SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
Actress, Screenwriter, Producer
Siobhan Fallon Hogan appears as SAOIRSE in Mother's Farewell. Her thirty five year career as an actress, screenwriter and producer has included iconic roles in SNL, Men in Black, Seinfeld, Forrest Gump, Holes, Dancer in the Dark and many more.
After raising three children, the actress began writing and producing award winning independent films. Fallon Hogan penned and starred in her first film Rushed with Robert Patrick, (Terminator), Jake Weary (Animal Kingdom) and Peri Gilpin (Fraser). Vertical Entertainment released the film which was coproduced with Denmark’s Lars von Trier’s Zentropa and had a wide domestic and international release in theaters in 2021. It is now streaming with a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Her second film Shelter in Solitude directed by Vibeke Muasya starring Robert Patrick, Peter Macon (Othello), Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson) and Fallon Hogan was released by AMC and Regal Theaters across the USA in 2023 and is now streaming. It has a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fallon Hogan’s play Mother’s Farewell had its first reading at the Atlantic Theater in New York.
The theater’s artistic director, Neil Pepe, said the play starring Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond), Laila Robins (Planes Trains & Automobiles), Margaret Colin (Gossip Girls), Welker White (The Irishman) and Fallon Hogan, “is extremely commercial and hilarious with great star power and very high stakes.”
Fallon Hogan’s stage credits include Phoebe in New York Shakespeare Festival’s As You Like It in Central Park and James Lapine’s Luck Pluck & Virtue at the Atlantic Theater. Fallon Hogan has written and performed several one woman shows at the Atlantic Theater, West Side Arts and the Two River Theater in New Jersey.
In addition to several roles in America blockbusters and television, Fallon Hogan has worked internationally with Denmark’s Lars von Trier in three of his films Dancer in the Dark (Palme D’Or Winner), Dogville (Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara) and The House That Jack Built (Matt Dillon, Cannes Opening Night Selection 2018).
Mother's Farewell CAST
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton
MARY
Patricia Heaton is an American actress, producer and executive known for her roles in Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle and Carol's Second Act.
While studying acting in New York with drama teacher William Esper, Heaton made her Broadway debut in the gospel musical Don't Get God Started. She and her fellow students then formed Stage Three, an acting company that produced plays off-Broadway. They took one production, "The Johnstown Vindicator," to Los Angeles, where Heaton's performance caught the eyes of casting directors. Consequently, Heaton portrayed the producer/daughter in the television series Room for Two. Additional television credits include roles in Someone Like Me, Women of the House, Thirtysomething, and the television movie Miracle in the Woods.
Her feature film credits include Memoirs of an Invisible Man , Beethoven , The New Age and Space Jam.
For her role in Everybody Loves Raymond, Heaton won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She was nominated for a 1999 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and won the 1998-99 Viewers for Quality Television Best Actress in a Quality Comedy Award.
Margaret Colin
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton
MEGAN
Margaret Colin’s film credits include Independence Day, Three Men and a Baby, True Believer, Time to Say Goodbye, Like Father Like Son, Unfaithful, First Daughter, Blue Car, The Missing Person, Equity and Something Wild.
Television appearances include an arc on Veep (SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast), Shades of Blue, Gossip Girl, Now and Again and As The World Turns.
On Broadway, Colin portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie: An American Life (Theatre World Award).
Other Broadway credits include: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Old Acquaintance (Drama League Award nomination), Arcadia, The Columnist, Carousel (Equity’s Richard Seff Award).
Off-Broadway/Regional: Aristocrats (Drama Desk Award nomination), Psychopathia Sexualis, Defiance (Drama Desk Award nomination), Hamlet (Delacorte Theater), Salome, Betrayal (The Actors Studio), City of Conversation (Arena Stage; Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Pentagon Papers (China tour), Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown Theatre Festival).
Laila Robins
Patricia Heaton
Laila Robins
BIG SHEILA
Laila Robins was in the Tony-nominated play Frozen, for which she received a Lucille Lortel Nomination. Her other theatre credits include starring in the Broadway productions of Heartbreak House, The Herbal Bed, and The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. She also starred opposite Richard Thomas as “Miss Alice” in the Second Stage Theatre’s acclaimed revival of Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice. Other appearances off-Broadway include Sore Throats(Lucille Lortel nomination) for Theatre For A New Audience, Mrs. Klein opposite Uta Hagen and Amy Wright (for the national tour of Mrs. Klein she received a Joseph Jefferson Award and a Helen Hayes Nomination), The Merchant of Venice at The Public Theatre (Calloway Award), The Extra Man and Bloody Poetry at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Film Societyfor Second Stage Theatre.
Regionally she has been seen in A Streetcar Named Desire at The Steppenwolf Theatre (1997 Jefferson Award for Best Actress), Antony and Cleopatra, Hedda Gabler, Summer and Smoke, and the World Premiere of Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues, all at the Guthrie Theatre, Fool for Love and Fiction at the McCarter Theatre, Skylight at The Mark Taper Forum (Drama Logue Award), The Women at Hartford Stage and Lady from the Sea at Baltimore Center Stage.
Robins many film and tv credits include Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Gabriel's Fire, Homeland, and Murder in the First and the The Walking
Welker White
Welker White
Laila Robins
SHIELA
Welker White is well known for her work in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas and The Irishman. Welker’s stage credits include Lanford Wilson’s Lemon Sky at Second Stage alongside Jeff Daniels and Cynthia Nixon. Lanford introduced Welker to the legendary Circle Rep Company, where she became a member, most notably performing in Craig Lucas’ Reckless. Welker originated roles on and off-Broadway in works by playwrights such as John Patrick Shanley, Keith Reddin, Sam Shepard, and Lisa Kron.
Sinead Hogan
Welker White
Sinead Hogan
LIZZIE
Sinead Hogan has studied at the Freeman Studios, and the William Esper Studio. Her film credits include Shelter in Solitude and RUSHED.