Various Producers

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
Submission

CONTRACT
LOA
$831 weekly minimum (LOA ref. LORT)

PERSONNEL
Producer/Theatre Company: Virginia Stage
Company & Virginia Repertory Theatre
VSC Artistic Director: Tom Quaintance
VRT Artistic Director: Rick Hammerlly
Director: Jerrell L. Henderson
Playwright: James Ijames
Casting Director: Katja Zarolinski, CSA

OTHER DATES
Virginia Stage Company Dates
First Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
Opening: February 1, 2025
Closing: February 16, 2025

Virginia Repertory Theatre Dates
First Rehearsal: February 18, 2025
Opening: March 1, 2025
Closing: March 23, 2025

OTHER
Actors must be available for both runs.

Location: Norfolk, VA and Richmond, VA

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.

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

This is a co-production between Virginia Stage Company (VSC) in Norfolk, VA; and Virginia Repertory Theatre (VRT) in Richmond, VA.

Some roles will be understudied.

BREAKDOWN

FAT HAM

Storyline: What if the hero of the story wasn’t who everyone expected? Step aside, Hamlet. Meet Juicy, a young Southern queer college boy grappling with grief, identity...and now the ghost of his father demanding vengeance for his murder?! Set against the backdrop of a family wedding barbecue, will the poetic and sensitive Juicy lose his courage to get the answers he needs or will he find the strength to ‘his own self, be true.’ This Pulitzer-Prize-winning adaptation by James Ijames serves you a sweet and spicy blend of comedy, drama, and social commentary with a side of soul food; and reimagines this timeless classic with a bold and innovative look that shatters stereotypes and celebrates identity, togetherness, and the meaning of family.

SEEKING:
[JUICY] He/Him. Black/African-American. Early 20s. Thicc. He’s beautiful. He is lonely. He is smart. A kind of Hamlet.

[TEDRA] She/Her. Black/African-American. 40s-50s. Juicy’s mother. She is a good mother. A kind of Gertrude.

[REV/PAP] He/Him. Black/African-American. 40s-50s. REV: Tedra’s husband. Her dead ex-husband’s brother. Pig farmer and pit master. Electric. A kind of Claudius. Will double as PAP: who is the ghost of Juicy’s father. 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.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit your materials, and fill out the form at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/...

Deadline: 10/31/2024

SUBMIT TO

SALARY

LOA $831 weekly minimum (LOA ref. LORT)

UNION

AEA