What the Constitution Means to Me
By Heidi Schreck | Directed by Kirk Jackson & Erin Nicole Harrington
September 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2024
Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 PM, Sundays 2:00 PM
Tickets: $30 Adults, $15 Students 21 and Under
Half memory play, half debate, this timely production of Heidi Schreck’s hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.
More about the play: Fifteen-year-old Heidi Schreck earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this Tony-nominated stage-play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Following each performance, volunteers from The League of Women Voters will be available on site to help folks register to vote.
Listen to our interview with Jesse King on 51%, WAMC’s national program on women’s issues!
Special Events:
September 7, 7:30 pm – American Legion Night
September 8, 2:00 pm – League of Women Voters Matinee
Content warning: What the Constitution Means to Me contains mentions of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and discussions of abortion and its stigmatization.
Featuring Kim Stauffer as Heidi, Oliver Wadsworth as The Legionnaire, and Isabella “Izzy” Brown as The Debater
Cast and Creative Team
KIM STAUFFER (Heidi) is thrilled to be returning to Hubbard Hall where she previously performed in Stupid F*cking Bird. Other credits include: What the Constitution Means to Me, The Crucible, Taming of the Shrew, Outside Mullingar (Capital Repertory Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Stuart, Macbeth (New York Classical Theatre); Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Tempest, Macbeth, Pericles, Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC); Circle Mirror Transformation (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Gaslight, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible (Barrington Stage Company); Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Othello (Shakespeare Festival St. Louis); Disgraced, Madagascar, Crime and Punishment (Chester Theatre); Emilie: La Marquise du Chatelet Defends her Life Tonight (WAM Theatre); Proof (Triad Stage); Time Stands Still (New Century Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage Company) FILM/TV: Hence the Stars, Pearl Divers, Small Shots: The Amish Matrix. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a passionate practitioner of Applied Theatre as a facilitator with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Kimstauffer.com @KimStauffer1. Here’s to imagining “something else.” For my mom, Nancy.
OLIVER WADSWORTH (The Legionnaire) is thrilled to be back at Hubbard Hall where he has appeared in The Book Club Play, Velocity of Autumn and The Tarnation of Russell Colvin. He has worked extensively throughout the country. He was in the first National tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. OFF BROADWAY: Sideways (Pecadillo Theatre), Endpapers (Variety Arts); Well (The Public Theater); Bread and Roses (New York Theatre Workshop). REGIONAL credits; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Red Maple (BroadwayWorld Berkshires Best Actor Award), Fully Committed (Metroland Best Performance), The Taming of the Shrew, and Take Me Out (The Rep), Fall River (Penguin Rep); Peter and the Starcatcher (Pioneer Theatre); Mystery of Irma Vep (Arizona Theatre Company); Misalliance (Old Globe and Seattle Repertory); An Enemy of the People (Long Wharf Theatre); Santaland Diaries, Dracula and Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Santaland Diaries, Velocity of Autumn and A Nantucket Christmas Carol (White Heron Theatre); Peter Pan (Denver Center Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Syracuse Stage); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Fulton Theater); Shipwrecked (AriZoni Award, Actors Theatre of Phoenix); Sherlock Holmes and the Jersey Lily, Noises Off and Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival); Stones In His Pockets (Metroland Best Performance, Adirondack Theatre Festival). TV & FILM: “Deliver Us from Evil”, “Ed’s Next Move”, “Dotty Gets Spanked”, “Blacklist”, and “Law and Order SVU”. MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program. www.OliverWadsworth.com
ISABELLA “IZZY” BROWN (The Debater) (any pronouns but she) lives in Pittsfield, MA of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Current Role with Hubbard Hall: Debater. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: What The Constitution Means To Me (Cap Rep and WAM Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors, She Kills Monsters, Pippin, Blue Stockings (Pittsfield High School), Touring Show, Footloose, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, Aladdin, The Lion King, A Christmas Carol, Mary Poppins (Berkshire Theatre Group), The Supa Dupa Kid, The Wild Tale of Skylar Squirrel (Barrington Stage), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare and Co.).
KIRK JACKSON (Director) for Hubbard Hall has directed Fun Home, Stupid F*cking Bird, A Walk in the Woods, The Tarnation of Russell Colvin, The Book Club Play, and three operas: Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, and La Pizza con Funghi. As an actor he’s done several plays at Dorset Theatre Festival, including as Sherlock Holmes. He appeared with Living Room Theatre in Lucy’s Wedding, and an Irish Three Sisters; and staged A Doll’s House: Part 2 and Constellations in an empty swimming pool at the Park McCullough house in North Bennington. Kirk has performed on and off Broadway and regionally; has assisted Tony-award winning director Ivo van Hove on many productions including Scenes from a Marriage, The Little Foxes, The Misanthrope, Hedda Gabler, and More Stately Mansions. He is a founding member of the Obie Award-winning Cucaracha Theatre in NYC, and has taught at Princeton, NYU, CalArts, the University of San Diego, Binghamton University, and Bennington College (faculty since 2001). He holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
ERIN NICOLE HARRINGTON (Director) Erin’s recent directing credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Humans, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was named a Top 10 Non-Equity Production of the Year for the Capital Region by the Saratogian. She also led the creation of the region’s first Sensory Friendly Performance Program, providing accommodations for patrons of all ages with sensory sensitivities. Erin is a graduate of SUNY Potsdam, where she majored in Theatre and English with a concentration in Dramaturgy. She is also the Executive Director of Hubbard Hall, becoming the first woman to hold this role and possibly the first female leader at Hubbard Hall since Mary Hubbard, who managed the Hall for 25 years in the late 1800s.
RICHARD MACPIKE (Costume Designer) previously designed costumes for Fun Home, Stupid F*cking Bird, A Walk In the Woods, and The Book Club Play here at Hubbard Hall. He is the Costume Shop Manager and Technical Instructor of Costume Production at Bennington College where he designed The Chechens, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Great Expectations. From 2001-2011 he managed the costume shop at Cornell University and prior to 2001 was a project manager at Parson-Meares, Ltd. in NYC producing costumes for Broadway, Feld Entertainment, and Walt Disney World. Regional production credits: Huntington Theatre Co., Alliance Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera. MFA: Boston University.
MAUREEN “MOE” COSSEY (Stage Manager) is a local theater professional, musician and actor. She attended the Crane School of Music and SUNY Albany, majoring in Vocal Performance. For the past seven years, she has been the resident Stage Manager at Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education in Cambridge, NY. Local onstage theater credits include Little Shop of Horrors (voice of Audrey II, Fort Salem Theater), Bright Star (Mama Murphy, FST), Pirates of Penzance (Edith, FST) and Mary Poppins (Ms. Andrew, FST). Other recent stage roles include Mother Abbess (cover) in The Sound of Music (HMT) and Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music (MACC). When not on stage, Moe serves as lighting/sound designer/stage manager for various local theaters. Some recent favorites include Fiddler on the Roof (MACC, Stage Manager) and Ragtime (Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Lighting Designer). All the best to all those who support live and local theater!
