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Supreme Court justice’s teen dream comes true with Broadway walk-on role

By Debra Cassens Weiss

December 11, 2024, 11:21 am CST

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will appear in a performance of the musical comedy & Juliet on Saturday in a one-night walk-on role.

The show announced Jackson’s Dec. 14 appearance and an audience “talkback” after the performance in an Instagram post.

CNN, Above the Law, People, Deadline, Entertainment Weekly and the Hill have coverage.

Jackson revealed in her memoir Lovely One that her Harvard University application essay expressed a desire to become “the first Black, female Supreme Court justice to appear on a Broadway stage.”

“Let’s make that teenage dream come true, Justice Jackson,” the Instagram post said.

The show & Juliet considers what would happen if the William Shakespeare character Juliet did not kill herself after the character Romeo’s death.

Jackson once performed an acting scene with actor Matt Damon in a Harvard drama class.

“He’s not going to remember this, of course,” Jackson told CBS News’ Sunday Morning in September. “The reason why I remember it is because he was already kind of well-known around campus and off campus, so it was kind of exciting to be his scene partner for a particular class.”

At the end of the scene, Jackson said, the professor told Jackson that she was very good and then addressed Damon.

“Matt, we’ll talk,” the professor reportedly said.