2025-2026 Season | FAT HAM
FAT HAM
BY JAMES IJAMES
DIRECTED BY LUTHER D. WELLS
Mainstage Series
OCTOBER 22 - 26, 2025
Charles Winter Wood Theatre,
Edmonds Stage
A 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Fat Ham is a hilarious reimagined adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The story follows Juicy, an early twenties queer Black man, who is grappling with questions of identity, his father’s death, and the unexpected task to organize a wedding celebration for his mother and uncle/step-father. Get ready to experience ghostly apparitions, a backyard BBQ, a karaoke wedding, spirited tension and plenty of laughs in this compelling examination of love and loss, pain and joy.
Suggested Audience: Age 16+ | Advisory: Contains mature language and subject matter.
MIDWEEK PERFORMANCES
Wednesday & Thursday 8 p.m.
$15 Adults
$10 Senior Citizens, FAMU Employees & Military with ID
$8 Non-FAMU Students/Children
Free FAMU Students with ID
WEEKEND PERFORMANCES
Friday 8 p.m. | Saturday 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. | Sunday 3 p.m.
$26 Adults
$21 Senior Citizens (Age 62+), FAMU Employees & Military with ID
$11 Non-FAMU Students/Children (Age 4 – 18)
Free FAMU Students with ID