Photos: First Look at FAT HAM at Geffen Playhouse
The cast stars Nikki Crawford, Marcel Spears and more.
Geffen Playhouse is presenting the West Coast premiere of the Broadway production of five-time Tony Award nominee and 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Fat Ham, written by James Ijames. The Geffen Playhouse West Coast premiere of Saheem Ali’s Broadway production of Fat Ham is directed by Sideeq Heard, who also served as associate director for the Broadway production.
Get a first look at photos below!
The cast includes Nikki Crawford (The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, Stormy Weather) as Tedra; Chris Herbie Holland (White Noise, The Box) as Tio; Billy Eugene Jones (Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play) as Rev/Pap; Adrianna Mitchell (Snowfall, What to Send Up When It Goes Down) as Opal; Marcel Spears (The Neighborhood, The Mayor) as Juicy; Benja Kay Thomas (Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Bootycandy) as Rabby; and Matthew Elijah Webb (YELL: a “documentary” of my time here, A Raisin in the Sun) as Larry.
Opening night is Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Meet Juicy, a young, queer Black man with a Shakespearean-sized dilemma. When the ghost of his dead father shows up at his family’s BBQ wedding reception demanding his murder be avenged, does the poetic and sensitive Juicy have it in him to do the deed, or will he “to thine own self be true?” See what the New York Times calls “a hilarious yet profound tragedy smothered in comedy,” in this Pulitzer Prize–winning take on Hamlet, direct from Broadway to L.A.
Photo credit: Jeff Lorch
Marcel Spears and Billy Eugene Jones
Nikki Crawford and Marcel Spears
Marcel Spears and Nikki Crawford
Chris Herbie Holland and Marcel Spears
Nikki Crawford, Billy Eugene Jones, Marcel Spears, Matthew Elijah Webb and Adrianna Mitchell
Billy Eugene Jones, Nikki Crawford, Benja Kay Thomas, Marcel Spears, Adrianna Mitchell and Matthew Elijah Webb
Matthew Elijah Webb and Marcel Spears
Marcel Spears and Niki Crawford
Adrianna Mitchell, Chris Herbie Holland and Marcel Spears
Adrianna Mitchell and Benja Kay Thomas
Marcel Spears and Billy Eugene Jones
Billy Eugene Jones and Marcel Spears
Matthew Elijah Webb, Billy Eugene Jones and Benja Kay Thomas
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