Performance Reviews

"And then there is Brennan, with a marvelously expressive voice that moves with staggering facility from a near-operatic range to the flat speech-song required by Weill. Her Pirate Jenny is chilling."
-Richard Huntington


"Kelly Meg Brennan, as Jenny, was a pleasant surprise in the role of the tantalizing and erotic harlot. Kelly Meg Brennan's eyes burned with conviction, and her movements were definite and forthright; she naturally commanded attention, most importantly, however, Kelly Meg Brennan's mezzo vice was the musical high point in the show. Her classical training has paid off in the form of excellent elocution, phrasing, intonation, and a foxy vibrato to boot!' 
-Eric J. Starr


"With her pleasing and confident voice, her sultry delivery and her easy command of the stage, Kelly Meg Brennan wows them as Jenny. At one point, Miss Brennan must sing while being turned slowly on a box by two actors-I wish they would cut it before she falls! She is too talented to lose"
-Anthony Chase


"Kelly Meg Brennan (character C) was excellent in the role of the young woman. In Act II Brennan shined during the monologue about her character's first lover. Seductive and charismatic, Brennan evinced just the right vocal clarity, countenance and body movements to bring candor a role others might bring mere ambiguity and vagary.
-Eric J. Starr


"The dusky sensation, almost as if it were innately scripted by the performers, proceeded with the mezzo-soprano voice of Kelly Meg Brennan, (the Singer), who harbored a fiery, yet elegantly polished eclipse of the human spirit; a speechless foreshadowing, deeply encompassed with, at times, a melancholic tone, paralyzing the audience from viewing the play as most Americans do- a cheery 'good time'."
-Michael Petryshyn


"The music is appropriately Spanish in flavor and by the time narrator Kelly Meg Brennan joins in with her mournful vocal introduction, this show's weighty emotional tone is quite apparent."
-Darwen McPherson


"The guys are terrific, but especially engaging are the superbly nuanced performances of Barbara Link La Rou and Kelly Meg Brennan as Lady Bracknell and her daughter Gwendolen, respectively. Not only do they bring red hair, grace, fine line readings and rich contralto voices to their roles, but their characters impose their hidebound upper-class agenda while basking in an aura of heightened femininity and sensuality. Wonderful, wonderful!"
-Patricia Donovan


"The production looks glorious, and the entire cast clicks into the style of the piece with perfection. The laughs build momentum in waves, and embrace the entire theater. Kelly Brennan and Lona Geiser play Gwendolen and Cecily with flawless precision. Never a laugh is missed-unless it is lost in the audible glee of the audience over the one preceding."
-Anthony Chase


"A familiar face graced the stage in frill Victorian elegance when Kelly Meg Brennan appeared in the role of Gwendolen, a product of the higher end of living where the finer things in life are embraced with little or no emotion. Her animated beauty is simply nulled because of the outrageousness of her spirit. In other words, many laughs are shared between the audience when Brennan is on stage. Brennan captures the comic essence of her role and flourishes with every satiric line of dialogue."
-Michael Petryshyn


"Kelly Brennan finds just the right degree of outlandish snobbery in her portrayal of Gwendolen."
-Kurt Schniederman


"Kelly Meg Brennan, stands in front of three intensely bright fluorescent bulbs standing vertically. Clad in a glittery black dress befitting a siren, she belts out a beautiful section from Heitor Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras.” When she finishes, the lights flicker off, and she walks slowly and stylistically across the stage (a Torn Space trademark move). The lights surround her, and consequently the negative space of her image has been seared into audience members’ eyes, so that whenever they blink, for at least the next 20 minutes, they see her and think of her song. Brennan, whose singing ends the evening with two arias from Verdi’s “La Traviata,” is herself a force to behold and a beautiful set of parentheses to a dark night at the theater."
-Colin Dabkowski

"The Opera singer Kelly Meg Brennan beautifully carved the wistfulness of “Ah, Fors e Lui”, and prepared herself for losing love and life in “Addio de Passata”, both awesome sung with a cappella skill and clarity. Her arm upraised from shadow slowly dropped before the flames."
-Willy Rogue Donaldson

"Kelly Meg Brennan gives a bravura performance as Petra, intimidating here, impulsive there, the approach to final implosion gradual and operatic. A stunning role, Brennan beautifully garbed by Melissa Meola - with credit to Brennan's "expansive closet." The extraordinary Brennan is aided by Kara Mckenney as Karin, likeable but maddening; the always precise Katie White."
-Ted Hadley

"Perhaps the most luminous of the newcomers, Kelly Meg Brennan as Gabriel’s  wife, Gretta, adds a whole new layer of emotion. Gentle, sympathetic and ultimately quite vulnerable, Ms. Brennan offers a very real and undiscovered facet to the Conroy’s seemingly perfect marriage. It is a painful secret she keeps and the exquisitely genuine manner in which Greta holds, and then releases this secret produces a very rich tableau for Mr. Riggs, who takes full advantage. Together the couple delivers the knock-out which is at the heart of Joyce’s story."
-Neil Garvey

"Brennan’s recent performance in Some Explicit Polaroids at Torn Space was called “transformative”—yet another success for the acclaimed singer and actor."
-Buffalo Spree
 

Bachelors of Arts and Letters summa cum laude, Buffalo State College 
 Masters of Fine Arts, Goddard 

Buffalo Spree Best Actress of the Year 2010 / Artie Award Best Production 2011, 2001, 2000 / Artie Award Best Actress 2010 / Best Debut 2000

Artie Award Nominations Best Actress  2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 Artie Award Nomination Best Ensemble 2005, 2005