Valerie Adams Rigsbee

Helen Hayes Recommended

"Valerie Adams Rigsbee is versatile and fascinating to watch."
BroadwayWorld

"In a true tour de force, Valerie Adams Rigsbee disappears into three roles."
Theatre In DC

"Rigsbee is spectacular in all three roles."
hotchka

Helen Hayes Recommended

"Rigsbee's dutiful clerk emphasizes the stakes... [with lines that] sting with uneasy recognition. ... A top-notch cast."
The Washinton Post

"Featuring an ensemble cast that plays off of one another with near perfection ... Rigsbee perfectly channels the 'good soldier' vibe."
MD Theatre Guide

Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding Musical Direction

"Toby’s Elf the Musical is a tremendously tasty treat for the holidays, sweet and tart and delightful."
DC Theatre Arts

"With bright lights, bouncy tunes and an abundance of Yuletide cheer, “Elf The Musical” will get you into the holiday spirit!"
MD Theatre Guide

Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble (3 Total Nominations)

"A show that is more energetic, better sung, better danced, and simply shinier than any in recent memory."
DC Theatre Arts

"In this large, excellent cast, it's difficult to single out performers to praise...everyone on the stage is praisworthy."
Broadway World

Helen Hayes Recommended

"The voices and acting are terrific in this thoroughly entertaining workplace satire."
DC Theatre Arts

"The 9 to 5 cast is outstanding...The whole production transports you back to the era."
Hotchka

Helen Hayes Recommended

"ExPat’s Marlene is an example of the extraordinary talent tucked away in small spaces. It’s worth the trip to catch."
DC Theatre Arts

"[T]his such an engaging play...including a heated, bristling flirtation with her assistant Vivian (a delightfully vivacious Valerie Adams Rigsbee)."
BroadwayWorld

Helen Hayes Award Winner for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play (8 Total Nominations)

"Valerie Adams Rigbee [performs] with such expressive verve that she elicits chuckles with nearly every line."
Metro Weekly

"A masterclass in strong, ensemble-based comedy!"
MD Theatre Guide

Helen Hayes Recommended

"This intimate play about connection where it’s least expected is well worth seeing."
MD Theatre Guide

"A happy ending and a cozy, warm play for a cold winter night."
DC Theater Arts

"Miracle on 34th Street will put you in a mood for Christmas and put a smile in your heart — the Grinch would fall in love with this show."
DC Theater Arts

"Thanks to...wonderful music and singing, it was 'beginning to look like Christmas' in this wonderful performance-a perfect start to the season."
MD Theatre Guide

Helen Hayes Recommended

"Director and Choreographer Mark Minnick has directed a heartwarming show that audiences will adore. "
DC Theater Arts

"Sister Act is the most joyous show of the season, and that’s the God’s honest truth."
Hotchka

Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding Director of a Musical (5 Total Nominations)

"Great harmony, wonderful dancing...The ensemble is comprised of very talented singers and dancers."
MD Theatre Guide

"It’ll sweep you away awhile and return you with a hankering for a...little more Buffett."
BroadwayWorld

7 Total Helen Hayes Nominations

"[I]t’s hard to imagine a better play, and cast...This choice is funny, loving, an overt ode to live theater."
Washington City Paper

"Don’t go to Shakespeare in Love for facts or history. Go to Shakespeare in Love for good, trashy fun."
DC Theater Arts

"Rounding out the cast are Valerie Adams Rigsbee, whose sweet, emotional performance is underlined with a steely spine." BroadwayWorld

"[They] have achieved something remarkable. They have created a new art form that is complex, fully realized, and utterly compelling." DC Metro Theatre Arts

Helen Hayes Recommended

"[Valerie Adams Rigsbee] brings comedic charm to the fiery 'It’s A Fix.'"
Washington City Paper

"“If I Don’t Sleep” (beautifully sung by Valerie Adams Rigsbee and Gary DuBreuil), is a tenderly moving evocation of empathy, mutuality, and reciprocity in a marriage."
DC Metro Theater Arts

Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play, Hayes and New Play, Hayes (5 Total Nominations)

"Absorbing and meticulously crafted."
Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks." The Washington Post

1 Helen Hayes Nomination

"All praise to Constellation for bringing off a seemingly impossible task with supreme aplomb. You’ll be dazzled and delighted."
‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: Tending the Fire of Civilization, The Wall Street Journal

"A stellar ensemble cast of seven play all the remaining multiple tracks to great effect. There are standout moments...from Valerie Adams Rigsbee. Overall, it’s a striking story, presented beautifully."
Review: ‘Doctor Faustus’ at Brave Spirits Theatre, DC Metro Theatre Arts

"Many of the actors played numerous parts and their range was beyond remarkable.... Valerie Adams Rigsbee['s] attention to physicality and vocal patterns make[s] the multiple roles believable."
'Review: ‘Bonnie & Clyde The Musical’ at Monumental Theatre Company' by Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theatre Arts

"The acting in this show is superb. Each actor shows so much attention to emotional nuance...Even the smaller parts were expertly played, such as...Valerie Adams Rigsbee's Margaret."
'Much Ado About Nothing at NextStop (review)' by RK Pendergrass, DC Theatre Scene

Helen Hayes Award Nominee for Outstanding Musical (4 Total Nominations)

"The big cast snaps smartly across the small stage in number after number."
''Tis the (campaign) season for 'Urinetown'' by Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

Sue's Sorry

A blog from the not-so-reasonable mind of Soupy Sue, as played by Valerie Adams Rigsbee.

Helen Hayes Award Winner for Outstanding Musical and Direction of a Musical (8 Total Nominations)

"Directors [and] cast have honored Kitt and Yorkey's revelatory work with an unforgettable production."
'Next to Normal at Keegan Theatre (review)' by Ben Demers, DC Theatre Scene

Helen Hayes Winner for Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical (6 Total Nominations)

"Karen Vincent and Valerie Adams Rigsbee (in for Awa Sal Secka) immediately endear themselves as the amusingly despicable villains."
'Review: James and the Giant Peach at Adventure Theatre MTC' by Kendall Mostafavi, DC Metro Theatre Arts

National tour venues included:

Ferguson Center for the Arts (VA), The Grand Theatre (KY), Tilson Auditorium (IN), The Grand 1894 Opera House (TX), Strand Theatre of Shreveport (LA), Reynolds Performance Hall (AR), Leach Theatre (MO), Arkansas State University (AR), The Villages (FL), Flagler Auditorium (FL), Largo Cultural Center (FL), Delray Beach Center for the Arts (FL), The Palace Theatre (PA)

NH Theatre Awards Top 3 Finalist for Valerie for Best Supporting Actress and Finalist for Best Comedy/Drama (6 Total Nominations)

"The talented cast makes music with his poetic language, while the designers deliver one interesting idea after another."
'Theater review: 'The Winter’s Tale'' by Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press:

"Neu and Freeh manage to dress a small stage with lots of performers who move about with admirable precision. The overall result is homage to traditional operetta as well as to the winking broadness of old-style musical theater."
'Skylark Opera's 'Merry Widow' charms, produces chuckles' by David Hawley, Pioneer Press

"Valerie Rigsbee gives a touching performance as Galileo's daughter, demonstrating the human cost of this clash between science and politics when she is jilted by her fiancé."
'Galileo vs. the Church' by Lisa Brock, Star Tribune

New Hampshire Theatre Award Finalist for Best Actor

"Much of the cast is very strong...Valerie Rigsbee gives a suitably crazed and over-the-top performance as Queen Margaret."
Advice to the Players offers compelling take on 'Richard III' by Alec Kerr, The Conway Daily Sun

"Valerie Rigsbee positively sparkles on stage, imbuing the long-suffering Christina Grant an inner strength and self-possession that makes the character's development completely believable, something that is often missed by actors in this role."
'Murder Most "Nile"' by Melinda Rice, Mount Desert Islander