2004-2005 Season: Hannah and Martin

By Kate Fodor

Directed by David Schweizer

Artistic Collaborators

Kate Fodor (Playwright) lives in Brooklyn, New York. Hannah and Martin, which was her first published play, won the Kennedy Center’s Roger L. Stevens Award and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Hannah and Martin was premiered by Timeline Theatre Company, Chicago, IL in 2003. The play originated and was developed in association with Epic Theatre Center who presented the New York City premiere on March 30, 2004.

David Schweizer (Director) was trained at the Yale School of Drama and has been directing new theater, performance and opera work nationally and internationally for thirty years, beginning with his debut at Lincoln Center with his controversial revival of Troilus and Cressida and extending to last summer’s triumph at Glimmerglass Opera Festival with Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur. His memorable residencies at national theaters in Warsaw, Sarajevo, Lisbon, Prague and Toga Village-Japan have generated productions which can still be seen on the stages of today. Last summer, his production of Rinde Eckert’s Obie Award-winning chamber opera And God Created Great Whales ran at the Barbican Center in London. Recent noteworthy productions include Wintertime by Charles Mee at Second Stage in New York, James Magruder’s new adaptation of Moliere’s The Miser at Center Stage in Baltimore, and currently running in New York City, the world premiere of William Hamilton’s White Chocolate at the Century Playhouse.

Cast

Cast Profiles

Lizzie Calogero (Alice) appeared most recently as Piggy in Lord of the Flies with Woman’s Will. Other appearances include The Memory of Water and The Colour of Justice with TheatreFIRST, Spring Storm and Who Loves You, Jimmie Orrio? with Marin Theater Company and the role of Iago in Othello, also with Woman’s Will. Ms. Calogero has performed with The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, The Magic Theatre and Wilde Irish, among others.

Nancy Carlin (Elfride/Gertrud) was last seen at San Jose Rep as Susan Potter in Holiday. Ms. Carlin is an associate artist of the California Shakespeare Theater where she appeared in recent seasons in The Importance of Being Earnest, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and Love’s Labor’s Lost and will be appearing this summer in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Parts One and Two. A former company member of the American Conservatory Theatre, she has also performed with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company and TheatreWorks. Ms. Carlin has directed productions for the Aurora Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, PlayGround, American Conservatory Theatre’s Master of Fine Arts program, and Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, CA (where she is an affiliate art ist). She is featured in the films Jon Jost’s Frameup and Night of Henna and co-produced the film Haiku Tunnel. Ms. Carlin has a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Acting from A.C.T.

Dan Hiatt (Karl Jaspers) has appeared at San Jose Rep in Enchanted April, Noises Off, A Flea in Her Ear, Cyrano, Sylvia, and Mirandolina. Other credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Othello, The Matchmaker, and others at American Conservatory Theatre; Dinner with Friends and Menocchio at Berkeley Rep; Arms and the Man, The Seagull, As You Like It, and more in five seasons at California Shakespeare Theatre; Spinning into Butter at TheatreWorks; and Life x 3, Communicating Doors and more at Marin Theatre Company. Regional credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Ford’s Theatre, Washington D.C.; The Way of the World and Mary Stuart at the Huntington Theatre, Boston; Dirty Blonde and The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Arizona Theatre Company; and Private Eyes at Seattle Rep. Last summer, he played both Benedick and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, for Lake Tahoe Shakespeare.

Robert Krakovski (Martin Heidegger) is making his first appearance at San Jose Rep. Mr. Krakovski was last seen as Lombard in Ten Little Indians at the Repertory Theater of St. Louis and as Macbeth in Macbeth at the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. Other stage work includes theaters in New York; regionally at Hartford Stage, McCarter Theater, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Orlando and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals; and abroad at The Place Theater - London, Edinburgh Fringe and at the Georgian Republic Arts Festival hosted by Vanessa Redgrave. Roles include Claudius in Hamlet, Sergius in Arms & the Man, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, the Earl of Warwick in Saint Joan, Serge in Morocco with Keir Dullea and as Caswell Crimmins in Lucky Lucy with Blythe Danner. Other credits include various national commercials and independent films, one of which, Asata: The Struggle, was screened at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Reese Madigan (Von Schirach/Gunther) is proud to be making his San Jose Rep debut in Hannah and Martin. Mr. Madigan’s Broadway credits include Holiday, (Circle in the Square); Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( Lincoln Center). His off-Broadway credits include: Henry IV Parts 1&2, Richard III, Richard II (The Joseph Papp Public Theatre); Night and Her Stars (Manhattan Theater Club); Adult Entertainment (Variety Arts); and The Appearance of Impropriety (Judith Anderson Theater). He also appeared in the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation. Regionally, Mr. Madigan appeared as Brick in The Milwaukee Rep’s production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer at Baltimore CenterStage and as Charles Surface in the Shakespeare Theatre’s production of TheSchool for Scandal. His other regional credits include: Cyrano, The Cripple of Inishmaan and The Shaugraun (Milwaukee Rep); ALife in the Theatre (Bay Street Theatre); The Hostage (Centerstage); House Arrest (Arena Stage); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare on the Sound); Miss Golden Dreams and Hunger (The Contemporary American Theatre Festival); and Twelfth Night (Indiana Rep). Mr. Madigan has starred in the kung fu movie American Shaolin and co-starred in the independent films Lost Dogs and Last Ball. His TV credits include appearances on “As the World Turns” and “All My Children.” He is a graduate of SUNY Purchase. Thanks, Mom and Dad.

Stacy Ross (Hannah Arendt) was last seen in San Jose Rep’s production of Major Barbara as the title character and in A.C.T’s The Gamester. Next up: Dolly West’s Kitchen at TheatreWorks and Trinculo in The Tempest at Cal Shakes. Other recent credits include: The Comedy of Errors and Henry IV, Parts I & II at Cal Shakes, Smell of the Kill at the Playhouse, Man of Destiny at the Aurora, Arms and the Man at Cal Shakes, The Constant Wife at A.C.T., and Book of Days at TheatreWorks. Ms. Ross’s regional credits include The Green Bird and Cloud Nine at Berkeley Rep; Spring Storm and Candida at Marin Theatre Co.; Misalliance at Baltimore Center Stage; and As You Like It and Twelfth Night at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.