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The Exorcist
iHorror Award Nomination - Best Lead Actor, 2017
"...it grows more and more disturbing as the series goes on, thanks to Robert Emmet Lunney's work as the demon. The series even gets at the almost sensuous feeling that would result from having your mind invaded so intimately. You might never want to give it up."
- Vox.com
"Demons unsettle me tremendously, and Captain Howdy from The Exorcist felt like a nightmare. Robert Emmet Lunney did a spectacular job at portraying the physical version of Pazuzu, and the series really managed to craft a great villain from the franchise’s history. It’s going to be hard for the show to top this one in Season 2."
- This Year’s Best TV Villains, tvovermind.com
"The Devil is an Old White Man ...Robert Emmet Lunney ’s stellar portrayal of a personified demon..."
- Paste Magazine.com
"...it grows more and more disturbing as the series goes on, thanks to Robert Emmet Lunney's work as the demon. The series even gets at the almost sensuous feeling that would result from having your mind invaded so intimately. You might never want to give it up."
- Vox.com
"Demons unsettle me tremendously, and Captain Howdy from The Exorcist felt like a nightmare. Robert Emmet Lunney did a spectacular job at portraying the physical version of Pazuzu, and the series really managed to craft a great villain from the franchise’s history. It’s going to be hard for the show to top this one in Season 2."
- This Year’s Best TV Villains, tvovermind.com
"The Devil is an Old White Man ...Robert Emmet Lunney ’s stellar portrayal of a personified demon..."
- Paste Magazine.com
Gertrude, The Cry
"Lunney's brilliant Claudius gradually withers as his longing to hear Gertrude's cry again transforms him into a puling whelp."
- TheaterMania
- TheaterMania
Victory: Choices in Reaction
"...Robert Emmet Lunney achieves something of an apotheosis in Victory."
- George Hunka, Superfluities Redux
"Robert Emmet Lunney makes his cavalier equal parts lost soul and monster."
- Backstage.com
"As Ball, Robert Emmet Lunney gives a complex, subtle performance."
- Joseph Samuel Wright
- George Hunka, Superfluities Redux
"Robert Emmet Lunney makes his cavalier equal parts lost soul and monster."
- Backstage.com
"As Ball, Robert Emmet Lunney gives a complex, subtle performance."
- Joseph Samuel Wright
Gary, The Thief
"...and the play, receiving its world premiere in this production, directed by Richard Romagnoli, is lucky to have the actor Robert Emmet Lunney to deliver it. Mr. Lunney makes visceral what might have been abstract. He varies the colors of his voice and his accent: he can be prim, even schoolmarmish when he narrates, but as Gary the Thief he has a Cockney swagger and impacted rage. Gary’s stare is ferocious. (Reader, he scared me). Mr. Lunney, in a dark suit, performs on a bare black set with only a hint of theatrical artifice: a wry proscenium arch near the back of the stage. It’s all very spare and tasteful — he seems like a pearl nestled in a velvet jewel case... Mr. Lunney carries the day."
- The New York Times
- The New York Times
Angels in America
"...in the role of Roy Cohn, Lunney is seductive, frightening, hilarious, slimy and ultimately, even sympathetic; such is the wonder of this full, rich portrayal."
- The Tuscaloosa News
- The Tuscaloosa News
No End of Blame
"The production is driven by the magnetic performance of Robert Emmet Lunney as Bela. Simultaneously attractive and repulsive, arrogant and humble, Lunney refuses to canonize the character..."
- The Washington Post
“Robert Emmet Lunney is a revelation as Bela – alternatively endearing and repulsive, as he heads down a road that will leave him insane and suicidal…”
- Bob Mondello, City Paper
"...his performance, by any account, is riveting, richly conceived and executed."
- Roger Meersman, City Stage
- The Washington Post
“Robert Emmet Lunney is a revelation as Bela – alternatively endearing and repulsive, as he heads down a road that will leave him insane and suicidal…”
- Bob Mondello, City Paper
"...his performance, by any account, is riveting, richly conceived and executed."
- Roger Meersman, City Stage
