, was Kidany Camilo." -Tom Alvarez
JAY HARVEY UPSTAGE
"In the first presentation of her double role, Kidany Camilo, as Josefina, sent sparks of blithe enthusiasm flying about the stage as an entrepreneurial, cart-pushing bread seller. In a more brazen, less calculating way than Jason, she also is under the spell of the American dream, while her illusions about freedom loom even larger than his. She also made much of Josefina's contrast with Armida, Jason's upwardly mobile boss, a woman who has fully discarded old-country ways; her portrayal was chillingly hard-bitten and ruthless." -James Harvey
NEW CITY STAGE
Then There Was Music: A Review of Measure for Measure at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
"Everywhere you turn in “Measure” there is a standout performance. [...] Robert Schleifer and Kidany Camilo remind us that humanity is a complicated, lifelong affliction." -Amanda Finn
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
‘Measure for Measure’: Transplant to Havana brings out the passions in Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’
"La Trucha is a place of many moods, and Godinez switches the ambiance to slow-dance torrid romance when Espuma (Kidany Camilo) takes the mic for a melancholic, mesmerizing ballad." -Catey Sullivan
TAMPA BAY TIMES
'Four Guys Named Jose and Una Mujer Named Maria' at Stageworks will have you dancing
“Another standout is Camilo (José Mexicano). He can hold a note for a ridiculous amount of time, ending with a perfect vibrato. And with a constantly bemused expression and impeccable timing, he's a natural comedian.” -Maggie Duffy
STAGE, TV, & CINEMA ARTS AND ARTISTS
Four Guys Named José and Una Mujer Named Maria: Y Una Producción Más Buena Y Rica Que La Otra En Nueva York!
“KIDANY CAMILO is José Mexicano and he is a house-on-fire!!! A beautiful lyric tenor sounding voice mixed with moves that glide into each other and an innocence that the others do not have or need endears him to us.” -Joseph Parra
BROADWAY WORLD (TAMPA/ST.PETE)
Time stands still in this passionate and evocative work “These Shining Lives” at Powerstories Theatre
"Tom Donahue played by standout Kidany Camilo is truly exceptional [...] Kidany is a strong actor and an exceptional performer he took a role very hard to play as the character needs to evolve in so many layers and like an onion we as the audience saw every one. [...] effective, to the point, honest, and heart-breaking; this was the delivery we received from this young actor, and he will be one to watch for years to come." -Drew Eberhard
STAGE, TV, & CINEMA ARTS AND ARTISTS
COLUMBINUS: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
"Kidany Camilo-Nieves as 'Prep'-- an excellent portrayal of the closeted needed to be loved/liked kid who must ride along. Astoundingly, there is not one moment of any actor's work in here that ever rings untrue and with a downbeat and at times cynical piece." -Joseph Parra
BROADWAY WORLD (TAMPA/ST.PETE)
New Tampa Players Offer a Celebration of Courage with Production of 'Quilt'
"Kidany Camilo Nieves is exceptional as Timmy Bell, a diminutive gay man nicknamed Tinker Bell who lost his true love, Peter Brown. I've seen this talented young man in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, but this was the role he was meant to play. When his monologue dissolved into sobs, I doubt there was a dry eye in the house. I know mine weren't." -Deborah Bostock-Kelley
CREATIVE LOAFING TAMPA BAY
The Laramie Project at The Space at 2106: Powerful, moving and, sadly, still relevant
"Kidany Camilo is touching as the high school acting student who gradually comes to an awakening about his own prejudices after he does a scene from Angels in America." -David Warner