About the Show
Cam is fat, but she’s finally found the road to recovery: starving! Oh. Wait. No, that’s no good. Fat Girl Starving follows Cam as she enrolls at an in-patient recovery center for Atypical Anorexia, where she meets Rachel, Elle, Ollie, and Arthur, all in different stages of recovery. Can they make peace with their bodies and themselves? A darkly humorous pop-punk musical, Fat Girl Starving challenges societal conceptions around dieting and body size and unblinkingly asks the audience to examine its connection to the widely-accepted and overlooked stigma of fatphobia.
Production History
Fat Girl Starving has had songs performed at 54 Below in collaboration with Actors Therapy and at the New Musicals Mixtape Concert. It was developed in the Julia de Burgos Cohort and the Theatre Now NY Lab. It will be having a table read with Theatre Now in Fall 2024.
Breakdown
Running Time: 90 minutes
Cast size: 5
3W, 1NB or Transmasc, 1M
Musical Style: Pop Punk
Cast size: 5
3W, 1NB or Transmasc, 1M
Musical Style: Pop Punk