"I Used to Write on Walls!"

D'Elia starred in Bekah Brunsetter's popular "I Used to Write on Walls!" - "Tina D'Elia nicely differentiates two sexually frustrated moms."
-- Robert Hurwitt, The San Francisco Chronicle, January 2010


Groucho: A Day in the D’Elia Soup

“Tina D’Elia’s multi-character one-woman play…is startling riveting, engaging, fabulous!”
-- Patrick Letellier, Frontiers Magazine, June 2001

“D’Elia is a tour-de-force on stage, turning on a dime from one character to the next, bantering back and forth between them, and as Tina, trying to suppress the irrepressible Groucho. She is a natural comedian, with the zany facial expressions and perfect timing of, say, Lucille Ball – make that Lucy and Ricky rolled into one, with energy to spare. “Groucho: A Day in the D’Elia Soup” wit have you laughing out loud so much that you will miss some lines, and have you wondering how-in-heck D’Elia does it.”
-- Patrick Letellier, The Slant, August 2001

“D’Elia is clearly a talented performer. Her solo show starts with a delicious conceit: faced with a Cinco de Mayo that includes dinner with her visiting grandparents from Colombia, a mother begging her not to come to the conservative older folks, an uber butch girlfriend who’s supposed to stay closeted for the night, and a pressing meeting with a police official t discuss hate crimes, overstressed Latina Lesbian activist Tina does the only sensible thing: she begins channeling Groucho Marx. It’s a wonderfully rich idea that allows D’Elia t satirize old-school misogyny and racism while simultaneously portraying Tina’s own closeted self, her conflicted relationship to her powerful sexuality, and her repressed sense of anarchy.”
-- Brad Rosenstein, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2001


Groucho: the Film

“A zany side splitting slapstick comedy… through the queer looking glass.”
-- Zak Szymanski, Assistant Editor, Bay Area Reporter