Ruth Kulerman
British trained. Shakespearean
Duchess to
Southern trailer trash.
AEA AFTRA SAG
Dual Citizen USA / UK (Raised
in rural USA South. Non-regional American accent)
NOTE:
Spring, 2008:
Returns to acting after 4 years' absence (family illness).
April, 2008
Shot film "When the Evening Comes." (See details in
resume.)
June, 2008 Shot
film "Satan Hates You." (See details in resume.)
Sept, 2008 Countess of Henslowe in Off
B'way production of "Elizabeth Rex"
Former Prof. of Eng. Lit.
Entered acting field in 1989.
2004-05 wrote 40 weekly articles on acting for the Internet's largest acting
E-zine.
For
coaching info: www.LSW-NYC.com/ActingCoachNewYork.html
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REVIEWS
THEATRE: (NEW YORK) (*Starred projects: See 74 condensed reviews below, including four from The NY Times)
|
Quintessential Image
(Jane Chambers)
(World Premiere)
|
World-Famous Photographer (lead) (Two-character comedy) | Prod. John Glines (Tony Winner)* Dir: Peg Murray (Tony Winner) |
| Key West | Scottish Aunt Lilly (lead) | Prod. John Glines* |
| How Now, Voyager (spoof of "Now Voyager") | Rich Bostonian Matriarch | Prod. John Glines* |
| Elizabeth Rex | Countess of Henslowe (Companion to Elizabeth I ) |
Prod: Nicu's Spoon.(Joined cast when show moved to Off B'way, Aug., 2008) Dir: Joanne Zipay |
| Bloomsday on Broadway XXII Also broadcast live on WBAI | Martin (Cyclops Section: Ulysses) | Dir: Caraid O'Brien w/Marian Seldes, Lois Smith, Kathleen Chalfant, Fritz Weaver, David Margulies, William Hurt, etal. |
| Bloomsday
on Broadway XXIII Also broadcast live on WBAI |
Questioner (Ithaca Section: Ulysses) | Two
character Scene
opposite Keir Dullea |
| Sharon, The Musical | Mag: Spirit of Ancient Ireland | Playhouse 91 (Dir. Geraldine Fitzgerald) With Ken Jennings (Drama Desk Award) |
| The Idiot (Dostoevsky) | Princess Mishkin | Thtr for the New City (Dir: A. Fourmantchouk)* |
| 31 Bond Street | Gay-bashing mother of lead | B'klyn Lyceum (SPT contract)(Dir:Julie Balzer)* |
| The Hat
Left Behind (Todd Lepre) |
Queen (lead) | Theatre
Row: Studio Theatre (Off-B'way, 2006) Also Produced and Directed |
| The Hat Left Behind (Todd Lepre) | Queen (lead) | Thtr for the New City (Dir: Todd Lepre)* Runner up: 2001 Princess Grace Award |
| Alison's House | Jennie (the Irish Maid) | Mint Thtr Co.
(Top Ten 1999 BACKSTAGE)* Prod: Jonathan Bank |
| What I Meant Was (Craig Lucas) | Senile Nana | Dir. Pippin Parker (with Lee Wilkof)* |
| Portia Coughlan | Blaize Scully | Todo con NADA (Dir: Aaron Beall: OBIE Award Winner)* |
| The Dead Man (Sholom Asch/ Caraid O'Brien) | Frumme Liebtshe (blind mother of dead man | Eldridge St. Synagogue (Dir: Aaron Beall) |
| Random Acts (Fully Staged Rdg) | Senile mom | Dir: Vera Beren: 29th Street Rep. |
| A Loss of Roses (Inge) | 1930's Awful Actress | Irish Arts Center Theatre* |
| Richard II | Duchess of York | Riverside Shakespeare Co. |
| Richard III | Duchess of York | Shakespeare Project: Cloisters, Bryant Park |
| Romeo & Juliet | The Nurse | National Shakespeare Co. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | The Countess | American Globe (Dir: Nate Merchant) |
| Edmund Ironside(attributed to Shakespeare) | Mother of Villain (Fully staged reading) | American Globe (Dir: Nate Merchant) |
| Pseudolus (Plautus) | Farce Roman Matron | Millennium Stage (Dir: Nate Merchant) |
| The Three Sisters | Anfisa | Best Play Award Off-Off B'way 1996* |
| Medea | The Nurse | Best Play Award Off-Off B'way 1997* |
| The Deaths of Tschaikovsky (Stgd Rdg) | Composer's patroness | Dir: Rob Urbinati |
| Rensselaer (staged reading) | Russian Immigrant | Dir: Rob Urbinati |
| Dodging Tornadoes | Crotchety Invalid (lead) | Dir: Abby Bess |
