“Nancy Bannon excels at understanding the awkwardness and despair that plague human relationships.” The New Yorker

“Ms. Bannon’s Drinking Ink, a Portrait in 10 Parts is a short play: a grim but funny portrait of a middle-aged Appalachian couple (Robyn Hunt and Steven Pearson) who have lost their son in a car accident. A third man (Chad Hoeppner) keeps turning up in various guises, and Ms. Bannon’s text, finely acted, gradually makes clear the characters’ inarticulate pain and unspoken tendernesses.” New York Times

“Nancy Bannon’s A Man of Wealth and Taste was a theatrical snapshot of three friends (Chad Hoeppner, Robert Eli Thompson, Joe Varca, all brilliant) at a hockey game: men behaving badly, drinking too much and letting tiny moments of hurt, pain and shame leak through the cracks. Tell us more, Ms. Bannon, tell us more.” NY Times

“The show features inventive staging, riveting dialogue, and an outstanding cast. This stunning production about the lasting effect that combat has on soldiers and their families should be seen. It is timely and important. Occupied Territories is a production that deserves all the praise we can give it. Take the emotional journey. It not only is an insightful view of the ravages of war and the difficulties that veterans and their families can encounter, but it is an extraordinary production. It is a show that will go far.” Broadway World

“But the pièce de résistance in The Approach is the performances: Tessa Klein as Cora, Nancy Bannon as Anna, Madeleine Burke Pitt as Denise. They each seem to have an uncanny inner knowledge of backstories and unseen people that inform every scintilla of their speech, every flicker in their face, every gesture, every breath. The text they are working with may seem cryptic on the page, but these three profoundly gifted actors have found every nuance.” DC Theater Arts

“The acting is so mesmerizing that it draws you in and refuses to lose your attention for the entirety of the play’s 60 minutes.” MD Theater Scene

“Either way, we get three powerful performances from Bannon, Klein, and Pitt.” Washington City Paper

“Beautifully written, beautifully performed.” MoMA's New Directors/New Films (Lulu and Josie)

“… funny and affecting.” NY Times

“Ms. Bannon… builds her performance slowly and subtly moving from initial bafflement to striking emotional intensity as she sorts out the truth from the lies which are all about her.” DC Theatre Scene

“But the show’s most fully realized work was Nancy Bannon’s short play, A Man of Wealth and Taste. Actors Chad Hoeppner, Robert Eli Thompson, and Joe Varca portrayed three buttoned-up junior execs, letting off steam at a hockey game. They vociferously and profanely professed that this was ‘the MOST FUN EVER' but we slowly learned that their bravado concealed personal misfortunes.” Dance Magazine

“Your reaction to the cornfield may depend on where you’re from. Culturally, the field and the characters that inhabit it are a world away from cosmopolitan D.C., but not so distant geographically. Cornfield also plays up our associations with these sometimes-eerie locations. To some people, they’re peaceful places where food is grown, and to others, they’re the site of crop circles, or the last thing the pretty blonde girl in a slasher movie will ever see. Bannon walks this line with the three actors who inhabited the space, and whom the audience voyeuristically peers through stalks and husks to watch two young men struggle with their listlessness and misdirected anger, while their female friend tries to fend for herself through their come-ons and taunts.” Maura Judkis, Washington City Paper

“Bannon has scripted and directed these scenes brilliantly.”  Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

“… a mesmerizing exercise in interactive theater.”   Time Out New York

“… like stepping into an avant-garde funhouse.”   Backstage

“… exceedingly cool. An adventure in theatre-making/theatre-going quite unlike anything I’ve ever encountered. The performances are diverse, entertaining, and often astonishing. There’s something new and unexpected and possibly just outside the comfort zone, at every turn- that’s the stuff that matters, that makes an experience.”   nytheatre.com

“Her art speaks volumes about the world around us, tackling major societal issues. Bannon demonstrates an invaluable aesthetic that stands equally strong in the world of art and the world of social instigation.”   OffOffOff.com