United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut – you read that right – with a one-night-only walk-on role in & Juliet, the hit musical comedy in which the female half of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers survives the Bard’s bloody end and takes a newfound control of her own life.
& Juliet producers say the special appearance will happen during the 8 p.m. show on Saturday, December 14. Immediately following the show, audience members can stay for a talkback with the Justice.
A new ensemble role has been created specifically for Jackson.
In her new memoir Lovely One, Jackson writes about her early love of theater: “I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theater, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land—and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays [to Harvard]. I expressed that I wished to attend Harvard as I believed it might help me ‘to fulfill my fantasy of becoming the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.’”
Appointed by President Biden in 2022, Jackson became the first Black, female Supreme Court justice when she took her seat on the highest court on June 30, 2022. With this cameo appearance in & Juliet, she will indeed become the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.
& Juliet is produced on Broadway by Max Martin, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele Page, Jenny Petersson, Martin Dodd, and Eva Price, with Lukasz Gottwald; 42nd.club; Independent Presenters Network; Jack Lane; Library Company; Shellback; Shivhans Pictures; Sing Out, Louise!; Kim Szarzynski; Taylor/Riegler; Tenenbaum/Keyes; Barry Weiss; and John Gore Organization.
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