Show Info

Title 

Deep Fried Dolphins 

Playwright 

Cianon Jones 

Director 

Josh Turner 

Stage Manager 

Aasrith Veerapaneni 

Category 

Production 

First Rehearsal 

Friday, April 3rd 

Load In/Tech /Dress 

Wednesday and Thursday, May 6th & 7th  

Performances 

Friday, May 8th at 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

Will be announced starting 9:00 am March 26th.

Cast List

Will be announced March 29th

Contact

Questions or concerns?

Contact Aasrith Veerapaneni, Stage Manager: aasrith-veerapaneni@uiowa.edu