FAT HAM Equity Principal Actors - San Francisco Playhouse Auditions

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AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 17, 2024

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM (P)

APPOINTMENTS

If you are a current Equity member and would like to pre-schedule an audition appointment, please email kieranbeccia@castingcollective.org by 11:59 PM PST on Thursday, June 13th.

Appointments will be offered to Equity members in the order by which requests were received. Appointment requests received after the June 13th deadline will not be accepted.

CONTRACT

Bay Area Theatre

$830 weekly minimum (Tier 5)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in FAT HAM (see breakdown).

Actors with singing, and movement experience are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare the sides for the character of your choice. Sides will be provided when your appointment time is offered.

LOCATION

San Francisco Playhouse Rehearsal Space 323 Geary St

Suite 211

San Francisco, CA 94102

Please take the elevator or stairs to the 2nd floor and follow the signs to the San Francisco Playhouse rehearsal space (suite 211). There will be a waiting room with a sign-up sheet when you arrive.

PERSONNEL

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Casting Director, Kieran Beccia

Director, Margo Hall

OTHER DATES

First rehearsal: February 18, 2025

Previews begin: March 20, 2025

Opening night: March 26, 2025

Closes: April 19, 2025

OTHER

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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

FAT HAM

by James Ijames

Directed by Margo Hall

First rehearsal: February 18, 2025

Previews begin: March 20, 2025

Opening night: March 26, 2025

Closes: April 19, 2025

SEEKING:

Juicy - Juicy is thicc. Twenty to twenty one, Black. He’s beautiful. He is lonely. He is smart. A kind of Hamlet.

Tedra - Tedra is Juicy’s mother. Forty-five to fifty, Black. She is a good mother. A kind of Gertrude.

Rev - Rev is Tedra’s husband. Forty-five to fifty, Black. Her dead ex-husband’s brother. Pig farmer and pit master. Electric. A kind of Claudius. (Doubles as Pap).

Opal - Opal is one of Juicy’s only friends. Nineteen to twenty, Black. She loves Juicy and worries about him. A kind of Ophelia.

Larry - Larry is a boy that is attracted to Juicy. Twenty-one to twenty-three, Black. A marine. Trying to heal from PTSD. Has a secret. Awkward. A kind of Laertes.

Rabby - Rabby is Larry and Opal’s mother. Forty to forty-five, Black. Tedra’s friend. Semi-churchy, but honestly she just wanna drink and praise the Lord. A kind of Polonius.

Pap - Pap is the ghost of Juicy’s father. Appears forty-five-ish, Black. Was in prison for killing someone cause their breath stank, 'til he got shanked on the way to dinner. A kind of Hamlet’s father. (Doubles as Rev).

Tio - Tio is clever. Twenty to forty, Black or Afro-Latinx. Juicy’s cousin. Oldest friend. A kind of Horatio.