Cast & Creative
CAST
Betsy Aidem
Margie
Betsy Aidem
Margie
Betsy Aidem (Margie). Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Tony nomination), Leopoldstadt (Tony Award, Best Play), All the Way (Tony Award, Best Play), Beautiful. Off-Broadway: The Ask, Prayer for the French Republic, Nikolai and the Others, The Metal Children, Mary Rose, Celebration, Final Follies, Crooked. Film/TV: Triumph of the Will, Margaret, Irrational Man, “The Savant,” “Bull,” “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Americans.” Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, Lucille Lortell Awards nomination, Drama League nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination, Richard Seff Award.
Audrey Corsa
Dora
Audrey Corsa
Dora
Audrey Corsa (Dora) is an actress and writer from California. Notable TV includes “Poker Face,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Dear Edward,” “Elsbeth,” and “All Rise.” She’s very pleased to be back on the New York stage, where she has previously appeared in Mary Page Marlowe for Second Stage, Appropriate, Othello, and As Five Years Pass at her alma mater, Juilliard.
Kayla Davion
Joanne
Kayla Davion
Joanne
Kayla Davion (Joanne) is making her NYC play debut! Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Tina), Elf (Jovie), Waitress, King Kong. Off-Broadway: White Girl in Danger (Florence). Regional: The Hippest Trip: Soul Train the Musical (Jody Watley), The Color Purple (Celie). TV: “The Good Fight,” “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” Film: Better Nate Than Ever. She sends love to God, Mike, Mom, Ball State University, Nicolosi & Co, and Untitled Entertainment. “This one is for you Nana.” “Lead with Love!”
Susannah Flood
Lizzie
Susannah Flood
Lizzie
Susannah Flood (Lizzie). Broadway: Birthday Candles, The Cherry Orchard. Select Off-Broadway: The Counter, The Comeuppance (Obie Award, Lortel nomination), Staff Meal, Make Believe, Plano, The Effect, Tribes, Scenes from a Marriage, Love and Information, Mr. Burns, The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, Fulfillment, As You Like It, Baby Screams Miracle. Select Film & TV: Kristen Stewart’s forthcoming The Chronology of Water; Ann on “Life & Beth” (Hulu) and Kate Littlejohn on “For the People” (Shondaland/ABC). BA: UC Berkeley. MFA: Brown/Trinity.
Kristolyn Lloyd
Celeste
Kristolyn Lloyd
Celeste
Kristolyn Lloyd (Celeste) (she/her). Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actress. Acting credits include Broadway: 1776, Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Paradise Blue, Confederates (Signature Theatre), Sally and Tom, Hamlet (The Public Theater), Invisible Thread (Second Stage Theatre), Heathers: The Musical (New World Stages), Cabin in the Sky (Encores! City Center), Little Women (Primary Stages). Select Regional: Paradise Blue (Williamstown). Film Credits: Mr. Crocket (Hulu). TV includes “Random Acts of Flyness” (HBO), “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “Kevin Can Wait” (CBS), “ER,” “Chicago Med” (NBC), “Lie to Me” (FOX).
