Deep Fried Dolphins

Show Info

Title

Deep Fried Dolphins

Playwright

Cianon Jones

Director

Josh Turner

Stage Manager

Aasrith Veerapaneni

Category

Production

First Rehearsal

Friday, April 3^rd

Load In/Tech /Dress

Wednesday and Thursday, May 6^th & 7^th

Performances

Friday, May 8^that 5:30p and 9:00p

Roles to be cast

Age (Presentation)

Gender (Presentation)

Description

CHER

mid 50s/early 60s

man

Owner & manager, drillish, Black man

DARWIN

late 20s/early 30s

man

The assistant manager/head cashier, brash, Black man

BOBBI

late teens/early 20s

woman

The fry cook, a biting type, Black woman

TWY

late 30s/mid 40s

man

Works drive thru/mops & more, young & old for his age, Black man

BUSTER

mid/late 20s

man

New employee, high strung, sweaty, Black man

Synopsis

Once new corporate changes get inside the 12th St location of the fast food fried chicken franchisee, Down the Hatch, things keep getting stranger and stranger. But when the strangeness reveals what has maybe always been there, what does that mean for life moving forward?

Notices

Fight Choreography Breakdown

Page	Stage Directions/ Planned Action	Character(s)	Notes
121	Twy leans forth towards the gurgling oil, hearing their whelming cry. There’ssurroundings in motion and sounds supposed, but all that Twy hears is this crying Crying(His face hovering) CRYING (Before the rolling hot oil) CRYING! (AND SPLASH!!!)	Twy
122	Darwin rushes to the phone (dialing 9-1-1). Cher beelines after Darwin! A struggle for control!!Darwin manages to dial! DARWIN (screaming into the phone, mid-struggle) DARWIN Down the Hatch on 12th St! We need ambulances hereFAST! Cher pulls out a knife and SLICE–cuts the cord. Darwin stands stunned, holding the decapitated phone. Cher stareshim down, holding the knife.	Darwin, Cher

Important Dates/Holidays

3/31 Mahavir Jayanti, 4/1-4/9 Passover*, 4/2 Theravada (New Year), 4/3 Good Friday, 4/5 Qing Ming Jie, 4/5 Easter, 4/10 Good Friday (Orthodox), 4/12 Easter (Orthodox), 5/1 Beltane-Samhain, 5/1 Vesak - Buddha Day, 5/5 Cinco De Mayo

* Holidays marked with an asterisk (*) begin at sundown on the previous day.  

Callback List

Deep Fried Dolphins

Callback List

Thank you all for your work in auditions!

Callbacks will take place in Room 166 in the Theatre Building from 2-5pm on Saturday, March 28th. All on the callback list will be called for the full time.

Callback List

Corey Dixon

Preston Coleman

Iya Alexander

Lauren Jackson

Jeremy Mims

Mary Oriho

Rodney Dailey II

Freedom Johnson

Kita Bond

Please reach out to Aasrith Veerapaneni (aasrith-veerapaneni@uiowa.edu) with any questions, comments, or concerns.

Cast List

Deep Fried Dolphins

Cast List

Character	Name
Cher	Jeremy Mims
Bobbi	Mary Oriho
Darwin	Corey Dixon
Twy	Preston Coleman
Buster	Rodney Dailey II

Please email Aasrith Veerapaneni (aasrith-veerapaneni@uiowa.edu) as soon as possible accepting or declining your role.

All who are apart of New Play Festival this year will have to attend the Consent Workshop on Monday (March 30^th) at 6:30pm.

Contact

Questions or concerns?

Contact Aasrith Veerapaneni, Stage Manager