Laura Bess Jernigan

Fuddy Meers Reviews

" and a rewarding Laura Bess Jernigan made with the laughs as Heidi, a lovelorn prison cafeteria chef."

- Byron Woods

Indy Week

"while Laura Bess Jernigan’s cop Heidi gets laughs revealing her true self."

- Roy C. Dicks

The News and Observer

Eleemosynary Reviews

Passionate Portrayals By Maggie Rasnick, Susannah Hough, and Laura Jernigan Make Eleemosynary a Winner

“ . . . and Laura Jernigan gives a personable performance as Echo, whose quixotic quest to rejoin her fugitive mother turns out to be a vocabulary builder.”  “Long-time REP artistic director Glen Matthews skillfully explores the history and dynamics of this oddball family, and makes ELEEMOSYNARY a warm and winning drama with many truths about life and love to teach and three exceptional actresses to teach them.”

Robert McDowell
Classical Voice of North Carolina

 

“Director C.Glen Matthews' discretion is evident with this talented cast; as usual in his work, the sense of ensemble here is palpable. . .  Newcomer Laura Jernigan is simply winning as Echo,  . . . Her final declamations, however, convince us that transmutation of pain is possible—and that it's only accomplished through an individual's charity.”
22 APR 2009  •  by Byron Woods
Independent Weekly

Odd Couple: The Female Version Reviews

“The gritty girls who gather in Olive's Riverside Drive Apartment on Friday nights for cutthroat games of Trivial Pursuit -- Sylvie (Leanne Norton Heintz), Mickey the Cop (Laura Jernigan), Renee (Rosa Wallace), and
Vera (Colleen Ann Guest) -- are each given personality and pizzazz by the exceptionally strong supporting cast”  “and
with Colleen Guest, Leanne Heintz, Laura Jernigan, and Rosa Wallace squeezing laugh after laugh from their meaty supporting roles -- Stillwater Theatre scores a major triumph.”
Robert McDowell
Classical Voice of North Carolina

Titus Andronicus Review

"Laura Jernigan was dynamic as Titus’ brother Marcus, an outspoken Roman tribune;"
Robert McDowell
Classical Voice of North Carolina

Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman Reviews

"Stillwater's cast goes far in disguising Fo's excesses. Laura Jernigan is consistently entertaining as Elizabeth, her deluded élan and foulmouthed imperiousness a cross between the Divine Miss M and Norma Desmond. Jernigan has an unbelievable amount of dialogue, and it's superbly dispatched . . ."

Roy C. Dicks
The News And Observer

"The (not-so-)Virgin Queen (played with great gusto by Meredith senior theater major Laura Jernigan) is a certifiable paranoid personality with a plethora of real enemies. . . . Laura Jernigan is every inch a wide-eyed mad monarch, mercurial in her mood swings, beset by faithless lovers, and relentlessly stalked by a succession of assassins dispatched by her enemies, both foreign and domestic. "
Robert McDowell
Classical Voice of North Carolina

"Set in Elizabethan England, the play revolves around the queen, played by a fresh-faced Laura Jernigan, and the impending rebellion of her lover, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. We find Queen Bess reacting to this impending crisis by morphing from an enraged lunatic cursing at the help to a withered female trying to enlarge her breasts."  "In delivering this nearly three-hour-long farce, Jernigan and her supporting cast give the audience a nod and wink. Are we really talking about the Elizabethan age? Or are we poking fun at our own irrational leaders?"
Kathy Justice
Independent Weekly

A Midsummer Night's Dream Review

“Laura Jernigan, Chuck Keith, Lance Rappaport, Dean Rayburn, Kacey Reynolds, and especially Rebecca Blum are hilarious as a group of artisans rehearsing their preposterous play, The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe, for competition to be performed at the upcoming nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta.”
Robert McDowell
Classical Voice of North Carolina

Much Ado About Nothing Review

"She is not afraid to play up the sexuality of the characters and the attractiveness of the cast, even changing one part from male to female to add a romantic relationship between two conspirators."
Roy C. Dicks
News and Observer