| Zorro - Lifeline Theatre ... light man John Sanchez and sound master Victoria DeIorio, conjure rollicking horse rides, rousing brawls, daredevil chases and a couple of "big kiss" scenes as if on a full film set. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun Times Like every good melodrama, "Zorro" comes with a manipulative score. -Barbara Vitello - Daily Herald Podría afirmar que se trata de un espectáculo que salta de lo teatral a lo cinematográfico debido a la pista sonora. La música envuelve a la platea, la cual no es sólo oída a manera de cortina musical sino también en vivo cuando el grupo de caballeros canta al compás de las cuerdas. -Por Elio Leturia Colaborador diario HOY Sound designer Victoria DeIorio's often-subtle work adds to the ambience. -Web Behrens - Chicago Free Press |
| Cymbeline - Milwaukee Shakespeare The simplistic, yet abstract set design left the imagination wandering. The play's use of special effects and magnificent sound also captivated me. -Eric Jacobi - ericjacobi.com |
| Candles to the Sun - eclipse theatre company Superb sound design and musical direction of Victoria DeIorio (with a fiddler, harmonica player and mountain voices all part of the live mix) adding to a sense of authenticity. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun-Times Musical director Victoria DeIorio delivers a warm sound-text of Baptist hymns and country ballads. -Lawrence Bommer - Chicago Free Press |
| The Misanthrope - greasy joan & co. Sound designer Victoria Delorio combines electro-clash rhythms and Claudine Longet-like murmurings to set up a world of bumbling tensions. -Brian Kirst - Chicago Free Press |
| Dirty Cowboy - Lifeline Theatre Music and lyrics by Victoria DeIorio and Jane Baxter, this musicalization is packed with quirky, participatory songs that keep the little ones totally engaged. -William Scott - New City Chicago But combined with an original, toe-tapping country-flavored score by Victoria DeIorio and Jane Baxter Miller and lots of kiddie friendly audience participation, Lifeline has still come up with a pleasant and delightful afternoon family excursion. -Joe Stead - Steadystyle Chicago |
| Sunday on the Rocks - Second Sex Series @ the Bailiwick Delorio’s cast makes strong enough choices to create real, breathing personalities out of underwritten characters. This is a play that could easily fall apart with actors who opt for the obvious, but all four women here craft nuanced performances. Delorio’s strong direction rescues the play from its indulgent tendencies. -Kris Vire - TimeOut Chicago This charming and thought-provoking play was a pleasant surprise and a strong choice for a season opener displaying talent and thought in a simple, refined artistry. -Meghan Gillogly - SteadyStyle Chicago Director Victoria DeIorio's well-designed production overcomes the script's flaws with complex, compelling, thoroughly credible characterizations. Best known for her excellent sound designs on stages across Chicago, Victoria DeIorio steps up as director here, leading a smart cast to deliver a show that remains enjoyable, even if Rebeck’s ending fails to convince. I fell for it hard, and the Bailiwick production (a slumber party directed with verve by Victoria Delorio) is one of the better shows I’ve seen in the theater’s studio space. |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau - Lifeline Theatre Victoria DeIorio's rousing music richly enhance this harrowing voyage. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun-Times Victoria Delorio's unsettling sound effects and primal music, whose wailing violins and frenzied flutes recall the island's unfortunate inhabitants. -Barbara Vitello - Daily Herald |
| War - Seanachai Theatre Director Karen Kessler isn’t at a loss for ideas, including a stylized sequence that mixes clever, Keystone-Cops-style choreography with Victoria DeIorio’s sound design for a fresh, time-lapsed effect. -Web Behrens - Chicago Free Press Likewise imposing order on the narrative sprawl is Victoria DeIorio’s deftly-selected sound design, encompassing an extended step-dance sequence ( choreographed by Karen Tarjan ) , a snippet of Ennio Morricone for the self-styled cowboy, and several versions of Lydia The Tattooed Lady. -Mary Shen Barnidge - Windy City Times |
| Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue - Stageworks Hudson/Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Victoria DeIorio's haunting sound design weaves the production together beautifully and unobtrusively. -Rebecca Daniels - Woodstock Times |
| 2 by Pearl - Eclipse Theatre The use of multi-dimensional R&B singers such as Bettye LaVette in the pre-show music for Eclipse Theatre Company’s “2 By Pearl” perfectly sets up what’s to follow in this exceptional evening of theater. -Brian Kirst - Chicago Free Press |
