SABRINA CARPENTER

Age: 21 • Actor

Carpenter’s 2020 started, quite literally, on a high note. On March 10, she made her Broadway debut as the lead in Mean Girls. Two days later, struck by the pandemic, Broadway went dark. Carpenter—who previously starred in Disney’s Girl Meets World— doubled down on her work behind the camera. After trying her hand at producing on Netflix’s dance film Work It, she launched At Last Productions in October. Her first project is starring in and executive-producing a musical take on Alice in Wonderland, which she pitched and sold (over Zoom) for more than $1 million to Netflix. “I get to make the decisions and decide where my life gets to go,” she says. She’s also recording her fifth studio album; her first four have accrued over 1 billion streams. When asked about her goals, she thinks for just a moment: “I’d be lying if I didn’t say I wanted an EGOT.” That’s Hollywoodspeak for winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

JUDGES: Quinta Brunson, writer (Under 30 Class of 2017); Channing Dungey, chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group; Olivia Munn, actor; Lakeith Stanfield, actor (Under 30 Class of 2017)