Joy Woods is breaking ground on Broadway. After a string of successful roles on the boards — including Six, The Notebook and Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors — the 24-year-old talent landed in the record books with her role in George C. Wolfe's revival Gypsy, as the first Black actress to play Louise on the Great White Way (pun intended).
Joy Woods as the title character in Gypsy on Broadway. Credit: Julieta Cervantes