Comedian, singer-songwriter, and performer Daisy Hobbs has launched an original musical web series about the struggles of a musical theatre actor. Titled Outcast, and now available online, the series is created, written, directed, and produced by Hobbs, who also stars as the leading character鈥攁 hilarious and well-meaning singing actor called Lisa Bobbins.
Watch the first episode, 鈥淚 Can't Be in a Black Musical,鈥� in which Lisa struggles during an audition of The Color Purple, above. Hobbs also performs the episode's title song.
Outcast, which officially launched earlier this month, is billed by Hobbs as a 鈥渕ix between Issa Rae's Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum, and Rachel Bloom's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.鈥�
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Hobbs is the first woman of color to create, write, direct, produce, star in, and compose the music for a digital series. She has performed on Broadway in Disney鈥檚 Aladdin and in the national tour of Memphis and is currently performing in Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Off-Broadway. Earlier in the show's run, the actor took us behind the scenes on a two-show day; flip through her photos below.
