Diane Davis
Nice Girl
Jo
“Jo is portrayed with fine delicacy by Diane Davis ... Ms. Davis has a fine sense of the tentative rhythms of her characters’ interaction, which is pocked with silences that resonate with feeling.”
— Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“Two years ago, Diane Davis made a powerful impression as the obscenely monstrous daughter of a retired couple in The Model Apartment. As the title character in Melissa Ross’s absorbing Nice Girl, she’s equally persuasive—less shocking but subtle and touching—as a very different woman at odds with her elderly mother. Davis pulls off the difficult feat of making shyness dramatically compelling, suggesting wheels of emotion turning behind the mostly placid surface.”
— Adam Feldman, Time Out Magazine
Model Apartment
Deborah
“The play wouldn’t have the impact it does without Diane Davis, as the daughter, who gives as vivid and harrowing a portrayal of mental illness as any I’ve seen onstage. She’s a merciless monster in pink sweatpants: scary, relentless, mesmerizing ...”
— Richard Zoglin, Time Magazine
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Iris
“Diane Davis gives a simply extraordinary performance”
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“... a heat-exuding Diane Davis ...”
— Heidi Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
American Daughter
Lyssa
“… delivered with precisely calibrated, escalating fury by Diane Davis during Williamstown Theatre Festival’s handsome, strongly acted production.”
— Steve Barnes, Albany Times Union
