Selected Press Clips


Writer-Composer

"Seton is to the writing of songs what Martha Clarke is to dance. When she's in the mood to be accessible, her work is sparklingly fresh and inventive. When she gives her surreal imagination free reign, dispensing with words, she creates an individual world of sound that makes its own statements through sonic form."
LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Just when we thought we had seen everything, we discover (in Mimi Seton's
Blue Corridor) that there is still a great deal of originality possible in musical theatre."
DRAMA-LOGUE

"Mimi Seton is a composer of prodigious, melancholy talents. Her new work defies easy classification. Imagine Meredith Monk and Leonard Bernstein collaborating on a project. Get the picture?"
LA WEEKLY

"Mimi Seton’s brilliantly conceived and exquisitely realized theatre piece,
Wazo Wazo, simply can’t be described adequately in words. It is a metaphysical experience, beyond form, on the edges of the imagination, most accessible to those willing and able to let go and take the trip."
DRAMA-LOGUE

"With Blue Corridor, Seton has created an avant-garde masterpiece, using elements from the whole tone scale, Gregorian chant and traditional jazz that will have you dancing in your seat."
KLON Radio

"Seton is a new music-theatre visionary."
LA WEEKLY

"Mimi Seton’s sounds are eclectic ~ some pulse music here, something reminiscent of Aaron Copeland’s choral works there, one number with a jazzy scat sound, another with a Latin beat. Wazo Wazo is an enchanting experience whose language is genuinely universal."
LOS ANGELES TIMES

"In the style of the recent Sondheim, this music… is as glorious as any songs ever written. . . If the Gershwins represent the best of the Broadway musical tradition, Ms. Seton prepares us for the future."
DRAMA-LOGUE

"Wazo Wazo swings through the center of the human soul with the eerie grace of a spider spinning…(it is) extraordinarily focused and compelling, with careful attention to detail."
LA WEEKLY, Pick of the Week

"Brain Hotel is a unique event in modern theatre…"
EASY READER, LA

"Once in a bright blue moon a theatre piece surfaces which is unusual, daring, and very, very special. Just such an evening is Brain Hotel."
DRAMA-LOGUE

"Nothing in this year’s Taper Too offerings exceeds in inventiveness last year’s See Below Middle Sea by Mimi Seton."
LA TIMES

"I had a good time at Mimi Seton’s See Below Middle Sea at Taper, Too. We are visiting the ocean’s floor in imagination; much as we visited the underworld of Hieronymous Bosch in Martha Clarke’s The Garden of Earthly Delights . . .It is a charming conceit."
LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Seton’s music is reminiscent of that of Philip Glass in that it uses the human voice as an instrument. See Below Middle Sea is sensory theatre at its strange best."
STAR-NEWS

"What a wonderful original piece! Brain Hotel is a cascade of words and rhythms."
LA WEEKLY Pick of the Week

"Brain Hotel is a dazzling demonstration of ensemble technique, an existential jam session that succeeds with the ease of a Nijinski leap."
LA TIMES

"What the Taper’s School Talk does, in the style of Fame, is entertain ~ especially in the musical segments created by Jeff Hull, with the addition of a very powerful song, “My Own Way”, composed and sung by cast-member, Mimi Seton."
DRAMA-LOGUE

"Wazo Wazo thankfully succeeds at being both experimental and truly entertaining."
VARIETY

"Mimi Seton may be the musical woman of my dreams!"
Cleve Herman, veteran Los Angeles radio host

"Watching Mimi Seton direct Body Without Bones was like watching a female Samuel Beckett at work. Black humor seems never to stop flowing out of her. Added to which, she can sing with ease every line she is teaching her cast~ from the soprano to the baritone roles!"
Nollaig Coghlan, Dublin Theatre Producer

Actress-Singer
"Among their various voices in John O’Keefe’s Ghosts, the most unforgettable is that of Mimi Seton, better known as the composer of last year’s Wazo Wazo, and here indescribably chilling. Hers is a truly other-worldly presence and the story she tells keeps you up nights…thinking."
LOS ANGELES TIMES

"The remarkable Ms. Seton plays the emcee of this apocalyptic nightclub with fantastic animal grace and skill, speaking English, French and German with apparent ease."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

" Nancy Lenehan and Mimi Seton are simply splendid as the Pigeon sisters in The Odd Couple. Thoroughly adorable in movement and manner, they play off one another perfectly, stealing the show from Sherman Hemsley."
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

" Mimi Seton’s Yvette from Mother Courage is simply stunning."
DAILY CALIFORNIAN

"The highlight of Epic West’s Messingkauf Dialogues is in Act II, the “Galileo Ballad “, beautifully belted by Mimi Seton."
DAILY CALIFORNIAN

"Mimi Seton as the suicidal Erin in Susan Griffin’s Voices performed the impossible. Her humor was ironic rather than glib and her character’s pain was felt rather than considered."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"AD HOC ROC is one of the most original bands I’ve heard, boasting exciting tandem singing by Shelley Hirsch and Mimi Seton."
SO HO WEEKLY, New York

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