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WORLDWIDE DISBURSER OF VERBAL ENTERTAINMENTS

L to R: Amy Silverman, Danny Rothman in FOLLOWING, NYC; Aidan Synnott, Graham Elwell, Joyce Springer in IMPOSTORS, London; Ryan Dietz in MICROCOSM (part of SCREWUPS), NYC; Matt Boethin, Matt Knight in PAGE-TURNER (part of SCREWUPS), NYC; Ted Reis in THE FACE OF GOD, San Diego.

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Summer Shorts (including "Parent Interview," Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, 2008)

"City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival is on any true South Florida arts aficionado's short list of must-see theater... the 13-year-old festival is consistently good" -- Miami Herald

"In one of the funniest shorts, Justin Warner's Parent Interview, we join a couple as they bay to a Montessori director, played with Stalinist aplomb by Elena Garcia..." -- Miami ArtZine

"In perhaps the two funniest plays, parents go to great lengths to secure spots in a private school for their 5-year-old daughter in [Justin Warner's] Parent Interview; and local playwright Michael McKeever gives us a glimpse of what was going on backstage at Ford's Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was was assassinated in Laura Keene Goes On." -- Miami SunPost

"The woes of social climbing parents are hilariously skewered when a pair of New York yuppies attempts to get their toddler into a top-notch Montessori academy, but are confronted with a shocking (and extremely funny) obstacle to [her] admission, in Justin Warner’s Parent Interview." -- Express

"Other standouts are [Justin Warner's] Parent Interview, about a couple trying to get their kid into an elite kindergarten..." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“A rather shocking but hilarious twist" -- Boca Raton News

Impostors (NYC & London, 2006)

"A deliciously well written play... worthy of the West End" - Theatreworld UK

"Gently heart-wrenching and surprisingly thought-provoking... darkly funny and close to the bone" - ExtraExtra (London)

"A script with a ready wit, played with a light, but never flippant, touch." - MyLondonYourLondon

"A sterling piece of theatre" - TheStage Online UK

"Unusual conditions of the brain, by their dysfunction, shine a brighter light on normalcy. This is a premise ably advanced in Justin Warner's Impostors..." - OnOFFOFF (NYC)

"Warner does a terrific job of making us feel the weight of the history between [the parents]..." - nytheatre.com

"An intriguing new drama" -- ReviewsGate UK

"These plays show the human mind both hampered and augmented by its neurological state, and Impostors does so admirably." - Lablit.com

"I would also recommend the writing by Justin Warner in Impostors..." - Hi! Drama Review (NYC TV)

"It really is a must-see!" - IndieLondon

Cinderella's Mice (NYC, 2006)

"Justin Warner's book subverts other fairy-tale conventions. The Prince is a bit of a wimp, while Cinderella shows spunk... Whina, an infantile stepsister, is obsessed with ponies, and Mona, the other sibling, is hilariously played by a man in drag... This show finds a way for Spencer to behave selflessly and have his feast (and eat it too)." - New York Times

"An entertaining new take on the Cinderella story... The book, by Justin Warner, is novel and original... Plenty of fun." - Off-Off Broadway Review

"The show's a delight" - Big Apple Parent

Screwups (NYC, 2005)

"Hilarious... wildly amusing... a night of theatre that audiences will laugh about for days." - Off-Off-Broadway Review

"The ticket price was a bargain for the laughs I got from this fast paced comedic experience." - RetroVision Theater

Miscellaneous

"In the throes of the play's constant and often very funny banter, the actors seem to have a ball, and the feeling is contagious to the audience" - Los Angeles Downtown News (Impostors)

"Good writing is also the star of Justin Warner's [one-act] Eleven Southern Spices..." - Orlando Sentinel

"The pleasingly neurotic one-liners and romantic situations are genuinely charming" - LA Weekly (Perfect)

"Due to Warner's clever writing, [the play] has very funny twists and hilarious repartee" - The Islander (FL) (Impostors)

"An excellent mix of pathos and humor" - Ft Myers Beach Observer (Impostors)

"A full success... You should go see this play." - Wichita State University student paper (Impostors, student production)