Excepts from critical response to The Atheist:

"Hugely entertaining. An old-style revue/vaudeville that was actually about something with regular laughs and a hungry cast intent on burning down the house. [The] audience ate it up."

-- John Clancy, founder, New York
International Fringe Festival

"Don't let the flimflam, vaudeville, exaggeration, or absurd plot shifts of The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist fool you. Dan Trujillo's an incredibly sharp playwright, conflating the cures of the Church with those of a Viagra huckster ("It'll put the stone/in your bone) in an opening so grossly comic that it makes the underlying conceit all the more subtle. Everyone--even the most ardent Atheist--believes in something, it's just a question of what, and by playing up the nature of plays (i.e., nothing is real and yet belief sustains the illusion), Trujillo succeeds in making an entertaining narrative about the desecration of a baby Jesus statue not into a question of faith, but of what faith is.

The play is well-served by director Isaac Butler's familiarity with both the playwright and actors, for the writing requires flawless shifts between the presentational and the intimate. Not only do all three actors (Daryl Lathon, Abe Goldfarb, and Jennifer Gordon Thomas) have the range necessary to switch from mock-selves ("slapstick realism," if you will, concerning a pissed off Jen and her arsenal of gag weapons) to colorful characters (watch Abe's head explode as he yells "stupid fools"), but they look as if they've doing this show for years."

- Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

"It's a 90 min play that feels like a 60 minute play which is quite a compliment, in my opinion. I was hooked the whole time. Go if you can."

- Playwright Adam Szymkowicz

"The Honest-to-God True Story of the Athiest] is enacted with great style and wit by three expert performers, Abe Goldfarb (the husband and the atheist), Jennifer Gordon Thomas (the wife), and Daryl Lathon (the salesman). (Maybe the three are also supposed to be Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.) There's also lively musical accompaniment by keyboardist Wes Matthews, and a tremendously effective lighting by Sabrina Braswell. Director Isaac Butler keeps the pace brisk and the mood ever-changing; sometimes we're delightedly detached from the downright silliness of the atheist and/or his opponents, and then, turning on a dime, we're caught up in the essential seriousness of the great unknowable that the atheist seems to be taking for granted."

- Martin Denton, Nytheatre.com

"The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist a deconstructionist take on faith and one's submission to the will of God, an examination on our culture's sick obsession with pharmaceuticals, or the longest dick joke in theatrical history? Whatever it is, Dan Trujillo is playing a very crafty shell game with his newest play, The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist. It's kind of brilliant.

I know writing "kind of brilliant" sounds like damning with faint praise, but I don't mean to be. The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist doesn't just take cheap potshots at the faithful (or faith) or at those of the more atheistic persuasion. Instead, it is a very sly and crafty show that challenges and toys with the audiences' preconceptions and expectations."

- James Comtois, Jamespeak