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"Bold...hilariously ribald.
Told with considerable wit."
LA Times
"A poignant celebration of love and life...
expertly directed"
Hollywood Revealed
"Directed with great insight into personal acceptance and growth by Edward Edwards."
Broadway World
It's Time

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Tender Napalm

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The Dream of the Burning Boy

STAGE SCENE LA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION OF A DRAMA

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ALL MY SONS
Arthur Miller

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THE COLLECTOR
John Fowles adapted by Mark Healy
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Dancing at Lughnasa

Rumors

THE IDYLLIC WORLD OF LILLIAN CORTESSI
Tony Pasqualini

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THE ROOMING HOUSE
Conrad Bromberg
Director Edward Edwards’ choice of venues — a converted studio in a deserted warehouse district on the wrong side of the Downtown Arts District — both sets the scene and lends the evening the shady decorum of an outlaw cockfight. Inside, Graham Hamilton and Jaimi Paige face off on a boxing ring stage for a non-stop, 90-minute, violently erotic bout of incendiary fabulation.
Bill Raden
LA Weekly

with direction as thoroughly inspired as Edwards’, I dare anyone’s interest to wane. Edwards’ directorial contributions cannot be underestimated. To begin with, playwright Ripley provides him with little or no stage directions.

Take for example the play’s opening scene.

The New York production of Tender Napalm started off with Man and Woman warming up for a fight, like boxers preparing for a match or Olympic athletes getting ready to compete. Not so in L.A., where Hamilton simply enters, pulls off the bed sheet which has been covering a prone Paige, and launches into Man’s “bullet” monolog. Edwards’ very own opening salvo, and an effective one at that.
Steven Stanley
StageSceneLA.com

Edward Edwards shows off his talents in this marvel of a production
Alyssa Marcy
Life in LA

TENDER NAPALM is charged with so much raw sexual energy and crazed emotions that it will be stuck in your head for days !

It is WORLD WAR 3 IN A BEDROOM !
Native Wayne Jobson
Indie 103.1 Radio




The Dream of the Burning Boy is brilliantly directed by Edward Edwards. This production is so far and above anything I’ve seen in recent years, that I can only express how thoroughly perfect it was right from the start. The Dream of the Burning Boy is suffused in hard, beautiful, angry, hopeful sorrow. And it is gorgeous.
Gia Reviews

The Dream Of The Burning Boy, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Malibu Playhouse in a production that easily rivals the best of L.A.’s higher-profile 99-seat houses.Edward Edwards’s nuanced direction equals his Scenie-winning work in All My Sons and this past year’s Tender Napalm.
Steven Stanley
StageSceneLA

Initially muted, director Edward Edwards' staging mounts to the emotionally fraught.
F. Kathleen Foley
LA Times

The play is helmed by veteran director, producer and actor Edward Edwards. The rapid-fire overlapping dialog by the seven actors is executed flawlessly, reflecting Edwards’ directorial patience and skill.
Hank Pollard
The Malibu Times



WOW! ALL MY SONS has made a welcome return in a production at Santa Monica's Ruskin Group Theatre that is about as fine as they come, blessed by the inspired direction of Edward Edwards
Steven Stanley
StageSceneLA.com

Edward Edwards directs this stellar ensemble in an evening of compelling theatre that is heart stopping. An engrossing production that is a must see. It is our critic's pick of the week.
Gerri Garner Entertainment File—American Radio

Director Edward Edwards stages his intimate and psychologically nuanced production almost like a mystery ;the puzzle is spotting all the clues and then piecing them together to understand what is really going on. Edwards' production is anchored by crackling acting work.
LA WEEKLY
Paul Birchall

The aftershocks are keenly felt in Edward Edwards' direction with a cast that resonates as it conveys the crushing weight of each carefully discovered revelation. There are not any licenses taken in this straightforward, if not determinedly exacting production. It runs as smoothly as a well-oiled machine. The pace strikes a perfect balance between measured and frenzied without losing control of either. Stripped down to its raw essentials, this cast delivers with finely felt nuanced feeling kept just under the surface until the final, hair-triggering denouement.
M.R. Hunter
eyespyLA
Miller's skills as a playwright shine through under Edward Edwards' skillful direction.
Tony Frankel
LOS ANGELES THEATER

Director Edward Edwards does not attempt any revisionist flourishes in the current production of "Sons" at the Ruskin Group, but although his simple staging may seem somewhat tame at intervals, it has, on the whole, an emotional authenticity that honors the play's timeless themes.
F. Kathleen Foley
L.A. Times

Director Edwards and his cast create an unbelievably real experience where the audience is left haunted as what seems to be real life unfolds right in front of them.
Jewel Delegall
Campus Circle

All My Sons was directed by Edward Edwards with a sure hand. He shepherds his actors into the time and the place and guides and allows them to become what they must be to fully tell this moving story.
Geoff Hoff




The Collector directed by Edward Edwards is currently at the Ruskin Group Theatre and packs the kind of wallop that keeps your heart pounding until the end.  Director Edwards skillfully keeps the action moving, making each moment almost spellbinding.
Santa Monica Mirror
 Beverly Cohn

The Collector" will pin you to your seat.
LA Theatre Examiner

Outstanding…gripping the audience with its ever-mounting aura of quiet danger. It should not be missed.
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