Chimo's 2010 work in the plays
Bachelorette and
Circle Mirror Transformation was praised by Erik Piepenburg of
The New York Times, who lauded Chimo for transforming herself into two characters so distinct from one another, commenting, "If, at the same time, you could meet the shy, expressionless Lauren, mumbling into the wall of her red hoodie, and the glittering, claws-extended Regan, the meanest predator on the hunt, it would be hard to believe that they are the same person underneath. And maybe they aren’t — even if the actress Tracee Chimo channeled those characters to critical acclaim in two
Off-Broadway plays this season." Chimo's performance in
Mirror was also singled out by
Elisabeth Vincentelli of the
New York Post, who called her "a master of the comic silent reaction." In 2012,
Charles Isherwood of
The New York Times, who also noted Chimo's performances in these two productions, called her work in the Broadway revival of
Harvey "excellent". Echoing other critic's, Isherwood stated, "What's most startling about this actress is her versatility: she seems to be almost physically transformed from performance to performance, so deeply does she burrow into her characters’ identities. I didn’t recognize her at all, with her hair a frizzy
nimbus of angry-looking dark curls and her face scrubbed free of makeup, in keeping with Daphna’s righteous self-seriousness." ==Awards and nominations==