| Post Code | Aging Movie Star | Dir: Mahayana Landowne 12th Annual Am. Living Room Fest. at HERE. |
| Holy Ghosts (R. Linney) | Southern Mountaineer Musician | Dir: Rick
Lombardo* (Current Art. Dir. New Repertory.Thtr, Boston) |
| Black, White and Blue | Basketball Team Owner | Dir: Linda Burson* |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | Miss McGraw (teacher) | Dir: Lee Gundersheimer |
| The Shadow Box | Feisty Dying Mother | Flatiron Theatre Co.(Dir: Michael Doane) |
| Amusing Tempest | Alcoholic Homicidal Mother (lead) | Dir: Trip Cullman |
| Exchange (Y. Trifonov) | Russian Victim (mother of lead) | Blue Heron Theatre Co. |
| Bedside Manners | Rich Jewish Grandmother | Blue Heron & Theatre Rising: co-prods* |
| Eye of the Beholder | Famous Painter (lead) | Theatre Rising Productions |
| Tinker's Wedding (Synge) | Mother (lead) | Irish American Theatre Co.* |
| Hands Across the Sea (Noel Coward) | Colonial Wife | The Heritage Theatre |
| The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (Barrie) | Cockney Charwoman | The Heritage Theatre (w/ Deirdre Owen) |
| The Deep Mrs. Sykes (George Kelly) | Alcoholic Socialite | The Heritage Theatre (w/ Norma Fire) |
| Philip Goes Forth | Hazel | The Heritage Theatre (w/ Deirdre Owen) |
| Rose and the Rake | Duchess (mother of male lead) | About Face Theatre Co. |
THEATRE: (Regional: USA & England) *See reviews below
| Twelfth Night | Curio/Priest | Battersea Arts Center (London) |
| Romeo & Juliet | Nurse | Mercer College (Princeton) |
| Anna Magdalena Bach's Will | Anna Magdalena Bach (1½ hr. monologue) | Chamber Music Plus (New Haven, CT) Dir: Harry Clark Performed with live music |
| Life with Father | Margaret, the Irish Cook | Carousal Dinner Theatre with Robert Reed * (Joey Patton: Dir. Akron, Ohio) |
| Blithe Spirit | Mrs. Bradman | Shakespeare 70 (Trenton, NJ)* |
| Blithe Spirit | Madam Arcati | Old Lyric Theatre (Utah)* |
| And A Nightingale Sang | 1940's Newcastle Mother | Old Lyric Theatre (Utah)* |
| Rumors (Neil Simon) | Cookie (TV Chef) | Old Lyric Theatre (Utah)* |
| The Immigrant | Texas Banker's Wife | Mt. Gretna Playhouse (Penn.) Dir: Al Franklin* |
| At Long Last Leo (East Coast Premiere) | Clinically Depressed Mother | Mt. Gretna Playhouse (Penn.) Dir: Al Franklin* |
| On Golden Pond | Ethel Thayer | Somerset Players (NJ)* |
| Arsenic & Old Lace | Aunt Martha | PCP (Princeton)* |
| Fools (Neil Simon) | Yenchna the Vendor | Princeton Street Tours |
| Country Wife (Wycherly) | Lucy | Shakespeare 70 (Trenton) |
| FILM: USA / Europe | ||
| The Band (Promotional Video for Madrid) | Female Lead | Dir: Spike Lee |
| The Jimmy Show (writer: Frank Whaley) | Deli Patron (victim of lead's anger: Featured)) | Dir:
Frank Whaley w/ Whaley, Ethan Hawke
& Carla Gugino(Sundance Fest., Toronto Fest.) Premiere 12 / 02 |
| When the Evening Comes | Alice Bushman (Supporting. Leads' Friend) | with
Anne Meara & Philip Bosco (2008) Dir: Craig Geraghty |
| Payday | Betsy (only female in film: prostitute/barmaid) | With Jimmy Breslin & Theodore Bikel |
| Blue Christmas | Helene: Canadian Inn Owner. French role | With Joanna Going & Bob Hogan |
| Cugini | Sister Athanasius (Supporting) | With
Molly Price, Burt Young, Carla Gugino Special Recognition LA Italian Film Fest 2003 "Audience Award" Staten Island Film Fest 2006. Westchester Film Fest. |
| A Walk in the Dark | Neighbor of Male Lead (Featured) | Dir:
Bruce Lucas
w/ Michael McGlone (13 Film Festivals including Moscow, London, Poland, LA)"Outstanding Director" : WriteMovies.com Dec., 2003"Best Short Film": Portland Oregon Film Fest "Audience Award" Euroshort Fest. Olsztyn, Poland |
| The Cobbler (short film) | Nurse Ruby (Supporting) | Myriad Arts Productions. With Randall Duk Kim |
