Press
The Straights
“Paredes is the perfect center for this often wandering shaggy-dog story, unaffected and magnetic.” - Helen Shaw, The Vulture
“Phoebe (Jennifer Paredes) seems perfectly at ease in the dialed-to-11 company of Nina (Mary Glen Fredrick)…” - Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
“Jennifer Paredes as Phoebe, had a similar degree of excellence. Her climactic speech (again, around ten minutes, and again, brilliantly written) astonished me…Ms. Paredes had to carry a huge burden on stage in this play, and she did so beautifully.” - William J. Cataldi, Pup’s Books New York
“…it is Jennifer Paredes’s emotional monologue as Phoebe that steals the show, and the final conversation between the two overshadows all else as the most thought-provoking and relatable moment of the whole show.” - Anthony J Piccione, Outerstage
JACK
“The strongest performances come from Jennifer Paredes as the reluctant Brazilian maid Matilde… Paredes captures perfectly the sassy, upstart quality of Matilde, who serves the play as a kind of Greek chorus, seeking the perfect joke, which ultimately proves to be the laughter intertwined with tears.” - Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold, Broadway World Review
The Clean House
Portland Stage
El Huracán
Yale Repertory Theatre
“Jennifer Paredes is brightly active as Alicia, and she brings the right note of earnest maturity to Val, the college student of 2019.” - Donald Brown, New Haven Review
“Jennifer Paredes pulls on our heartstrings: first as Valeria’s late sister Alicia, and then as Miranda’s daughter Val.” - Lucy Gellman, Newhavenarts.org
“Valeria (the astonishing Adriana Sevahn Nichols) can exist in the Florida of 1992, and yet, due to her dementia, still have visions of her sister Alicia (the entrancing Jennifer Paredes) that come from a distant time period.” - Zander Opper, Zanderopper.com
“Alicia (Jennifer Paredes), seemingly swimming in a yellow bathing suit with turquoise polka dots, makes a touching appearance…Every one of the multi-cast actors is most adept and each is inviting and versatile.” - Fred Sokol, Talking Broadway
American Mariachi
Denver Center for Performing Arts /
The Old Globe Theatre
"Paredes is excellent as the determined and unstoppable Lucha; she carries the emotional arc of the play with a wonderful energy and sense of compassion." - E.H. Reiter, Broadway World
"Paredes manages to evolve in front of our eyes, creating in daughter Lucha a stirring and strong character." - Joanne Ostrow, The Denver Post
"...Paredes — who herself has been a one-woman whirlwind on San Diego stages of late — lends Lucha a winning feel of the irrepressible that helps carry things along." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune
Waking la Llorona
Old Globe Theatre /
La Jolla Playhouse WoW Festival
"I found Dr. Moctezuma (Jennifer Paredes)...She turned her head, and in that moment I found myself being looked at. Considered. Studied. With that one glance I knew I had stepped out of the mundane world and into a charged space. Had I ever been scrutinized like this before? So much weight in such a simple thing: a look. But a look that bore right through me." - Noah Nelson, No Proscenium
Seven Spots on the Sun
InnerMission Prod.
"Jennifer Paredes gives performance of a lifetime as she moves from young bride to army wife...she moves effortlessly to the pleading mother of a feverish child to the helpless wife begging for her child’s life." - Carol Davis, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
"Jennifer Paredes and Bernardo Mazón create fiery sparks and tension as Monica and Luis." - Pam Kragen, San Diego Union Tribune
"The cast seems to be profoundly connected to the material. The four outstanding central performances (the two couples) carve out emotionally complex characters and credible relationships." - Pat Launer, Times of San Diego
"Paredes also excels (she’s really getting good!) especially when she must make high risk emotional shifts in seconds." - Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
"Paredes alternates (wondrously) between the almost motionless Ceci, who lies comatose on a mattress in the living room, and an animated, magical state in which Ceci talks and leaps about, recalling for family and audience what really happened the night of the accident." - Charlene Baldridge, Gay San Diego
"Special kudos to Jennifer Paredes, who quick-changes between the handicapped, virtually immobile Ceci and the vivacious young 15-year-old as if it were easy." - Jean Lowerson, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News
"Jennifer Paredes deserves special mention for her mesmerizing duality, curled into herself for the paralyzed, brain-damaged exterior that pulses with a free, lyrical, sensual inner life." -Pat Launer, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
Lydia
Ion Theatre
"Paredes is adorably pert and spunky as the flouncily feminine Angelica, and aptly macha as her antithetical, caballero pants-wearing, take-no-prisoners sister, Luisa, a staunch lesbian who runs The First Feminista Book Club..." - Pat Launer, Times of San Diego
"Paredes is so good you can’t help but be charmed." - Jean Lowerison, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News
"The excellent Jennifer Paredes lights it up as both daughters." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune
"Jennifer Paredes plays both sisters and is a marvel in the fast change category as she changes from feminine gowns to buckskin pants and top." - Carol Davis, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle
"Dynamic Jennifer Paredes plays operatically emotional Angelica and her “progressive” sister Luisa, for whom even the 21st Century might not be up to speed" - Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
Manifest Destinitis
San Diego Repertory Theatre
"Paredes injects a winning sense of lightness and hope, even as Savannah can’t help but behave badly." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune
"Paredes is spot-on in her portrayal of the spunky Savannah."- Jean Lowerison, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News
"Ms. Paredes continues to impress: she’s unafraid to make Savannah an unattractive teenager who is disruptive while deluding herself that she’s being helpful and supportive." - Bill Eadie, San Diego Story
"Paredes as Savannah brings a lovely sense of hope." - Erinmarie Reiter, Daily Actor
Ballast
Diversionary Theatre
"Paredes in particular turning in some tart scenes as the candid, hard-edged and ever-kinetic Avery." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune
"Director Sam Woodhouse has assembled a fine cast for this thought-provoking, if sometimes maddening play, spearheaded by Paredes’ acidic and very today Avery." - Jean Lowerison, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News
Rapture, Blister, Burn
San Diego Repertory Theatre
Into the Beautiful North
San Diego Repertory Theatre
"Paredes...is a fiery and funny Vampi, and plays a mean ukulele to boot." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune
"Jennifer Paredes is a hoot as Latina goth Vampi..." - Jean Lowerison, San Diego Gay and Lesbian News
"It would be near impossible to go wrong with Jennifer Paredes (one of SD’s most in-demand actors) as defiant Vampi." - Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
Perfect Arrangement
Intrepid Theatre Co
"Paredes, who has had an eye-opening string of strong performances on stages around town of late, conveys a convincing sense of deep conflict as Norma, who can no longer handle her own hypocrisy." - James Herbert, San Diego Union Tribune