Fat Ham Tickets

Marcel played the role of Juicy in the Public Theater/National Black Theatre production of Fat Ham. Spears co-stars in the hit CBS comedy series The Neighborhood, now airing its 5th season. Prior to that, Spears was seen on the ABC comedy The Mayor and in the Netflix/BET film Always a Bridesmaid. Marcel’s theater credits includes the West Coast premiere of Ironbound (Geffen Playhouse); At the Old Place (La Jolla Playhouse); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Old Globe Theater); Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Two River Theater) and Trouble in Mind (Guthrie Theater). On the New York Stage, Spears was seen in Othello (Classic Stage Company), Mother Courage (Classic Stage Company), Judy (Page 73), and made his New York Stage debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Classic Stage Company, Rosemarie Tichler Fund Grant). Spears holds an MFA in acting from Columbia University.

Broadway credits include Fat Ham, A Soldier’s Play, The Book of Mormon, A Raisin in the Sun, The Trip to Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include Fat Ham (Public Theater [Obie Award]) On Sugarland (NYTW [Obie and Audelco Award, Drama Desk Nomination]), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theater Club), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), The Jammer (Atlantic Theatre Company), In the Footprint (The Civilians), Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional credits include Seven Guitars, Death of a Salesman, Good Faith, Richard II, Breath Boom (Yale Rep), Macbeth (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Good Negro (The Goodman), Stick Fly (Elliot Norton nomination for Best Supporting Actor/ Arena Stage and Huntington Theatre Company), Othello (CalShakes), Spunk (Actors Theatre of Louisville), The People Before the Park (Premiere Stages). Other stage credits include productions at Two River Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, and numerous productions at The Dallas Theater Center. Billy is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Regional: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (The Steppenwolf); Fat Ham (The Public Theater); Fairview (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse); Spamalot (1st Las Vegas Co); Man of La Mancha (La Mirada Theatre); Immediate Family (Mark Taper Forum); Showboat (Sacramento Music Circus); Play On! (Arena Stage). TV: Lifetime: A Country Christmas Harmony, NCIS LA, 9-1-1, NCIS, Selena: The Series, United States of Al, Criminal Minds, PBS Great Performances: Play On! Awards: NAACP Best Actress Theatre Award winner and LA Ovation Best Featured Actress nomination for Stormy Weather; Helen Hayes Award Best Supporting Actress nomination for Play On! Training: Carnegie Mellon, BFA.

Chris Herbie Holland is an actor, music producer, songwriter, and creative. He recently starred in the off- Broadway Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham at the Public Theater in NYC. Regional credits include White Noise at Berkeley Rep and The Box at Z-Space. His productions have gotten music placements on Showtime's The Chi as he frequently works with his longtime partner and collaborator Robyn Hood aka Miriam Hyman.

Adrianna Mitchell is honored to make her Broadway debut as Opal in the 2022 Pulitzer Prize winning Fat Ham after originating the role at The Public Theater. Her other major New York stage credits include Three in What To Send Up When It Goes Down at Playwrights Horizon; Sister in runboyrun at NY Theatre Workshop. A selected list of her regional credits includes Noises Off (Two River Theater); Romeo and Juliet (as Juliet) and Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua Theater); Measure for Measure (Actor’s Shakespeare Project); Hamlet (opposite John Douglas Thompson) and A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater). Ms. Mitchell heavily recurred as Tanosse on the FX hit series Snowfall. She also performed guest star roles on Queens (ABC), Bull (CBS), The Good Fight (CBS), The Blacklist (NBC), Little America (Apple TV+), and Lincoln Rhyme (NBC). Other notable television includes a series regular role on Harlem’s Kitchen opposite Delroy Lindo and Sheryl Lee Ralph (ABC Pilot). Ms. Mitchell is a graduate ofSpelman College, Phi Beta Kappa, American Conservatory Theater (MFA); British American Drama Academy.

he/him (Larry). Off-Broadway: Fat Ham (Audelco nom). Tour: Sweat (The Public Theater's Mobile National). Regional: On the Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf); Several plays at The Clarence Brown Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Sound). TV/film: The Underground Railroad (Amazon), The Deuce (HBO), High Maintenance (HBO); Better Man (Best Actor in a Short, Queens World Film Festival), Paper Friends, RSVP. Upcoming: Benny and James; The Raging Heart of Maggie Acker. BA: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. MFA: The Juilliard School.

Benja Kay Thomas is a New York based actor. Broadway: Skeleton Crew. Off-Broadway: Fat Ham (The Public), Barbecue, (Atlantic Theater); Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven and Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Booty Candy (Baltimore Center Stage); Jazz (Wilma Theater). Film/TV: A Love Song, FBI (CBS), Gotham (FOX), A Beautiful Distraction (Netflix), Detective Chinatown 2, Warrior Class, A Gun For Jennifer. Awards: OBIE & AUDELCO! Benja is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and is a member of The Actors Center and the LAByrinth Theater Company.

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