| The Prophet (working title) | Pioneer Woman (Featured) | Dir: Richard Dutcher (Canada Shoot) |
| Forever for Now | Wilma: (Magic Store Owner: Featuredl) | With Dawn Wells & Marcia Wallace (Denver shoot) |
| Satan Hates You | Mrs. Harker (Hotel Mgr: Supporting. Scenes with Michael Berryman as Mr. Harker) | Dir: James McKenney w/ Pauley Perrette, Angus Scrimm, Michael Berryman. Prod: Larry Fessenden |
| The Off-Season | Mrs. Farthing (Motel Mgr: Principal) | Dir: James McKenney w/ Angus Scrimm Larry Fessenden: Prod. (Maine Shoot) |
| Last Call | Beautiful Redhead: (Supporting) | Prod:
Valerie Romer. Dir:
David Drach
(Paris) Paris Tout Court Festival: Audience Prize Best French. Film |
| See Food | Beach Narrator (Featured) | Dir. Louis Leterrier (Paris) |
| Mister Bird | Landmark Home Owner (Featured) | Dir: M.Johnson (Berlin) w/ Dietmar Wunder |
| Billy's Bad | Mme. Stravinski (Eastern European Fortune Teller: Supporting) | Dir: Hedde Simons (Amsterdam Shoot) (Limited release in Holland) w/ Bill van Dijk |
| Judas | Insane Nanny (Lead) | Dir: Barbara Gut (Madrid) |
| I'm Thursday (Short Film) | Dying Courtesan (Lead) | Dir:Helena Smith First Run Film Festival (Wasserman Semi-Finalist) |
| East Seventh Street | Widow (Co-lead) | Dir: Dara Albanese (Virginia Film Festival) |
| From Woodside, Queens (Short Film) | Lead's Nana (Featured) | Dir: Matthew Bonifacio Gold Prize Winner: Houston Worldfest Film; Finalist: Ashland Film Fest (Ore.); LA; New Haven; Garden State; Irish (Fleadh); Aspen, CO |
| The Spiral | Insane Bag Lady (Featured) | Winner Brooklyn Film Festival, 2000 |
| The Guests | Evil Guest (Co-lead) | Grand Prize Rhode Island Film Festival Finalist Santa Monica Film Festival |
| Final Resolution | 1940's German Peasant (Supporting) | Finalist Award Worldfest Houston Finalist Award Worldfest Flagstaff, Ariz. (Accepted in 14 film festivals, including Paris, London, Palm Beach, NYC, and LA.) |
| In Search of the Monkey Girl | Weeping Statue Owner (Co-lead) | Hon. Mention Slamdance Fest (Utah) |
| Chez Goat | Rich Ohioan (Co-lead) | Dir: Eric Eason: Sundance Best New Dir 2001 |
| TELEVISION | ||
| Third Watch | Mrs. O'Keefe (Sully's neighbor) | NBC Dir: Dave Chameides |
| Ed | Madeline (about Wuzzy the dog) (Featured) | NBC Dir: Tom Cavanagh |
| As the World Turns | Irish Pub Owner (Day Player) | CBS |
| Guiding Light | Restaurant Hostess (u/5) | CBS |
| American Masters Series: The American Novel ("Seize the Day") | Rich Hotel Patron (Featured) | PBS Dir: Michael Epstein (Emmy) w/ Liev Schrieber |
| Bill Moyers Journal ("On Dying") | Dying Woman (Featured) | PBS |
| Nickelodeon Promo | Sole performer | Nickelodeon |
| Downtown (on-going animation series) | Animation Voice (Principal Role) | MTV |
| Discovery Kids ("Kenny the Shark") | Mrs. Gardner (scene w/ Kenny) | Discovery Channel |
| VH1 (Honors "Witness") | Irish Peasant (Featured) | VH1 |
| VH1 ("Rock of Ages") | 1 of 2 female guest singers | VH1 |
| Screwed | Homeless drunk (Principal--mother of lead) | TV Pilot |
| Ask E. Jean | One hour solo guest (talk show) | America's Talking Channel |
| Oh La La (Group: Two Elvisa) | German Music Video | Dir: Christian Schultz (Stuttgart) |
STAGED READINGS
Companies: Rattlestick Theatre Co.; Vital Theatre Co.; 29th Street Rep., Madwoman of Chaillot (lead) Kings County Shakes-
peare Co.), Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance (Kings County Shakespeare Co.), Myriad Arts Film
Production Co., Oberon Theatre Ensemble, Wrighting by Travis Mills with Charlie Pollock (at The Players)
Misc. Readings: Dir: Rob Urbinati; Dir: Paula D'Alissandris; Eastward, Ho! (Dir: Bruce Wall); Camino Real (Greensleeves Co.)
