Stage Reviews

A Delicate Balance (2006)

"...this is a vivid company of actors...Kristian Truelsen makes a remarkable Tobias, at first quietly lost in a sea of confusion, then blundering to the forefront to try to do what he sees as right...Truelsen finds in Tobias something good amid the helplessness. It's his ham-fisted stab at change that is the play's shard of hope."
-Orlando Sentinel

Arms and the Man (2005)

"Ouellette has a savvy cast on his hands, and he has used them beautifully, from the head of the household, Maj. Petkoff (Kristian Truelsen), an imposing man who leads with his impressive mustache...Truelsen is a stitch as the genial Petkoff, who is happiest when he can sit in a corner and be left alone."
-Orlando Sentinel

"...Paul Petkoff, played by a most delightful Kristian Truelsen..."
-Florida Today

"[Kristian Truelsen] brings his considerable skills of timing and double entendre to the role."
-Ink19

"Kristian Truelsen is also quite funny as the dense Major Petkoff."
-The Ledger/The Reporter

A Couple of Blaguards (2006, 2002)

"an ebullient restaging...stars the fraternal team of Kristian and Doug Truelsen, two of [Orlando's] most accomplished thespians. The years have only increased the proficiency of the Truelsens' performances. Both turn in masterful portrayals...with protean expertise and practiced style..."
-Orlando Weekly

"Kristian and Doug Truelsen are wickedly funny..."
-Southwest Orlando Bulletin

"Kristian and Doug Truelsen make sweet music of the McCourts' artful yarns in Orlando Theatre Project's blissful new production of the show...the seasoned Truelsen brothers make sport of the way they devise each new character..."
-Orlando Sentinel

"Changing their voices and demeanors with practiced flexibility and style, the Truelsens need only small costume accoutrements...to re-create lovingly a childhood world that couldn't have been quite as humorous and enjoyable to have lived through as it is to report upon... The Truelsen brothers are evidently enjoying the entire affair, and their ebullient attitudes are infectious... With a couple of blaguards like the Truelsens impersonating a couple of blaguards like the McCourts, all that is needed is to turn up the lights, fill the glasses and get out of the way."
-Orlando Weekly

Trapezium (2005)

"So there's hearty King Mark (Kristian Truelsen), a little less than astute but benefiting always from Truelsen's mellifluous voice, which turns the foolish king into a fool with warmth and weight... Those five [members of the cast] make splendiferous work of Rathvon's language..."
-Orlando Sentinel

"Truelsen is sympathetic and lighthearted..."
-Orlando CityBeat

"...ferociously funny... Kristian Truelsen reigns once more as King Mark..."
-Orlando Weekly

Underneath the Lintel (2004)

"Very funny, with Truelsen getting excited, and berating the audience, and making connections to coincidences that were never meant to connect...With his balding pate and flyaway hair, which sticks up in all directions as his story progresses, Truelsen recalls Back to the Future's Doc Brown, and the Librarian and the crazy inventor certainly have the same wild-eyed zeal. But in Truelsen's hands, this is a more refined soul...It's a lovely, inventive performance, and it's one that grows more poignant as the play goes on."
-Orlando Sentinel

The Real Thing (2001)

"[Truelsen is] adept at channeling Stoppard's finely crafted dialogue."
-Orlando Weekly