Review Quotes


"Sturdy, old fashioned realness."
--Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Doubt)

"Brings matinee idol looks and a powerful talent to the role of Father Flynn."
--Manning Harris, Atlanta Intown (Doubt)

“As the dark and brooding Richard…Mr. (Piper) is especially interesting.”
--Neil Genzlinger, New York Times (Richard 3)

"Thomas Piper makes a fine Lewis"
--Neil Genzlinger, New York Times (The Great Divorce)

“Thomas Piper has a Mystic quality”
--Julie Sharbutt, off-off online (As I Lay Dying)

“He’s a funny guy”
--Alicia Anstead, Bangor Daily News

"Thomas Piper plays McMurphy as a bigger-than-life bird, a balls-to-the-wall, pedal-to-the-metal kind of guy who bursts into the action with such vigor he shifts the atmospheric pressure. He's tall, well-built, handsome, reckless"
--Kathy Janich, Backstage.com (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest)

"Piper makes a live-wire, testosterone-fueled McMurphy and reminds me less of Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning 1975 take on the role than Josh Holloway's swaggering Sawyer character on "Lost." Piper's irrepressible physicality and carnival-barker delivery carry the show like a runaway train."
--Curt Holman, Creative Loafing (Cuckoos Nest)

"Thomas Piper has the unenviable task of assuming a role made famous by Jack Nicholson, and yet his portrait of the character is marvelously calibrated—prone to "outbreaks of passion" one minute, sly insinuations the next"
--Burt Osbourne, The Sunday Paper (Cuckoos Nest)

“With penetrating eyes and a rolling voice, Piper provides a terrific performance as a disillusioned man of the cloth.”
--Curt Holman, Creative Loafing (The Diviners)

“Brings Passion to Orpheus”
--Jay Handelman, Herald Tribune (Metamorphoses)

“with a few well timed pratfalls… (Piper) possesses the comic timing and ability even a young Dick Van Dyke might have envied”
--Amy Laughinghouse, Creative Loafing (Barefoot in the park)

“Piper gives the performance of the evening… Lucky has only one speech, but Piper transforms the “skull in Connemara” ramble into a lurchingly poetic tour de force”
--Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Waiting for Godot)

“Thomas Piper is superb, his doe eyed gaze and fly-catching facial posture mere finishing touches on a finely tuned portrayal.”
--Susan Elliot, Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Cash on Delivery)

"Most likely to be the new San Diego Chicken"
--High School Yearbook




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