PRESS

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  "Best performance by a female in a play: Camille Mana, Asuncion"
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  "a delightful Camille Mana"
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  "Mana is bubbly and joyful in the title role, and she makes it clear that this young woman is a lot smarter than she seems."
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  "Camille Mana with a take-no-prisoners daring"
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  "a blithe spirit in Camille Mana's animated performance"
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  "the buoyant, lovely Camille Mana"
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  "Mana's appealing performance"

• NY Theatre Review

  "Camille Mana's performance as Asuncion is one of those rare turns in which the actress so fully and convincingly embodies the character that at some point you are a little stunned to have to remind yourself that the woman onstage is actually acting. This is perhaps all the more impressive when you step back and realize that the character as written feels like a stereotype of a newly arrived immigrant of the East Asian female persuasion. She flits, Tinkerbell-like, around the apartment, a ball of smiling pink girlish energy, telling us that Mariah Carey is her hero and that the U.S. is like a “pop song nation”—pared down to only the best, catchiest parts. Thinking back, we’re hit with the sense that while she is inescapably familiar, we’ve actually never met a real person like her, which makes Mana’s exuberantly natural performance all the more impressive."

• Jesse Eisenberg

  "There was something in her that was totally distinct. First of all, she has incredible comic timing, which is to me, impossible to learn — you either have it or you don’t have it. She has it in spades. She is also fantastic dramatically, and she brings an innocence to this person who is sexualized by the characters. If she, as an actress, was just bringing the surface sexuality to it, it would confirm the guys’ naive assumptions about her. But what she does is bring something so sweet and innocent to it, so it complicates it in a wonderful way."
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  "Mana's graceful, open-hearted performance"
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  "Camille Mana's natural charm and stage presence go a long way toward making Asuncion seem like a real person rather than a collection of red herrings."
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  "Camille Mana shines as Asuncion"
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  "the very strong Mana"
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  "Mana is perfect as the beautiful, confident and warm immigrant woman whose arrival challenges her hosts’ preconceived notions about Asian women. While they would be most comfortable reducing her to an ethnic stereotype, she never becomes one."

• NY Theater Examiner

  "Ms. Mana is perfectly adorable and frisky"
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  "an adorable Camille Mana"
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  "Ms. Mana is delightful as the title character"
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  "A huge surprise from the show came from Camille Mana’s performance as the play’s title character. Sharing the stage with three well-known actors, Mana was a revelation as she stole every scene. From her enthusiastic entrance to a silly dance routine set to Ke$ha’s “Blah Blah Blah,” and ending with a heart-wrenching confrontation, she lit up the Cherry Lane Theater from start to finish- however clichéd, she is this season’s 'actress-to-watch.'"
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  "The real discovery is Camille Mana, supremely delightful in her New York debut as the well intentioned and fairly naïve Asuncion, who gives the character more humanity than is actually written."
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  "A sparkling Camille Mana"
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  "Camille Mana gloriously renders Amanda as a high-energy art student and Leo pickup who’s an almost-one-night-stand. She appears in only one scene, but nearly steals the show."
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  "While [Amanda] at first seems like a stock floozy, Mana surprises us with her sharp, clever and funny performance."
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  "In one hilarious scene, Leo hooks up with an art school party girl named Amanda (a sparkling turn by Camille Mana). In just a few moments, Herzog summons up the mystery and sadness of a one-night stand that goes off the rails. She also creates a wonderfully warm twist on the manic pixie dream girl theme."
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  "In one of the play’s more hilarious and poignant scenes, Leo brings home Amanda (the dazzling Camille Mana). When the evening’s promise descends deftly from the euphoria of a potential night of passion to a clumsily aborted one-night stand both character’s vulnerabilities are sharply revealed."
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  "Camille Mana (Asuncion) gives an engaging performance as the art student Amanda."

• ARTHound

  "Camille Mana is delightful as inebriated Parson’s student who Leo brings home for a make-out session that is interrupted by Vera."
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  "In a cameo that walks away with the show, Camille Mana is hilarious as a one-night-stand Leo brings back to grandma’s apartment for a little fling, interrupted by Vera stumbles onto the scene."