Children's Hour (Dir: Michael Severeid); Anton's Sister (At The Drama Book Shop. Dir: Mahayana Landowne)
Gilgamesh (Yusef Komunyakaa) Backers' Reading.
DEMOS (Video & Audio) / COMMERCIALS / RADIO / PRINT
DEMOS: Film / TV / Theatre / Commercials / Voice-Over / Animation
COMMERCIALS: 20
principals (national & regional), including one CLIO
for NY Lotto. (Agt: Paradigm: 212-703-7540)
Selected List: Palmolive, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Showboat
Casino, Audi, Jamesway, Guinness
RADIO: Soap: "Willow Crossing" (Lead--Pennsylvania stations)
PRINT: Sears (Teacher in Sports Illustrated for Kids); Salvation Army (Homeless Mary In Annual Report); Oxford Univ. Press.,
Backstage Tech Section, etc. .
SPECIAL
INFO / EDUCATION
Acting Debut 1989;
Former Prof. of Eng. Lit;
Play piano well;
Legit lyric soprano (1940's pop, Ballads, Folk, Opera)
Private Coaching (NYC):
Patricia Conolly, Patrick Tucker (RSC), Marcus Powell, Robin Prising,
Patricia Sage (singing)
Other Training (London): David Perry
(Shakespeare, Restoration), Madeleine Cannon (Voice & Movement)
Education:
Juilliard
(Voice) / BYU
(Opera, Eng. Lit:)
BA
(Eng. Lit.)
Hunter College
MA (Eng. Lit.- 18th Century) Hunter College MA (Eng. Lit.- Ed.) CCNY
Ph.D.
(Eng. Lit -
Shakespeare)
CUNY Grad
Center
REVIEWS
THEATRE:
(NY & Out-of-Town)
Film Reviews are at the end of "New York Theatre Reviews"
NEW YORK:
| Superbly played on target by Ruth Kulerman. I don't know when a show has made me laugh so hard. |
| NEW YORK POST: Jerry Tallmer (Quintessential Image) |
Ruth Kulerman imbues her role with a subtle
sense of caricature and honesty and self-acceptance with
confidence and good humor in this Norman Lear-style comedy. Blowzy
and
eccentric, she slouches onto the stage and rattles on.
NEW YORK TIMES: Stephen Holder
(Quintessential Image)
| Captivating stuff. Vivid supporting performance by Ruth Kulerman as a foul mouthed grandmother. |
| NEW YORK TIMES: Neil Genzlinger (Portia Coughlan) |
Played with cozy battiness by Ruth Kulerman. NEW YORK TIMES: Sarah Boxer (The Idiot)
The thirteen skilled actors
in this production transport you back to Shakespeare's day
effortlessly.
NEW YORK TIMES:
Neil Genzlinger [Elizabeth Rex]
Uniformly strong cast.
THE NEW YORKER:
(9/01/08)(Elizabeth Rex)
Ruth Kulerman does an outstanding job with her character
Edna, giving the role depth and
dimension. Seeing this actor make Edna
totally believable is worth the price of admission. There is some wonderful writing in
Bedside Manners waiting to be developed and
brought to life in the way Ruth Kulerman managed to do.
