The Misanthrope
greasy joan & co., 2008
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
Island of Dr. Moreau
Lifeline Theatre, 2007
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 Company, 2007
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
2 by Pearl
eclipse theatre co., 2007
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’s perfectly sets up what’s to follow in this exceptional evening of theater.
Brian Kirst - Chicago Free Press
Elliott, A Soldier's Fugue
StageWorks Hudson & RTE, 2007
Victoria DeIorio's haunting sound design weaves the production together beautifully and unobtrusively.
Rebecca Daniels - Woodstock Times
Frozen
The Next Theatre, 2007
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 co., 2007
A well-chosen soundtrack by sound designer Victoria DeIorio complements the play's alternately boisterous and melancholy moods.
Albert Williams - Chicago Reader
Velveteen Rabbit
Lifeline Theatre, 2006
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 Real Thing
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, 2006
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
The Bluest Eye
Steppenwolf Theatre @ The Duke, 2006
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 @ The Connelly, 2006
In Victoria DeIorio’s sound design, the music helpfully comments on the action.
Laura Shea - American Theatre Web
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
Eclipse Theatre co., 2006
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
God of Hell
The Next Theatre, 2005
... 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
Pacific
Steppenwolf Theatre, 2005
…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, 2005
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, 2005
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
The Next Theatre, 2004
...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
A Long Way From Chicago
Lifeline Theatre, 2004
...Victoria DeIorio's right-on sound design.
Jeff Rossen - Gay Chicago Magazine
Blue Orange
Northlight Theatre, 2004
...deserves applause; so do Victoria DeIorio's haunting and subtle sound effects.
Hedy Weiss - Chicago Sun Times
All's Well That Ends Well
Reverie Theatre, 2004
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