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May 9, 2022 · But on Monday, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, ... “Fat Ham” was written by James Ijames, 41, who grew up in Bessemer City, N.C., and was educated at Morehouse College and Temple ...
James Ijames accepts the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. (Eileen Barroso/Columbia University) Winning Work. Fat Ham. By James Ijames. Official trailer. (Wilma Theater) A witty take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet where the only death is the patriarchy. The ghost of Juicy’s dad haunts him and asks for ...
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Ijames is a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia's first playwright producing collective. His adaptation of Hamlet, titled Fat Ham, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2022. The production ran at The Public Theater during the summer of 2022, before opening on Broadway in April 2023.
- Whiting Award, F. Otto Haas Award
- 1980 (age 42–43), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.
- Playwright, Actor
May 16, 2022 · James Ijames tells us about why his Pulitzer may change his life, how “Fat Ham” reinvents “Hamlet,” confronting prejudice in theater, and his next play and first novel.
May 22, 2022 · James Ijames, a native of Bessemer City in Gaston County, won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play "Fat Ham," an interpretation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" that is set at a North Carolina ...
May 10, 2022 · This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, and Philadelphia playwright James Ijames brought home the prestigious award. Ijames, an associate professor at Villanova University and a co-artistic director of the Wilma Theater in Center City Philadelphia, won for his play “Fat Ham,” which reimagines Shakespeare’s classic “Hamlet” as a queer, Black story set in a barbecue ...
Date premiered. April 23, 2021. Place premiered. Wilma Theater, Philadelphia. Fat Ham is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright James Ijames. It is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet. The play was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama [1] [2] [3] and was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play.
