Theatre credits include title role in Othello (Classic Stage Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Company; Rosemarie Tichler Fund Grant).
Spears played a prominent role in an adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
TV: Marty on “TheNeighborhood” (CBS), T.K. Clifton on “The Mayor” (ABC). Film: Always a Bridesmaid (Netflix).
MFA in acting, Columbia University.
Larry
Calvin Leon Smith
The Public: Sweat (Mobile National).
Regional: Onthe Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf); AChristmas Carol, A Christmas Story, Dracula,The Ver**on Play (Actors Theatre of Louisville); A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, TheMerry Wives of Windsor (The Clarence Brown Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Sound).
Film/TV: “The Underground Railroad” (Amazon);“The Deuce,” “High Maintenance” (HBO); Better Man, Paper Friends, RSVP.
Best Actor in a Narrative Short Queens World Film Festival. Graduate of Juilliard, BADA and University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Opal
Adrianna Mitchell
Off-Broadway: What to Send Up When it Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons), runboyrun (NYTW).
Regional: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of theShrew (Chautauqua Theater Company); Noises Off (Two River Theater); Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); and Measure for Measure (Actors’ Shakespeare Project).
TV: “Snowfall,” “Harlem’s Kitchen” (pilot), “Queens,” “The Blacklist,” “Bull,” “The Good Fight,” “Lincoln Rhyme” and “Little America.”
Mitchell attended American Conservatory Theater (MFA), Spelman College (BA) and BADA (London theatre program).
Pap
Billy Eugene Jones
Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, TheBook of Mormon, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tripto Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf and Gem of theOcean.
Off-Broadway credits include OnSugarland (NYTW); Much Ado About Nothing (The Public); Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); The Jammer (Atlantic Theatre Company); In the Footprint (The Civilians); Waiting for Godot, Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem).
Jones is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Rabby
Benja Kay Thomas
Broadway productions include Skeleton Crew.
Off-Broadway credits include Halfway BitchesGo Straight To Heaven (Atlantic Theater), Bootycandy (Obie Award; Playwrights Horizons) and Barbeque (The Public).
Regional credits include Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage) and Bootycandy (Wilma Theater).
TV and film work includes “FBI,” Discord, Gotham, A BeautifulDistraction (Netflix), Detective Chinatown 2, Warrior Class, A Gun For Jennifer.
Thomas is a member of SAG/AEA/AFTRA and active member of The Actors Center and the LABrynth Theater Company.
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Billy Eugene Jones
Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, TheBook of Mormon, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tripto Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf and Gem of theOcean.
Off-Broadway credits include OnSugarland (NYTW); Much Ado About Nothing (The Public); Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); The Jammer (Atlantic Theatre Company); In the Footprint (The Civilians); Waiting for Godot, Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem).
Jones is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Tedra
Nikki Crawford
Regional: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf); Fairview (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse); Spamalot (first Las Vegas company); Man of La Mancha (La Mirada Theatre); Immediate Family (Mark Taper Forum); Show Boat (Sacramento Music Circus); Play On! (Arena Stage).
TV: “NCIS: LA,” “9-1-1,” “NCIS,” “Selena: The Series,” “United States of Al,” “Criminal Minds,” “PBS Great Performances: Play On!”
Awards: NAACP Theatre Award; LA Ovation nomination (Stormy Weather); Helen Hayes Award nomination (Play On!).
Tio
Chris Herbie Holland
Regional credits include White Noise (Berkeley Rep), Soft (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and TheBox (Z Space).
Holland received an MFA from NYU Grad Acting and a BFA from Dartmouth College. Holland has also trained at BADA.
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U/S Rev / Pap
RJ Foster
Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy. Off-Broadway: Classic Stage Company, Billie Holiday Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem.
Regional theatre: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, TheatreSquared. TV: “Bull,” “The Good Fight,” “Power,” “Homeland,” “The Blacklist,” “Blue Bloods.”
U/S Juicy / Larry / Tio
Marquis D. Gibson
Regional: Toni Stone (American Conservatory Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Marin Shakespeare Company); The Christians,Sex With Strangers (Hippodrome Theatre); Shakespeare in Love (Cincinnati Playhouse, Baltimore CenterStage); 295N (Signature Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Cape Fear Regional Theatre). BA: Howard University.
U/S Opal
Alexandria Lewis
is a recent graduate from NYU Graduate Acting. Her credits there include King Charles III, Inthe Blood, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern AreDead and Romeo and Juliet, among others. She has worked with directors such as Mark Wing-Davey, Cristina Angeles, Bob McGraff,
Arin Arbus and Stevie Walker-Webb.
U/S Juicy / Larry / Tio
Matthew Elijah Webb
was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. An MFA graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Webb appeared in Jeremy O. Harris’ Yell: a “documentary” of my time here, Rudi Goblen’s Green Suga Bloos, and has workshopped a self-written solo play, the moment before, with Tarrel Alvin McCraney and Rudi Goblen which appeared at the Yale Cabaret.
U/S Tedra / Rabby
Rema Webb
is excited to join the Fat Ham family.
Broadway credits: The Music Man, Escape to Margaritaville, The Color Purple, Violet, The Lion King, The Book of Mormon and Ragtime. Off-Broadway/regional credits: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Unmasked, A New Brain and more.
Film/TV: “Sudden Death,” “First Born,” “Beloved.”
She is the founder of On Broadway Performing Arts Training Program, which provides acting, singing, dance classes to young people ages 6 to 16.