THEATRE REVIEWS.com:
David Roberts (Bedside Manners)
| The acting was riveting. Kulerman's queen was charming, flirtatious, and autocratic by turns. During hallucinatory scenes she |
| remembered her brutal father, her fractured adolescence, and her dead son, to whom she was as bad a parent as her father |
| was to her. Though stout, she was a tiny woman, with tiny feet tucked into embroidered slippers that reminded one of the |
| bound feet of a Chinese concubine, and her life had been just as stunted. During her medicated spells, Kulerman's face is |
| a mask of zonked-out unhappiness. Lepre's writing was superb in the way it wove together the character's unreliable |
| memories and her terror and rage against her present situation. |
| OOBR: Arlene McKanic (The Hat Left Behind) |
Ruth Kulerman was brilliant, authoritarian, whimsical, but funny, good-tempered and kind.
VESTNIK
(NY Russian newspaper): Bella Ezerskaya
(The Idiot)
Best in sustaining the meaty speeches on the part of the actors are Ruth Kulerman and MG.
CURTAIN UP.com:
David Lipfert (The Idiot)
The cast is surprisingly
good, especially Ruth Kulerman.
NBC RADIO: Fleetwood
(Quintessential Image)
Very funny comedy with a fine performance by Ruth Kulerman.
WNEW: Richard Shepard
(Quintessential Image)
A wildly funny two-character verbal farce. Ruth Kulerman is droll,
like a roller coaster running over a string of firecrackers.
VILLAGE VOICE:
Michael Feingold (Quintessential Image)
Funniest late-nite show in town.
(Mother Vale in John Glines' spoof of "Now Voyager.")
VILLAGE VOICE: McNulty
(How Now, Voyager)
| Director Aaron Beall has assembled an apparently able cast but hasn't encouraged them to form relationships with one another --each performs his or her part tolerably well in a sort of vacuum. |
| VILLAGE VOICE: Alexis Soloski (Portia Coughlan) |
| In the course of the day Portia will encounter the scrappy members of her dysfunctional family..her foul-mouthed, wheelchair- |
| bound old harridan of a grandmother, Blaize...Ruth Kulerman is believable as the profane wreck of a grandmother. |
| IRISH ECHO (Largest weekly Irish newspaper): Joseph Hurley (Portia Coughlan) |
Ruth Kulerman makes for a lovably indiscreet
Lacey Lanier, layering dotty manners with sweetly whimsical
aplomb.
BACKSTAGE:
Michael Summers (Quintessential Image)
As the mother, Mary Byrne,
Ruth Kulerman
goes for the poetry.
BACKSTAGE
(Tinker's Wedding)
Ruth Kulerman savors the tasty tidbits of Lucas' wry satire.
BACKSTAGE
(What I Meant Was: by Craig Lucas)
Playing the harried Irish maid, Ruth Kulerman was most amusing.
BACKSTAGE (Alison's House--Mint Theater Co.)
For this exercise in poetic realism, director Aaron Beall and his sturdy cast must continually struggle against their surroundings: [Todo con NADA Show World at the Times Square Show World Theatre].
BACKSTAGE (Portia Coughlan--Todo con NADA)
Wildly improbable. Miss Kulerman is
passable.
JOHN SIMON
(Quintessential Image)
Portia's grandmother, still
a flame-haired firebrand despite being confined to a wheelchair
{character, not actress] makes sure nobody forgets the bad marriages
and low-class taint that afflict the clan today, while the others
try to shut her
up....The cast handles a motley collection of characters very
capably.
OFFOFFOFF.COM:
Joshua Tanzer (Blaize
Scully in Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan -- Todo con NADA)
Horton and Kulerman fare the best among the rest of the supporting
cast.
[ACTOR'S NOTE:
This role has about 20 lines in a play that runs 2 1/2 hours
Off Broadway version]
OffOffOnLine:
Suzanne Lynch (Countess of
Henslowe in Elizabeth Rex--Off Broadway version]
Ruth Kulerman is a quietly
dignified Countess of Henslowe
BROADWAYWORLD.COM: Jena
Tesse Fox (Elizabeth Rex in the Off Broadway version)
A wonderful supporting cast dreates a terrific texture upon which
the main drama unfolds.
