_Acting Reviews

The San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Indulgences in the Louisville Harem
Kim Saunders is stunning as Viola Becker; Kim is able to exude a brand of fragile vulnerability and desperation akin to Tennessee Williams’ Laura in the Glass Menagerie.
by Jeffrey R Smith

Wordpress
Sister Cities
Saunders’ Carolina has to negotiate the challenge of having to be both unlikable and growing into a sympathetic character as the play progresses.  She has to retain an edge, and handles that transition with grace and verve.  Her primary interactions are with Grover’s Austin, and the two are very believable in their “courtroom-like” drama.
Ande Jacobson

Metroactive
Sabrina Fair
"Good chemistry enlivens the relationship between Reynolds and Kim Saunders as Sabrina. Sabrina is intense (hold the ingenue), smoothing out the textual shortcomings that make Sabrina's defining characteristic, her "love of life," almost unrecognizable to modern audiences--is that life as in "romance" or life as in the "high life"? It's hard to tell."
By Marianne Messina

Talkinbroadway
Little Mary Sunshine
"Kim Saunders as Nancy does a good comic turn, reminding me of Joan Davis, who I worked with at  Republic. There were many comedians of her type during those B film days, and Saunders does them justice with her comedy moves and patter."
By Richard Connema

Monterey County Weekly
The Crucible
"the play focuses on a love triangle between John (Jeff McGrath) and Elizabeth Proctor (Kim Saunders).In this production, only Saunders'' Elizabeth comes close to showing us the vulnerability that''s so necessary to make us care about the characters"
By Chuck Thurman

Artsopolis
A Girls Guide to Chaos
“The brassy Saunders has some scene stealing moments, such as when she personifies a certain member of the male anatomy.”
Carl from Palo Alto

_Directing/Choreography
Mercury News
Mousetrap at Altarena Playhouse
Director Kim Saunders has differentiated her eight characters well. All are believable.
By Alice B Chalip

Metroactive
The Taffetas

"Tabard does a remarkable job with this potentially soporific material.
It's because this production is relentless in maintaining the original flavor and avoiding cynicism that we don't see these girls as a bunch of bimbos being kept down on the farm but as natural nurturers answering a particular call of the times: be beautiful, be gentle, it's a harsh world out there, I'm fragile."
By Marianne Messina

 "The Taffetas"

I feel like I have a personal connection to "The Taffetas", as I'm one of the few people you'll ever meet who saw its original Off-Broadway production. Not only that, but I knew well the creator and the cast members. This production certainly does Rick and his creation proud.  The real key to "The Taffetas" is that it can't be played as camp or cheese. It's sweet and nice, but must be played most sincerely so. And this talented quartet really hit the right notes
By Elisa Camahort

The Santa Clara Weekly
“You Leave the Sardines”
Noises Off 
directed by Kim Saunders.
This production of Noises Off is, simply stated, great: a must-see production.  Italicized and bolded doesn’t really express the conviction of those words, as it was at all possible to reach out from this article, grab you by the lapels and scream, “You have to see this show, and Friday is your last chance;” perhaps that would do a much better job of conveying the opportunity at hand.  What? The new Bond film is opening that night.  It’ll be in theaters for weeks, so go the next night.  Friday will be your last chance to see Noises Off and as long as you know how to laugh, you’re guaranteed to have a great time.  What’s so overwhelming?  It’s the final showing – extended no less – of Michael Frayn’s play, Noises Off. 
By Larry Sacks

The Santa Clara Weekly
Almost Maine
what makes Almost, Maine stand out from the crowd is the feel Director Kim Saunders has managed to bring to it. In Almost, Maine the talents of the actors and the crew behind the scenes, allows Saunders to transform the Mission City Center into a venue closer resembling Off-Broadway than Wilcox High School.
By Larry Sacks