Irene Sofia Lucio
Isidora
Irene Sofia Lucio
Isidora
Irene Sofia Lucio (Isidora). West End and Broadway: Slave Play, Wit. Off-Broadway: Sex Variants (Skirball), Wolf Play (MCC), Romeo y Julieta (Public Theater), Slave Play, Love & Information (NYTW), Orange Julius (Rattlestick), Undertaking (BAM), King Liz (Second Stage), We Play for the Gods (WP). Regional credits include Yale Rep, Studio Theatre of DC, California Shakespeare, Williamstown and Chautauqua. TV: “The Americans,” “Bartlett,” “Casi Casi.” Co-creator of “BUTS Webseries” (NBCU Short Film Festival winner, Imagen Award nomination). Education: Princeton & Yale School of Drama. Native of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Charlie Thurston
Bill
Charlie Thurston
Bill
Charlie Thurston (Bill) is an actor and playwright. This is his Broadway debut. He and his castmates won the Drama Desk for Best Ensemble for Liberation’s recent Off-Broadway production. Other recent NYC theatre credits include Macbeth In Stride at BAM and Here There Are Blueberries at NYTW (2025 Lucille Lortel for Outstanding Play). Charlie is also a company member at Trinity Rep and has performed at theaters across the country. In TV/Film, he played Roland in HBO Max’s “Julia” and Bill Harris in “Dexter: New Blood.” Additional selected credits include Boston Strangler, Finestkind, and Life Itself. Charlie is also an accomplished audiobook narrator—credited on more than 150 titles, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
Adina Verson
Susan
Adina Verson
Susan
Adina Verson (Susan) (they/she). TV credits include Poppy White on “Only Murders in the Building”; “New Amsterdam”; “And Just Like That”; “Mozart in the Jungle”; “The Strain.” Theatre credits include the original casts of Indecent (Broadway, Ahmanson); A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum); Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Collective Rage (MCC); Eddie and Dave (ATC); and The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova). Adina holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. This one is for Zelda.
Britt Faulkner
U/S LIZZIE, DORA, SUSAN
Britt Faulkner
U/S LIZZIE, DORA, SUSAN
Britt Faulkner (she/her): Broadway debut. Theatre: Jordans (The Public), Lover I’ll Bring You Back to Life (ArsNova), A Lie of the Mind (Trinity Repertory Theater), A Snow White (Berkshire Theatre Group). TV: “Kaleidoscope” (Netflix), “We Crashed” (AppleTV), “Invasion” (AppleTV), “FBI” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “Happy!” (SyFy). Film credits include Irrational Man directed by Woody Allen. MFA: Brown/TrinityRep. For RSM.
LeeAnne Hutchison
u/s Isidora, Margie
LeeAnne Hutchison
u/s Isidora, Margie
LeeAnne Hutchison (u/s Isidora, Margie). NYC: Septimus & Clarissa, A Lovely Sunday, God Shows Up, Orpheus, Our Country’s Good. Regionally: Eureka Day, August: Osage County, Clybourne Park, Sex with Strangers, Frankie & Johnny, The Cake, Streetcar, Mary Todd Lincoln in Mrs. President. TV: “Law & Order,” “Jessica Jones,” “White House Plumbers.”
Matt E. Russell
u/s Bill
Matt E. Russell
u/s Bill
Broadway: The Inheritance. Off-Broadway: Liberation (Roundabout); Jordans, Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge, and Much Ado About Nothing (The Public Theater); Help (The Shed). TV/Film includes “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Westworld,” Working Man, and Some Freaks. Matthew has performed with Elevator Repair Service and the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble.
Kedren Spencer
u/s Celeste, Joanne
Kedren Spencer
u/s Celeste, Joanne
Kedren Spencer (u/s Celeste, Joanne). Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’. Off-Broadway: Liberation, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine. Select regional: Toni Stone, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Little Shop of Horrors. Film: Pen, Again; Reopening; Half Day. Select TV: “Law & Order,” “Pretty Little Liars: SS,” “Bull,” “New Amsterdam.” MFA, FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
CREATIVE
Bess Wohl
Playwright
Bess Wohl
Playwright
Bess Wohl is a playwright and filmmaker whose plays have been produced on and off Broadway, regionally and internationally. Wohl’s plays include Grand Horizons (Broadway, Tony Nomination), Camp Siegfried, Make Believe, Continuity, Small Mouth Sounds, American Hero, Touch(ed), In, Cats Talk Back, and the musical Pretty Filthy. Her plays have been recognized with a variety of awards and nominations, including the Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle. She made her feature film debut with her film Baby Ruby, starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington, which she wrote and directed. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures in 2023. She also is developing multiple television projects and wrote for the Apple TV+ series “Extrapolations.” Wohl is an associate artist with The Civilians, an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group, and the recipient of new play commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recently, she made her West End debut with a sold out run of Barcelona starring Lily Collins. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama.
