I am an ARTIST.
Actor.
Singer.
stylist.
Director.
educator.
Creative Director.
Costume Designer.
Teaching Artist.
LGBTQ+ trailblazer.
HUMAN.
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"LARRY"
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Playing March 4 - 29, 2026
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ORLANDO
SHAKES
in ORLANDO, FL
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Directed By: Roberta Emerson
ABOUT THE SHOW
- 2022 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER -
James Ijames built his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham—an examination of Hamlet & Black masculinity, the nature of revenge, and intergenerational trauma—from his own experience of the play as an actor cast as Hamlet. In a conversation with journalist Barbara Bogaev, Ijames shares a bit of his thought process around adapting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a play he calls, “unabashedly Black and undeniably exuberant, resilient, and queer.”
LATEST NEWS
‘17/18 StageSceneLA’s Scenie Awards • • •
I’ve been nominated & deemed WINNER of my first award for my portrayal of Lola in Kinky Boots by the StageScene LA’s “Scenie” Awards!
Category is: “Break Out Performance in a Touring Production” - Jos N. Banks as Lola in KINKY BOOTS!!!
BWW Review: KINKY BOOTS at Starlight Theatre
" Jos N Banks, as Lola, is a quadruple threat! Banks acting makes one think he was born onstage and has never left. His singing and dancing in numbers like "Sex is in the Heel" are stellar, and his acrobatics in both heels and boxing gloves must make him the envy of the Broadway acting community! "
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- Paul Bolton, Broadway World.