FAT HAM - San Francisco, CA EPA San Francisco Playhouse | San Francisco, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, June 17, 2024
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM (P)
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.
Bay Area Theatre
$830 weekly minimum (Tier 5)
Equity actors for roles in FAT HAM (see breakdown).
Actors with singing, and movement experience are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare the sides for the character of your choice. Sides will be provided when your appointment time is offered.
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.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Casting Director, Kieran Beccia
Director, Margo Hall
First rehearsal: February 18, 2025
Previews begin: March 20, 2025
Opening night: March 26, 2025
Closes: April 19, 2025
OTHER
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.
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
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.
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