Whitney White
Director
Whitney White
Director
Whitney White (Director) is an Obie and Lilly Award-winning director, writer, and musician based in New York. Recent directing: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Broadway), The Secret Life of Bees (The Almeida), Soft (Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Direction), On Sugarland (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Direction), What to Send Up When it Goes Down (The Public, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Woolly Mammoth, America Repertory Theatre), The Amen Corner (Shakespeare DC), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage/WP Theater), For All The Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Soho Rep). Original works include Semblance (NYTW), Definition (Bushwick Starr), and Macbeth in Stride, for which she won an Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance (American Repertory Theatre, Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company). Fellowships include Sundance Theatre Lab, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, Drama League Next Wave, Jerome Fellowship, Colt Coeur, Roundabout Directing Fellowship. Whitney is a Rolex Arts Initiative Protegee, an Associate Artist at the Roundabout, and an Associate Director at Shakespeare DC. Recently, she was also a writer on Boots Riley’s upcoming show “I’m A Virgo” (Amazon/Media Res). MFA Brown Trinity Rep, BA Northwestern.
Daryl Roth
Producer
Daryl Roth
Producer
Daryl Roth (Producer) is a 13-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and leading innovator in the American theatre, with a career spanning over three decades. Credited with some of the most thought-provoking productions in New York City and throughout the world, Ms. Roth has brought to the stage the works of many of our greatest dramatists, including Edward Albee, Paula Vogel, and Nilo Cruz; has helped shepherd the careers of new playwrights; and is the force behind the Tony and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots (Broadway, U.S. Tour, London, Toronto, Australia, Korea, Japan) and most recently produced The Picture of Dorian Gray in London and on Broadway. Ms. Roth is honored to hold the singular distinction of producing seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Osage County (2008 Tony Award); Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award); How I Learned to Drive; Proof (2001 Tony Award); Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; and Wit. She champions stories that connect to the wider world ??through the stories they tell? and is particularly drawn to themes that include issues of gender and identity, family dynamics, stories with strong women at the core, and those that reflect her Jewish heritage. Among the more than 130 shows she has produced both on and Off Broadway include Larry Kramer’s seminal play about the AIDS crisis, The Normal Heart (2011 Tony Award); Paula Vogel’s award-winning play Indecent; Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s international hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and Gloria: A Life, a play about the iconic Gloria Steinem. Other prominent productions include Absolute Brightness; Angels in America; Between the Lines; Buyer & Cellar; Company; Curtains; Funny Girl; Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia; Into the Woods; It Shoulda Been You; The Kite Runner; Left on Tenth; Life of Pi; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; War Horse; and The Year of Magical Thinking. Dedicated to supporting a number of non-profit organizations, Ms. Roth is a Trustee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Lincoln Center Theatre. Honors include The New Dramatists Outstanding Career Achievement Award; New York Living Landmarks Award; and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. She is proud to have been inducted into the 2017 Theatre Hall of Fame and be named to Crain’s 2019 “50 Most Powerful Women in New York.”
