Press
AWARDS
2010 B. Iden Payne Best Lead Actress in a Drama2010 Austin Live Theatre Applause Most Promising New Actress
REVIEWS
Dog Sees God
“Xochitl Romero as Tricia and Bethany Esfandiari as Marcy deserve some kind of award for hilarity. Pulling off their roles individually would’ve been tricky enough, but their tandem acting creates a sort of third being as they play off each other brilliantly, their cafeteria cocktail scene enough to make you spit milk out your nose.”
-Spike Gillespie Austinist.com
Blackbird
“Over 75 minutes we learn much about these two—how they are now, and how they were then—and come about as close to comprehending people in their situation as we can without being inside their skins. To carry us that far, however, requires actors who are willing to crawl inside these characters' skins . . . In Hyde Park Theatre's production, actors Ken Webster and Xochitl Romero prove their willingness to do just that. . . . Their performances show honesty and commitment.”
-Robert Faires KUT Radio
“Xochitl Romero, who received huge acclaim for her role in Hyde Park Theatre’s Dog Sees God... plays Una with china doll fragility; with each hairline fracture, the audience wonders at what point she’s finally going to break. When this moment finally comes in a desperate rage, even the most cynical members of the audience will find themselves working to hold back tears...When these two characters come together, Webster and Romero do the impossible: they make a situation so awful, so heinous, and actually make it understandable, even relatable.”
-Ryan E. Johnson Austin.com
A Midsummer Nights Dream
They all knew how to wrap their mouths around Shakespeare's lines, to deliver meaning, character and poetry. Their only equal in that regard was Xochitl Romero as the fair eloper, Hermia. Romero, as Hermia, is angered, excited, eloping, prudish, abandoned, distraught, elated but then bewildered, finally triumphant, and then captivated by the actions of the play of the rude mechs. The action of the play turns upon Hermia, and Romero keeps her believable and fresh at every point in the progression.”
-Austinlivetheatre.com
The Grapes of Wrath
“Others, however, are able to do the most they can with their limited time on stage, including up-and-comer Xochitl Romero, previously seen in Hyde Park’s Dog Sees God and Blackbird as well as FronteraFest hit Drowned World, whose trademark sad vulnerability adds some nice depths to the role of Rose of Sharon.”
-Austin.com
“And the fragile Rose of Sharon (Xochitl Romero) in the final, exquisite, terrifying tableau, as in a pietà portrays the sublime spirituality and the condemned animal nature of humanity.”
-Austinlivetheatre.com