TALKING BROADWAY: "The
Siegel Column" (Countess of Henslowe in Elizabeth Rex--Off
Broadway version)
| Preachy Puritanical mother. Perhaps cutting and trimming would allow the audience to focus on the superb acting of every |
| member of the cast. |
| GO Brooklyn (Bklyn Newspaper): Paulanna Simmons (31 Bond: four roles: gay bashing mother of lead and three murder trial witnesses: A loyal Irish chambermaid, |
| an illiterate lovable funeral goer, a feisty NJ farm wife.) |
| It takes real talent, well in command of her art to play 4 different characters--no mistaking one character for the other. Amazed |
| the audience. |
| Brooklyn on line.com: Brett Wynkoop (31 Bond: four roles: gay bashing mother of lead and three murder trial witnesses: A loyal Irish chambermaid, |
| an illiterate, lovable funeral goer, a feisty NJ Farm wife. |
The performances and text are fun.
THEATER WEEK:
Dorothy Chansky (Quintessential Image)
Well sung. Incorporation of music and text is a
key virtue
of the production. (Mrs. Wall, the musician)
THEATRE WEEK:
Joan Ungaro (Holy Ghosts)
A resourceful Ruth Kulerman has a
nice moment in Act One as the flamboyant Mme. Olga St. Valentine.
InTHEATER
(A Loss of Roses)
Mme. Olga St. Valentine
(Ruth Kulerman), an old time actress, is an outspoken, short,
flamboyant redheaded woman.
She shamelessly stashes a pie in her purse--typical behavior of an
eccentric old lady.
CHELSEA CLINTON NEWS:
Mary Anne Christiano (A Loss of Roses)
Triple A. Our highest
rating. Everyone must see this show. Fantastic.
AUDIENCE EXTRAS
(Black, White & Blue)
Skilled, seasoned performer.
TOWN & VILLAGE
(Bedside Manners)
Ruth Kulerman comes tumbling out with life-affirming force in this
hilarious...
NY LAW JOURNAL (Quintessential Image)
Ruth Kulerman's cuddly, unaffected genius endears her to everyone in the house.
NY NATIVE:
(Quintessential Image)
Kulerman is just about
perfect.
NY OUTWEEK
(Quintessential Image)
Played perfectly by Ruth Kulerman.
VILLAGER:
Lucy Rector (Quintessential Image)
Ruth Kulerman is exceptionally funny in this piercing
satire.
GREENPOINT GAZETTE:
Carol Albert (Quintessential Image)
Played with excellent comic flair by Ruth Kulerman.
PRIVATE LIVES
(Quintessential Image)
Ruth Kulerman has been perfectly cast in her role.
DOWNTOWN (Quintessential Image)
Ruth Kulerman is a natural.
WILDE SIDE
(Quintessential Image)
Divertente
[entertaining]
OGGI (New York Italian newspaper):
(Quintessential Image)
Entire cast is just grand... deliciously faithful parody
MARTIN'S GUIDE
(How Now, Voyager)
Domineering mother played like a
queen. (RK as Mother Vale)
VILLAGE PAPER
(How Now Voyager)
Wonderful and endearing in her portrayal of this great
lady. (Aunt Lily--lead)
VILLAGE REVIEW:
Bill Jackson (Key West)
Creates an unusual character in Aunt Lily.
GREENWICH VILLAGE PRESS
(Key West)
Like a reincarnated widow Paroo, Ruth Kulerman
bustles about merrily... Her voice drops a register when tired or exasperated.
NIGHT OUT:
L.D. Coles (Key West)
Good ensemble playing by Ruth Kulerman, ....
OOBR:
Dudley Stone (Anfisa
in Three Sisters)
FILM
REVIEWS:
I thought the
acting was powerful.
Jeffrey Lyons (A
Walk in the Dark)
It
is a well-shot, absorbing tale...with a good cast.
Entertainment Guide:William
Wolf (A Walk in the Dark)
The performances were much
better than one would expect from a straight to dvd horror flick.
One scene in particular
took me by surprise, with Ruth Kulerman as the landlady explaining
some of
the sad history of the hotel. That was flat out Oscar
worthy.
Nellie Kampmann
(The Off Season)
.
Ruth Kulerman is disarmingly real as the landlady, Mrs.
Farthing.
Owen Keehnen (The
Off Season)
McKenney struck gold when casting Ruth Kulerman as "The Viking Motel's" proprietress,
Mrs. Farthing. Kulerman paints an almost caricature portrait of a "colorful" personality who
has a stake in the lives of all around her.
