Samantha Pauly

A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.

The TikTok musical sensation, based on the Disney/Pixar film, comes to delicious life for an unprecedented, community-written, Broadway-caliber, lip-smacking special event to benefit The Actors Fund.

The film, created and directed by acclaimed celebrity photographer and artist Jasper Soloff, traces the highs and lows of Sam Pauly’s career as she sits down in her Broadway dressing room recalling the sudden cancellation of a planned world tour which forced her to confront the possibility of walking away from the profession she had fought so hard to build a place in. With work disappearing overnight and the future of theater uncertain, Pauly wrestled with burnout, financial pressure, and painful questions faced by many performers.

A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.

The film, created and directed by acclaimed celebrity photographer and artist Jasper Soloff, traces the highs and lows of Sam Pauly’s career as she sits down in her Broadway dressing room recalling the sudden cancellation of a planned world tour which forced her to confront the possibility of walking away from the profession she had fought so hard to build a place in. With work disappearing overnight and the future of theater uncertain, Pauly wrestled with burnout, financial pressure, and painful questions faced by many performers.