| Frozen - The Next Theatre But another refrain echoes through "Frozen," as eerie and impossible to ignore as Victoria Delorio's music. -Barbara Vitello - Daily Herald ...gripping incidental music. -Mary Shen Barnidge - Chicago Reader The dramatic temperature of the physical staging relies on the often intense lighting by Diane D. Fairchild and the sound and music by Victoria DeIorio. -Dan Zeff - Copley News Service |
| Blues for an Alabama Sky - Eclipse Theatre A well-chosen soundtrack by sound designer Victoria DeIorio complements the play's alternately boisterous and melancholy moods. -Albert Williams - Chicago Reader |
| The Real Thing - Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Victoria DeIorio turns us all into mush by mixing romantic ditties from two centuries in Tom Stoppard’s paean to love. -Mary Shen Barnidge - Windy CIty Times Sound design by Victoria DeIorio is delightful as always, either exquisitely executing the specific requirements as laid out by Stoppard, or designing beautifully to augment and illustrate words and action that are tightly intertwined with textual musical allusions. -Martha Wade Steketee - Aisle Say Chicago |
| Velveteen Rabbit - Lifeline Theatre Original music and sound design by the masterful Victoria DeIorio touches at classical phrasing and cinematic transitions in a delightful way. We are in no particular time and in every time in her beautiful soundscape. -Martha Wade Steketee - Aisle Say Chicago |
| The Bluest Eye - Steppenwolf Theatre @ The Duke Theatre NYC The actual rape of Pecola is also narrated rather than shown, which is both tasteful and chilling. Sound designer Victoria DeIorio's menacing underscoring and J.R. Lederle's moody lighting help considerably. -Dan Bacalzo - TheatreMania |
| Ophelia - NYC Fringe Festival - Connely Theatre In Victoria DeIorio’s sound design, the music helpfully comments on the action. -Laura Shea - American Theatre Web |
| God of Hell - The Next Theatre ... and composer Victoria DeIorio's deconstructed cowboy music is brilliant. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago SunTimes Sound designer/composer Victoria DeIorio introduces us to our cast with a twanging, country guitar accompanied by symphonic stringed instruments, a blend of two contrasting sounds that seems coerced. -Brian Murphy - Evanston Round Table The Next production, directed by Karen Kessler, features nicely woozy musical interludes composed by Victoria DeIorio. -Robert Loerzel - Pioneer Press |
| Sweetest Swing in Baseball - Eclipse Theatre Victoria DeIorio’s excellent original piano music ( played by Christopher Walz ) establishes mood and tone via deconstructed variations on Take Me Out to the Ball Game. -Jonathan Abarbanel - Windy City Times |
| Pacific - Steppenwolf Theatre ...will almost make you wish you could take your shoes off and go for a walk along the shore and the sound by Victoria DeIorio and lighting by J.R. Lederle complete that portion of the picture. -Al Bresloff - SalsaChicago.com |
| Stardust - Griffin Theatre Creating the prerequisite fantasyland, with all its magic and fantastical creatures, is always a challenge, especially on a small budget... and sound designer Victoria DeIorio is more than up to the task. -Mary Houlihan - Chicago SunTimes With Victoria DeIorio's sound and Kevin D. Gawley's lights, there's no doubt that, as the theater lights go down, you've entered into an otherworldly dimension where all things are possible. -Betty Mohr - Daily Southtown Theater Critic |
| Sirens of Titan - Lifeline Theatre The big star of the show is behind the scenes: Victoria DeIorio, who adds so much to the mood with her music and, especially, her sound design. -Web Behrens - Chicago Free Press |
| Omnium Gatherum - Next Theatre ...and especially striking sound by Victoria DeIorio. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun-Times And let's not forget the great work of respective set and sound designers Matthew J. York and Victoria DeIorio who both visually and audibly underpin the play's sinister and recriminating aspects. -Scott C. Morgan - Windy City Times |
| Long Way From Chicago - Lifeline Theatre ...Victoria DeIorio's right-on sound design. -Jeff Rossen - Gay Chicago Magazine |
| All's Well that Ends Well - Reverie Theatre Helen enters in the manner of a Gower Champion musical number, complete with a line of chorus boys, incongruously accompanied by Victoria DeIorio's synthesizer-based New Age-elegant incidental music. -Mary Shen Barnidge |
| Blue Orange - Northlight Theatre ...deserves applause; so do Victoria DeIorio's haunting and subtle sound effects. -Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun Times |
| Alarms and Excursions - Cobalt Theatre Ensemble But the real star of the show is Sound Designer Victoria DeIorio's precision-timed collection of electronic chirps, whistles, howls, buzzes and robot-voices that constitute a presence all on their own. -Mary Shen Barnidge |
