By AriDy Nox and Jacinth Greywoode

A musical within a folktale within a ritual, Black Girl in Paris is all about Sally Hemings, a fourteen-year-old enslaved Black woman from Virginia who, by a twist of fate, suddenly finds herself in Paris, France. With the French Revolution fast approaching and her slave master looming in the background, Sally must figure out just how much she is willing to give up for a chance at freedom. Full of defiant joy, this show explores one of the most pressing questions of our age:

Do we live free?

INSTAGRAM:

We are so proud to be apart of the 38th annual Festival of New Musicals with @namt_org this coming October!

We have been so lucky to have worked with NAMT in the past through the Frank Young Fund, which allowed us to get our first real draft of act

That time we won the Richard Rodger’s Award and our writers got to meet @angeladaviss_a AND @lin_manuel AND got a picture with @mindidickstein!!!

It’s been a long time coming, but as we get closer and closer to Black Girl in Paris premiering before a live audience, we think it’s just about time we launched a Patreon. If you have been craving a way to stay up-to-date with our progre

We are well settled in Virginia, diving into Jefferson’s papers, scavenger hunting for Sally.

The Joe’s Pub Concert was a total success and we just want to applaud everyone involved.

Altars, snacks, notebooks, and tablereads? Gotta be rehearsal for our latest reading! #blackgirlinparis🎶

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CONTACT US

Email: bgipmusical@gmail.com

Check out our pitch deck here!

Representation

Max Grossman, UTA | max.grossman@unitedtalent.com

Noah Ezell, Michael Moore | noah@michaelmooreagency.com

JACINTH GREYWOODE: jacinth@jacinthgreywoode.com

ARIDY NOX: aridy@aridynox.com

The creatives

ARIDY NOX (words) is a Black, queer creative strategist and worldbuilder who utilizes their diverse talents to create pockets of liberation as frequently and joyfully as possible. They are a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Performing Arts at NYU, a beneficiary of the inaugural Musical Theatre Factory MAKERS cohort (2019/2020), a Public Theatre Emerging Writer’s Group fellow (2020/2023), a Live and In Color June Bingham Commission Writer (2020/2023), a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer (2022/2025), a Rattlestick Theatre Van Lier New Voices Fellow (2023/2024), a Richard Rodgers Musical Theatre Award recipient (2025), and an Artist-in-Residence at Ars Nova (2025/2026). They have been privileged to do their work all around the world and in collaboration with many incredible people of various backgrounds. Whether it is through musicals or administrative processes, AriDy is dedicated to creating pathways to freedom that encourage people to shape a better world for themselves and their communities.

JACINTH GREYWOODE (music) is a Brooklyn-based composer, orchestrator, and music director. As composer: BLENDED HARMONY (Theater Mu). BLACK GIRL IN PARIS (Richard Rodgers Winner); IRON JOHN (NAMT Winner, Richard Rodgers Finalist), WHITE RAVEN, BLACK DOVE (White Snake Projects). Broadway: CULT OF LOVE (Music Supervisor/Arranger), SOLDIER’S PLAY (Music Consultant/Arranger), ROSE TATTOO (AMD). Off-Broadway: MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT (Vineyard; Original music); …WHOLESALE (CSC; MD/Orchestrator); CHASING GRACE (SheNYC; MD/Orchestrator). NY: JELLY'S LAST JAM and WONDERFUL TOWN (Encores!; AMD). Regional: HOW TO BREAK (Village Theater; MD/Composer).

ZHAILON LEVINGSTON (director) is a Louisiana-raised storyteller, director, and activist. He is a Board Member for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which he co-created, and Artistic Director of Inheritance Theatre Project. Select Credits: CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical), CHICKEN AND BISCUITS, LITTLE MISS PERFECT