Her candor, creativity and high energy are evident in her provocative yet tender presentations and her message is constant: "Accept yourself, whoever you are today."
Sheryl Kay - Curve Magazine (Jun, 2008)
Pandora Scooter: Press
REVIEWS
Pandora is a force of nature.
Tommie Jay - Out in Jersey (Apr, 2007)
"Pandora is as pumped up as she pumps up the audience."
Bonnie Figurello - News 8, Austin, TX
(May 30, 2009)
Pandora Scooter’s Samuraization is a one-woman exploration of death. Scooter involved the audience directly through question and answer (“When did you first become aware of death?”), while rapping about her principal subject as it relates to her.
She tells a revealing anecdote. In the seventh grade, her class was assigned the task of performing a pantomime. While other students pantomimed sports or the application of makeup, she performed the suicide, according to the ritual of seppuku, of Yukio Mishima. (Mishima was a famous Japanese novelist who after World War II agitated for a return to traditional samurai values. To demonstrate their point, a small band of like-minded men occupied a military office. Mishima and his male lover disemboweled themselves. Each was finished off by beheading them, leaving their heads sitting between their legs.) No doubt her teacher had one of those Frankenstein experiences, when a pupil appears to have mutated into an unexpected life form...
Scooter showed herself to be an engaging hostess and facilitator of group interaction.
John Chatterton - Off Off Broadway Review (Mar, 2006)
Pandora Scooter...masterfully entertains.
NYTHEATRE.COM (Jul, 2003)
RAVES
Pandora Scooter's voice is an intrepid, line-drive, take-charge, and charming advocate for all of us underdogs.
Alix Olson (Sep, 2008)
A spoken word ROCK STAR!
Fan, San Francisco Gender Bender Ball (Aug, 2005)
"We've never seen anything like Pandora Scooter at the Dirty Dog before! She's amazing."
- Manager/Booker, Dirty Dog
Austin, TX
Mark Daly (May 27, 2009)
My students are still talking about her! Pandora made a huge impact on them!
Professor, Criminal Justice Class, Rutgers (Apr, 2005)
She brings a huge amount of positivity and love to every performance and fills the space with her warm energy of power and peace.
Mahina Movement (Aug, 2004)
Pandora is witty, hot, and inspirational! I can't thank her enough for not only performing, but being!
Fan, Doylestown, PA (Apr, 2005)
PRODUCERS
Our audience was blessed by Pandora's performance here at NJPAC. She is absolutely awesome!
Baraka Sele, Asst. VP of Programming at NJPAC (Nov, 2005)
Pandora is wonderful. To have a talent like hers on the stage is a coup for me as a producer and a great gift to the crowd!
Cheryl King, Producer, NY Solo Play Lab (Feb, 2005)
Pandora is soooo awesome! She is truly the best!
Tiye Lasley, Co-Founder/Exec Dir of AALLU (Mar, 2005)
Pandora Scooter presented "Samuraization" in my theater in January of 2006, in a six-week run that grew to 8 weeks, due to popular demand. Pandora is an incisive thinker, a philosopher, and a humorist. She presents deep insights with a wink, and provocative questions with gentleness. Her tongue-in-cheek imitation of Yukio Mishima is hilarious, and yet her respect for this towering figure is palpable. It is delightful to see our American shyness regarding death confronted, and Pandora does it with style. Pandora is a consummate professional, always prepared, and always adaptable to whatever circumstances surround her performance. Additionally, and importantly, she always filled up the theater with happy audience members. I could not ask for a more satisfying relationship than the one I have with Pandora Scooter.