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"Saturday Night Live" plans to add one or two black female performers to its cast as soon as January. 
  
 A representative for the NBC sketch-comedy show on Thursday confirmed reports it's answering complaints about its lack of diversity by staging showcases to choose at least one black female cast member and to hire her within weeks. 
  
 In recent weeks, the show has seen two dozen candidates in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. 
  
 The New York Times reported that a special audition for seven or eight finalists will be held Monday on the "SNL" stage in Manhattan. 
  
 It's "100 percent good for the show to have an African-American woman" in its ranks, executive producer Lorne Michaels told the Times. 
  
 Criticism for the show's lack of diversity was spurred this fall by its only black cast members, Jay Pharoah and Kenan Thompson. 
  
 Thompson voiced weariness at being obliged to play black female characters in drag. Pharoah lobbied for the addition of a specific comic, Darmirra Brunson, of the OWN sitcom "Love Thy Neighbor." 
  
 "SNL" has had just four black women in its regular troupe since premiering in 1975, with the last one, biracial Maya Rudolph, leaving in 2007. 
  
 "It's not like it's not a priority for us," Michaels said in an interview with The Associated Press in early November. "It will happen. I'm sure it will happen." 
  
 Days later, the show poked fun at itself for having no black women among its 16 regular cast members, with Kerry Washington, the star of "Scandal," as guest host. 
  
 At the top of the show, an "SNL" producer apologized for the number of black female characters Washington would need to play that night. 
  
 "We make this request both because Ms. Washington is an actress of considerable range and talent and also because 'Saturday Night Live' does not currently have a black woman in the cast," the producer told viewers. "We agree this is not an ideal situation and look forward to rectifying it in the future _ unless, of course, we fall in love with another white guy first." 
  
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 Online: http://www.www.nbc.com ||||| “S.N.L.” had been subjected to a barrage of criticism over the last several months over what seemed to be a glaring absence on the comedy show, which has had relatively few black female performers over its long history. 
  
 The criticism was kicked off by comments from two of the show’s black cast members, Jay Pharoah, who said the show needed to “follow up” on the promise to add a black woman, and Kenan Thompson, who announced he did not want to do any more impressions of black women in drag. 
  
 Comments reverberated in the media and around the Internet, with Mr. Michaels explaining that his process for selecting cast members was driven purely by talent considerations. 
  
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 He repeated that point on Thursday, saying, “We’re all about talent. It doesn’t help if somebody’s not ready — and ‘ready’ is one of the charged words. But you want to be sure you give people the best possible shot.” 
  
 Mr. Michaels said he had seen two black women performers in Chicago when he was hiring for the show this fall, but “it just wasn’t there in the studio” when they were brought to New York for the final audition. “Then when the deck got reshuffled and as we premiered we realized, it looks a different way.” 
  
 That was when a new search began, he said. 
  
 The show’s talent department held an audition for about a dozen in Los Angeles at the theater used by the improvisational group The Groundlings on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Mr. Michaels saw another dozen in New York the following Monday. (The news of the auditions first appeared on the website Gothamist on Thursday, which included a series of tweets from the women who had tried out in Los Angeles.) 
  
 Though he did not attribute the surge of interest in securing a black female directly to the criticism the show had faced, Mr. Michaels acknowledged that it was “100 percent good for the show to have an African-American woman” in the cast. 
  
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 It is not merely because the show could use a woman capable of playing the first lady, Michelle Obama, in sketches, he said, though that was important enough a consideration that all the candidates will be asked to try an impression of her Monday night. 
  
 Mr. Michaels said there had been too much focus on how the show had no one to play Mrs. Obama or Beyoncé. “That’s a weird sort of way at looking at it because you don’t judge comedy that way,” Mr. Michaels said. “Versatility is what we look for.” 
  
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 Mr. Michaels said he could not remember ever adding a new cast member in the middle of its season, but he said he had frequently added players in March or April to work them into the last few shows of a season. This season is different, he said, because NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in February will pre-empt two editions of the show. 
  
 Given the attention the issue has received, the woman who makes it onto the cast is certain to be much talked about — and subjected to unusual scrutiny. “That’s one reason we took extra time,” Mr. Michaels said. “You have to be careful to try to protect your players.” 
  
 Mr. Michaels will be in the middle of probably the busiest period of his career when all this takes place, because he is also preparing the new “Tonight” show starring Jimmy Fallon and the new edition of “Late Night” with his longtime “S.N.L.” star Seth Meyers. 
  
 And then there is the pilot he is working on for NBC’s prime-time schedule, a new take on the traditional television comedy-variety show. The star of that one: the “S.N.L.” alum Maya Rudolph. |||||
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It looks like Saturday Night Live's lack of diversity may soon be solved, at least partially: Since ribbing itself for not having a black female cast member, the show has confirmed it will add an African-American woman (possibly even two) to the cast as soon as next month, the AP reports. It's already held two showcase auditions exclusively for black female comedians—the first time that's ever happened, notes the Hollywood Reporter. Seven or eight finalists will hit the SNL stage Monday for a special audition, the AP adds, where they'll be asked to do their best Michelle Obama impression. "All told we've seen about 25 people," the show's creator Lorne Michaels told the New York Times. "A lot of the people we saw are really good. Hopefully we'll come out of the process well." It's "100% good for the show to have an African-American woman," he added. SNL has seen just four black women in its regular cast since 1975; Maya Rudolph most recently left in 2007. And while the news will likely soothe critics, cast member Kenan Thompson, who announced he was sick of playing black women in drag, might be happiest of all.