FAT HAM **Updated** Submission - Wilma Theater Auditions

FAT HAM - VIDEO AUDITION SUBMISSION REQUEST

Wilma Theater

**Preparation updated**

APPOINTMENTS

Due to COVID-19 and Social Distancing Efforts, accepting Video Submission Auditions.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep LORT D; $717/week min

SEEKING

Video submissions from Equity actors for the role of JUICY. All other roles have been cast.

All SM positions have been filled.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Perform 1-2 monologues (3 minutes material max), or may choose between one of the two attached sides, reading the role of Juicy. They should introduce themselves and tell us what they will perform before launching into monologues/sides.
2. Drop video submissions into a google folder we have created for this purpose. Here is the link to the folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LbzctAAlSII62xYK7BJqJb3h44gNT4iK and
3. Videos can be in any format.

Deadline: Fri, Apr 10, 2020

PERSONNEL

Writer: James Ijames

Viewing auditions:
Morgan Green, co-Artistic Director and Director of FAT HAM
Kellie Mecleary, Producing Director
Briana Gause, Artistic Fellow

OTHER DATES

First rehearsal – January 19, 2021
First Preview – February 16, 2021
Opening – February 20, 2021
Closing – March 7, 2021
Extension closing – March 14, 2021

OTHER

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 submit.

BREAKDOWN

seeking

JUICY is fat. 20-21, Black. He’s beautiful. He is lonely. He is smart.

The following roles have been CAST:

TEDRA is Juicy’s mother. 45-50, Black. She is a good mother. (ALREADY CAST)

REV is Tedra's husband. 45-50, Black. Her dead ex-husband’s brother. Pig farmer and pit master. Electric. Same actor as PAP (ALREADY CAST)

OPAL is one of Juicy’s only friends. 19-20. Black. She loves Ham and worries about him. (ALREADY CAST)

LARRY a boy that is attracted to Juicy. 21-23. Black. A marine trying to heal from PTSD. Has a secret. Awkward. (ALREADY CAST)

RABBY is Larry and Opal’s mother. 40-45. Black. Tedra’s friend. Semi-churchy but honestly she just wanna drink and praise the Lord. (ALREADY CAST)

PAP is the Ghost of Juicy’s father. Appears 45ish. Black. Was in prison for killing someone cause their breath stank, til he got shanked on the way to dinner. Same actor as REV. (ALREADY CAST)

TIO is clever. 20-21. Black or Afro-Latinx . Juicy’s childhood friend. Oldest friend. (ALREADY CAST)

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 submit.