Saint John's Graduate Vies For Tony Award

Collegeville, Minn. - Michael Hayden, a 1987 graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville and a College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University theater major, has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in Judgement at Nuremburg, which opened at the Longacre Theatre in New York on March 26. The 2001 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, American theatre's most coveted honor, will be presented on Sunday, June 3, at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Nuremberg, Germany was the seat of anti-Semitism in the Third Reich. Set in 1948, Judgment at Nuremberg is based on transcripts of the second round of war trials, held in that city in the aftermath of World War II. The accused were judges who carried out the political agenda of the Nazi party. These trials had far-reaching effects as they rejected the argument that orders from a superior relieve individuals from responsibility for war crimes.

Judgement at Nuremburg features performances by Maximilian Schell, Robert Foxworth, George Grizzard and Marthe

Keller, who also received a Tony nomination-- for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Saint John's University for men and the College of Saint Benedict for women are partners in liberal arts education, providing students the opportunity to benefit from the distinctions of not one, but two nationally recognized Catholic, undergraduate colleges. Together the colleges challenge students to live balanced lives of learning, work, leadership and service in a changing world.