Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas' daughter Carys has landed a major role in an Off-Broadway show - just months after graduating from Brown University. Carys, 23, revealed this week she is producing a play in New York, sharing an open call for script submissions on social media.
In an Instagram post, Carys invited writers to pitch her their plays with the promise that the chosen one will be brought to life on stage. She wrote: 'The selected play will be performed in a rehearsal space at one of Off-Broadway's leading theater houses (details to be shared upon selection).' Rehearsals are set to kick off next month, with performances scheduled for mid-July. The deadline for hopeful playwrights to submit their scripts is 14 May.
Carys is co-producing the project with Teniayo-Ola Macaulay, a friend whom she met while studying film and international relations at Brown in Rhode Island. 'I grew up doing theatre, and I didn't study acting in school, but that's why I'm happy to be in such an informative arts space,' Carys told People magazine last October.
The young producer is following in the footsteps of both her Oscar-winning parents, who built their careers in theatre before transitioning to film. Catherine, 56, began performing in stage shows from a young age in her native Wales, joining a dance troupe that regularly travelled to London for auditions. At just nine years old, she was cast as one of the orphan girls in the original West End production of Annie, and in her early teens became a national tap-dancing champion. By 15, she had dropped out of school to pursue acting full-time in London, studying musical theatre and quickly finding work in the West End. The star won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Chicago in 2003, and a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in A Little Night Music in 2009.
Michael, 81, studied acting at The American Place Theatre in New York City and got his start at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in the 1960s, appearing in multiple productions. The couple have spoken about their children's passion for the arts, with Catherine admitting in 2021: 'Michael and I would be the first parents to say, "You know, maybe you should think of another career," but we've seen how passionate they are about the craft.'
She continued: 'They know what celebritydom is. They know the good, the bad, warts and all that. But their passion is about acting as a craft and they've done every theatre camp - my kids went off to summer camp every year, to theatre camp with the Broadway kids, and held their own very, very well, I have to say.'
Carys has already dipped her toes into the entertainment world, with acting credits in the 2024 short films Shell and F**k That Guy. The latter premiered at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris last June. While at university, she interned at Rolling Stone magazine, where she wrote five published articles on film and music, and production company Ark Media, assisting on a documentary about the Hollywood star Tatum O'Neal. During her time at Brown, Carys also studied for a year abroad at King's College London, focusing on International Relations and Affairs.
Her brother Dylan, 25, who graduated from Brown in 2022, has carved out his own path in the entertainment world while maintaining a strong focus on political activism. He hosts a weekly Gen Z political radio program called Young American with Dylan Douglas, and made his film debut in the psychological thriller I Will Come to You.
