NYTHEATRE.COM, MAY, 2008: Katie Northlich directs herself in Bethany Larsen's Manhattan: Greater and Greater Things, a heartfelt monologue about the ever-changing face of the Big Apple. Northlich is extremely comfortable and flat-out funny in this bittersweet diatribe of a lifelong love/hate relationship with her city. The language of the piece and the confident timing of the delivery are in perfect sync. The speaker is a native New Yorker. We feel her pain. Her eternal despair and hope is palpable.

PLAYBILL.COM, MAY, 2008: Manhattan gets Bethany Larsen's Hot Corn Girls featuring monologue champ extraordinaire, Katie Northlich.

MANHATTAN MONOLOGUE SLAM, DEC, 2006: In the end Katie Northlich had what the majority of the judges were looking for and took home the title, the cash and a free studio session with photographer M. Cippaghila.

THE PRINCETON PACKET, AUGUST, 2006: "Katie Northlich is a wonderful Maria, her comedic talents readily apparent. Look for great things in her future." 

MANHATTAN MONOLOGUE SLAM, MARCH, 2006: Actress Molly Shannon sat front row center in New York City’s latest MMSlam... The very technical procedure to break an MMSlam tie is as follows: judges huddle and go with their gut instinct! After a short deliberation Katie Northlich was awarded the win in a show that featured everything with material from Shakespeare to George C. Wolfe’s The Colored . -MMSLAM.COM UPDATES

NYTHEATRE.COM REVIEW, APRIL, 2006: "The three fantastic actresses in this piece, Cynthia Rice, Lauren Mary Gleason, and Katie Northlich, seem to be having so much fun with Bethany Larsen's story, nailing the way women talk to each other obsessively about men."

**NEW YORK MAGAZINE NAMES KATIE AN OFF-OFF BROADWAY PICK OF THE WEEK, OCT. 3RD EDITION, 2005

JESTERJOURNAL.COM REVIEW, JULY, 2005: "One of these, “Normal Cop,” is stolen by Katie Northlich as the schizophrenic good cop and bad cop all rolled into one. "

JESTERJOURNAL.COM REVIEW, AUGUST, 2005:

 Character Forum: A Thesis, Juvie Hall, 8/10/05

A talented creator of comic characters, Katie Northlich takes her new one-woman show beyond just showcasing those characters, adding an extra layer of humor in the interaction between one of her characters and all the rest.

As Rayna Bernham, a zealous Columbia University journalism student, Northlich frames the rest of the characters as subjects of Rayna’s interviews in a broadcast journalism thesis being presented as the show. Within this structure, Northlich reveals facets of Rayna’s character -- switching between Rayna and the other characters -- piece by piece over the course of this one-hour show, building a pattern of Rayna pushing her interviewees to change something about their lives, usually by taking risks they are reluctant to take.

From this, Northlich pulls unexpected comedy out of the interviewee characters’ reactions to Rayna -- which are far from compliant. For all the flaws Northlich puts in the other characters, both male and female, including a Queens grandmother, a female singer-songwriter of limited success, a Wall Street hotshot, a butcher, a beat poet, a Minnesota housewife and a butch female attorney -- none are mere caricatures. Northlich makes each of them very different people, displaying a clear skill at crafting multiple personas.

As a result, “Character Forum: A Thesis” becomes more than just a showcase, but a comedic work as developed as any comedic play with multiple actors and a playwright’s script would be.