RECOGNITION
Tony Award Nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play” - Linda Vista (Second Stage Theater)
Ovation Award Nomination: “Featured Actress In a Play” - Linda Vista (Center Theatre Group)
After Dark Award: “Outstanding Performance” - Book of Days (Raven Theatre)
Jeff Citation Nomination: “Actress In Supporting Role” - Dead End (Griffin Theatre)
Scene Stealers: Actors to Watch - Chicago Tribune
"(Cora Vander Broek) seems to improve every ensemble in which she finds herself. Funny, self-aware, self-effacing, passionate and unflaggingly honest, no Chicago fringe actress more deserves a shot at the big time."
REVIEWS
LINDA VISTA | TRACY LETTS | BROADWAY
“NYTIMES CRITICS PICK! The women we meet in ‘Linda Vista’ are a diverse lot. They are beautifully portrayed! It feels fitting that the women outnumber the men here…And each female character, in her own way, has learned how to navigate an environment that has been polluted by misogyny.” -New York Times. LINDA VISTA | SECOND STAGE | BROADWAY
“From the moment Vander Broek stepped on stage, you knew this woman. You fall in love with Jules just as Wheeler does. The bravery to disrobe nightly is commendable, but the actress also expertly manages to twist the moment from sensual to comedic to tragic. As if those stunning emotional acrobatics weren’t enough to win you over, Vander Broek also lands the best line delivery of the play. After Wheeler begs her to come back to him, she smiles and shuts him down: ‘I respect myself too much.’ Whereas the audience booed Wheeler earlier, they erupted into applause and cheers for Vander Broek. -GOLD DERBY TONY PREDICTIONS. LINDA VISTA | SECOND STAGE | BROADWAY
“Vander Broek handles herself with dignity and poise, making her hard lessons the heartbeat of the play.” -The Hollywood Reporter. LINDA VISTA | THE MARK TAPER FORUM | CENTER THEATRE GROUP.
LINDA VISTA | TRACY LETTS | MARK TAPER FORUM
“Cora Vander Broek is endlessly surprising, wearing Jules’ open vulnerability with fearless aplomb.”-LA Stage and Cinema. LINDA VISTA | THE MARK TAPER FORUM | CENTER THEATRE GROUP.
LINDA VISTA | TRACY LETTS | STEPPENWOLF THEATRE
WHERE WE STARTED | HANSEN FILMS
"The performances are first-rate: Vander Broek forcefully conveys Jill's complex mixture of anguish and aggression." -Hollywood Reporter | BLUR CIRCLE | Theoretical Entertainment
"It's Vander Broek's show; she's damn good!"-LA Weekly. WHERE WE STARTED | Theoretical Entertainment
SOUPS, STEWS, AND CASSEROLES: 1976 | GOODMAN THEATRE
"Fall's excellent production, rooted in a specific time and place, gets first-rate performances form Cliff Chamberlain and Cora Vander Broek as a couple caught up in the contradictions of capitalism." -Michael Billington | The Guardian. SOUPS,STEWS,AND CASSEROLES: 1976 | GOODMAN THEATRE
"Vander Broek, playing the author's most sympathetic character, bursting with so much heart, energy and vitality that you intuit what this woman could have achieved with more opportunity outside of Kevin Depinet's period-specific Wisconsin home setting." -Chris Jones | Chicago Tribune. SOUPS,STEWS,AND CASSEROLES: 1976 | GOODMAN THEATRE
IN THE NEXT ROOM/THE VIBRATOR PLAY | ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE
"Vander Broek is a thrilling choice to portray Catherine Givings." -Thirdcoast Digest. IN THE NEXT ROOM (or the vibrator play) | ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE & MILWAUKEE REPERTORY.
"Disconnections abound in Ruhl’s world. They are embodied most powerfully by Givings’s wife, Catherine, brilliantly played by Cora Vander Broek." -Inside Milwaukee. IN THE NEXT ROOM (or the vibrator play) | ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE & MILWAUKEE REPERTORY.
"Cora Vander Broek stands out from a rock-solid cast." -Chicago Reader. MADAGASCAR | NEXT THEATRE, CHICAGO.
"HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Vander Broek paints a fine portrait of a trapped and wounded young woman." -Chicago Sun Times. MADAGASCAR | NEXT THEATRE, CHICAGO.
MADAGASCAR | NEXT THEATRE