Acting Reel

“Higgy’s friend Ulcie, a floozy exuberantly played by Keira Naughton, is hilarious.”

— New York Times review of "These Paper Bullets"

“Emily Skinner and Keira Naughton appear in scenes that usually come off as winking blackout sketches, involving karate and pot smoking. Yet… they manage to turn comic conceits into seemingly spontaneous studies in relationships. They truly do feel alive in ways Bobby can only envy.”

— Ben Brantley, The New York Times review of "Company" at the Kennedy Center Sondheim Festival

“Keira Naughton is sweetly believable as a child at a birthday party, where the grown-ups are discussing very serious things in the background. But she is most memorable, playing way beyond her age, as an older woman with dementia..”

— Anita Gates, The New York Times review of "The Dining Room" at Westport Playhouse

“Whatever plot there is revolves around Charlotte, played so humorously by Keira Naughton she practically gives the play a free pass through much of the first act.”

— Variety review of " The Goatwoman of Corvis County" at Shakespeare & Co

“Throughout the show, there’s a deft mix of theatricality and reality. This is personified by Keira Naughton… She is masterful at bringing stage presence and a compelling voice to characters that are described onstage as plain, desperate, anxiety ridden and otherwise conventionally unattractive and non-heroic. Yet Naughton always is able to show inner sensitivities, sensualities and senses of humor that may not be outwardly acknowledged yet are essential to the roles she plays. Seriously, someone should do a festival of David Lindsay-Abaire plays and star Keira Naughton in all of them.”

New Haven Theater Jerk review of “I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and Didn’t Even Smile” by Suzanne Heathcote, directed by Jackson Gay

In “Gods of Comedy” by Ken Ludwig; directed by Amanda Dehnert at McCarter Theater and Old Globe

With Justin Kirk in “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing” by Will Arbery at White Heron/New Neighborhood. Directed by Dustin Wills.

With CJ Wilson in “Macbeth” at Berkshire Theater Festival

With George Psomas in “Gods of Comedy” directed by Amanda Dehnert

With Andrew Rothenberg in “I Saw My Neighbor from the Train..” by Suzanne Heathcote, directed by Jackson Gay

With Stephen Sondheim and Mia Farrow at the opening of “Company” at the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration

In “A Delicate Balance” by Edward Albee, directed by James Bundy at Yale Rep with Kathleen Butler, John Carter and Kathleen Chalfant

With Greg Keller in “Elevada” by Sheila Callaghan, directed by Jackson Gay

With Ceci Fernandez, Ariana Venturi, Jeanine Seralles, Brad Heberlee in “These Paper Bullets”

With Kate Rigg and Jeanine Serrales in “The Jammer” by Rolin Jones, directed by Jackson Gay at Atlantic Theatre Company,

Photo by Xanthe Elbrick

With Jeanine Serralles and Ariana Venturi in “These Paper Bullets” at Yale Rep

With Charles Socarides, Heidi Armbruster, Christopher Henry Coffey, Jake Robards and Jennifer Van Dyke in “The Dining Room” by A.R. Gurney, directed by Mark Lamos at Westport Playhouse

“The evening’s charismatic glue, though, is supplied by the terrific Keira Naughton,… Naughton is so dynamic that she’s a bulwark against doubt. She’s also the emotional hub from which the several spokes of “Proof” radiate. Naughton… takes nary a false step all evening. You feel as if you’re walking right behind her, on that fine line between self-sufficiency and despair. While Catherine’s energy is negative, Naughton is never a downer. You sense that beneath the unkempt hair, the shapeless denim skirts, the nasty cracks, she is a woman, a pretty one, who hasn’t given up hoping for her own redemption.”

— Peter Marks, The Washington Post review of "Proof" at Arena Stage