Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut in a one-night-only walk-on role in the hit jukebox musical &Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
In her memoir Lovely One, released in September, Jackson wrote about her love of theatre while applying to Harvard, saying:
“I, a Miami girl from a modest background with an unabashed love of theatre, dreamed of one day ascending to the highest court in the land—and I had said so in one of my supplemental application essays. 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.’
About her Broadway appearance, Jackson says, “I think that it means that anything is possible.”