Nina O'Keefe | Actress

February 10, 2011
An hour before the start of Tuesday night’s penultimate dress rehearsal, half the cast of Sideshow Theatre Company’s “Heddatron” was making a lot of noise — lunging and stretching, their voices swooping through a range of warm-up exercises. Downstage, the cast members Billy-bot and Hans stood apart, occasionally flexing an arm or a neck joint, winking at curious onlookers and, when provoked, beeping loudly.
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June 2010
"Eustace Allen is excellent as Lou, the academic terrified of being blacklisted, whose wife (the teasing Nina O'Keefe) boldly comes on to Quentin. And there are fine turns by Margaret Grace as another worshipful admirer, and by Eric Leonard and others."

2010

"No review could possibly do all the performances justice. Let's just say Nina O'Keefe as Jeanine, the wheelchair-bound, disillusioned Marxist, starts everyone off with an incredible warm-up. "I failed as a revolutionary and as a dope addict," she says. She also fails at suicide -- although that actually turns out to be a good thing. If fact, maybe even her attempt at suicide wasn't such a bad thing either -- especially since, after leaping from her window, Jeanine starts living each passing moment with passionate intensity.

"Attempted suicide as religious experience - that's only the beginning of Miller's tasty treats. O'Keefe knows very well the poetic power of Miller's dialogue. Her concentration never relents."