Review for "The Whale" Regional Theatre Performance -
Next, enter Charlie’s estranged 17-year-old daughter Ellie, played by Jordan Howell, who Charlie hasn’t seen since she was 2. Her first reaction to seeing her father is “you’re disgusting … just being around you is disgusting.” That moment takes our breath away. Literally: the lady sitting next to me gasped. Ms. Howell plays the terrible teen years with such pent-up tension and side-eyed glances of both contempt and fleeting neediness that she elicits a weird sympathy of her own. She makes it clear Ellie is perhaps every bit as penned in as her father, only by mistrust and fear instead of flesh. It’s a wholly memorable performance. Even she is finally affected by her father in the end...and it was gut-wrenching. 
- Rico Robinson, Altdaily.com  ​