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Broad Street Review

Cookie takes the cake. Local chanteuse Cookie Diorio similarly entwines the personal and political. She uses her potent, penetrating voice – ably supported by musical director Amanda Morton on piano – to avow her right to take up space in the world and live as her authentic self.

Philadelphia Magazine

I especially enjoyed diseuse Cookie Diorio, a towering presence with a fabulous voice, who turned Dreamgirls’ over-familiar anthem, “I Am Changing” into something personal and special.

Broad Street Review

But any production of Kinky Boots rises or falls on its Lola, and here, the DTC production hits the bullseye. Stunning in drag and a stunningly good actor, Diorio is simply magnificent. A classically trained vocalist who “mastered the art of walking in stilettos in the nightclubs of Boston,” she commands the stage with charm and charisma.

Philadelphia Inquirer

While drag shows have long embraced the emerald legend, no one has quite done it like Diorio, who has created her own character that raps, sings, and twerks to debauched versions of Christmas carols.