Amazon.com
review (The Off Season)
...Thank God for those two (Angus Scrimm / Christina
Campanella), they're the only real talent in the
film (although honestly old lady Kulerman isn't too bad either.)
FightEvil.com (The
Off Season)
The elderly.
slightly doddering motel owner won me over with her heartfelt
regret at having supplied
the couple with a stain=prone mattress for their unit.
Customer Review at
GoldLyrics.com (Mrs. Farthing, the motel owner, The Off Season)
Because
of the solid acting by people who can act rather than by people
whose performances are edited into
passability, the movie doesn't need to rely on the Holly wood answer
to all--FX!
Custormer Review at
GoldLyrics.com (Principal
actor> The Off Season)
OUT-OF-TOWN THEATRE REVIEWS:
Ruth Kulerman does a sharp, funny bit as the cook.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (Ohio's largest paper)
(Life with Father with Robert Reed)
The acting is uneven, ranging
from one sensitive and fine performance, to adequate to
awful. Ruth Kulerman gives a lovely and thoughtful interpretation
of Norman's wife, Ethel. Kulerman is natural and at ease with every moment of a
challenging role.
Ethel Thayer must be all things to her husband--wife, mother,
and diplomat. She also has to cope with her own vulnerably
aging life. Kulerman does this with aplomb that delights and
surprises in an otherwise dim production. Kulerman's Ethel is
genteel, a lady of quality, who I am positive would never have
considered marrying....
MONTGOMERY NEWS
(On Golden Pond)
The rest of the cast appears
to be performing on a sensational level, particularly Ruth
Kulerman, in the small role of Mrs. Bradman, who is just
marvelous in in creating a character with a decidedly humorous
personality. Ms. Kulerman uses the tight pinched voice and
granny glasses to play a character filled with delightful absurdity.
Again and again a seemingly ordinary line
became a small comic miracle under Ms. Kulerman's performance.
THE TRENTONIAN (Trenton)
(Blithe Spirit)
Wonderfully portrayed... with just the
right touch of absurdity. Ms. Kulerman in particular captures
her character's fragile balance between reality and the world she and her sister have created... like a member of royalty.
PRINCETON PACKET (Arsenic And Old Lace)
Soft but technically polished center... delivery is
charmingly low-key. Commands with deference. Ms. Kulerman's
eyes hold comic lessons for all.
PRINCETON TOWN TOPICS
(Arsenic and Old Lace)
The Perrys are delightful. Ms. Kulerman is
marvelous as the motherly Ima.
NEW ERA (Lancaster, PA)
(The Immigrant)
Ruth Kulerman gives Ima the right amount of flightiness peppered with the
right amount of salt of the earth.
THE DAILY NEWS (Lebanon, PA)
(The Immigrant)
What you most appreciate is the talent of the actors.
My personal favorite is Ruth Kulerman as the manic
depressive mom.
THE DAILY NEWS (Lebanon, PA)
(At Long Last Leo: East Coast Premiere)
Winningly played by Ruth Kulerman
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL (Lancaster, PA)
(The Immigrant)
Colorful. More could have been done with the apparent abilities of Ruth Kulerman.
PATRIOT NEWS (Harrisburg, PA)
(The Immigrant)
Exceptional four-member cast... high level of professionalism.
SUNDAY NEWS (Lancaster, PA)
(The Immigrant)
Ruth Kulerman handled the
semi-psychotic role with ease and grace.
YORK DAILY RECORD (York, PA)
(At Long Last Leo)
Played with style by Ruth Kulerman.
DRAMALOGUE (Hollywood)
(Quintessential Image)
As Peggy, Ruth Kulerman gives
her finest performance of the season.
HERALD JOURNAL (Utah)
(And a Nightingale Sang)
The role of Madam Arcati gets a
vigorous and energetic performance from Ruth Kulerman.
HERALD JOURNAL (Utah)
(Blithe Spirit)
Ruth Kulerman plays Cookie with
extraordinary flair and evokes prolonged laughter.
HERALD JOURNAL (Utah)
(Rumors)
Kulerman comes out swinging
in this production and her portrayal of a middle-aged English mother is
convincing. She always seems to be just a scream away from a breakdown, as a mother in her war-torn position must have been.
THE CITIZEN (Utah)
(And a Nightingale Sang)
The play was performed with real
talent. Ruth Kulerman plays Madame Arcati with
convincing eccentricity to the very end.
THE CITIZEN (Utah)
(Blithe Spirit)