Eva Price
Producer
Eva Price
Producer
Eva Price (Producer) is an NYCLU/ACLU honoree and a three-time Tony Award-winning, two-time Olivier Award-winning producer. Her productions have garnered six Olivier Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and 19 Tony Awards. Current: & Juliet (Broadway, nine Tony nominations). Recent: Redwood, Jagged Little Pill (National Tour), Titanique (Off-Broadway, Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical), The Hip Hop Nutcracker (Touring Live Show, Disney +). Select credits: A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group); Jagged Little Pill (two Tony Awards); Oklahoma! (two Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, Best Musical Revival, National Tour, West End); Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; What the Constitution Means to Me; Angels in America (Tony-winning Broadway Revival starring Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield); Dear Evan Hansen (six Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards); On Your Feet!; Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!; Peter and the Starcatcher (five Tony Awards); Colin Quinn Long Story Short (directed by Jerry Seinfeld); Mindplay (Geffen Playhouse); Annie; The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino; Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking; The Addams Family (starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth); as well as several solo shows and critically acclaimed concerts starring The Temptations and the Four Tops; Kathy Griffin; Lewis Black; and Hershey Felder. Off-Broadway: Sanctuary City (NYTW); Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical (le Poisson Rouge; National Tour); Drama Desk-nominated Found; The Lion (Drama Desk winner; Off-West End winner for Best Musical); and Bess Wohl’s critically acclaimed Small Mouth Sounds. International/Touring: The Hip Hop Nutcracker with Rap Icon Kurtis Blow (Emmy Award for PBS Special Live Capture); The Magic School Bus, Live!: The Climate Challenge; Ella, a bio-musical about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald. For five years Eva worked as an assignment editor and coordinating producer for special projects at ABC News, spending her last year producing and reporting on stories relating to Broadway for ABCNews.com.
Rachel Sussman
Producer
Rachel Sussman
Producer
Rachel Sussman (Producer) is a Tony Award-winning creative producer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is a co-founder of Soto Productions and The MITTEN Lab, an emerging artist residency program in her native state of Michigan focused on nurturing the next generation of theatre artists. She is also a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, an educational venture with the aim of democratizing commercial producing knowledge in an effort to develop more transparency between artists and producers. She has been a guest lecturer and educator at UPenn, The New School, Fordham University, University of Michigan, Juilliard, and the University of Southern California, among others. She serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Berklee NYC. She has previously worked with such companies as Plate Spinner Productions, Audible Theater, The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Second Stage Theatre, RKO Stage, the New York Musical Festival (NYMF), Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, and CREATE-Ireland in Dublin. Broadway lead producing credits include: Tony and OCC Award-winning Suffs, as well as the Special Tony and Emmy Award winner Alex Edelman’s Just for Us (also on HBO). Broadway co-producing: Parade (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Award); What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nomination and Pulitzer Prize finalist); Romeo & Juliet (Tony nomination); Gypsy starring Audra McDonald (Tony nomination); Prima Facie with Jodie Comer. Off-Broadway: All Nighter, The Woodsman, Lightning Rod Special’s The Appointment. Additional productions include Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live! (with Plate Spinner Productions at The Rainbow Room), The Swimmer: The Diana Nyad Story and The Peculiar Patriot (Audible Theater @ The Minetta Lane), Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Next Door at NYTW), The Rug Dealer (Women’s Project Pipeline Festival), and Talk to Me About Shame (FringeNYC, Overall Excellence Award). Upcoming: Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2025 and Suffs national tour beginning fall 2025.
Jenny Gersten
Producer
Jenny Gersten
Producer
Jenny Gersten (Producer). An award-winning producer, Jenny Gersten’s work spans non-profit institutions and commercial theater. Previously she served as associate producer and then artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival, associate producer at The Public Theater, executive director of Friends of the High Line, and producer at PAC NYC during design and planning. Recent credits include Just for Us (Broadway), Beetlejuice (Broadway), Sweeney Todd (Off-Broadway), Gavin Creel’s Walk On Through (with MCC), and the Broadway transfers of City Center productions of Parade and Once Upon a Mattress. Since 2020, Gersten has produced City Center’s three annual Encores! revivals and Annual Gala presentations.
David Zinn
Set Design
David Zinn
Set Design
David Zinn (Set Design). Recent: Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Notebook, Here We Are, Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, The Humans, SpongeBob SquarePants, Fun Home. Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, MTC, NYTW, LCT, 2d Stage, Public. Also: A.C.T., A.R.T, Berkeley Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep; and The National, Young Vic (UK); Berlin Staatsoper; and Theater Basel. He’s received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Hewes and Obie Awards for his work.
Qween Jean
Costume Design
Qween Jean
Costume Design
Qween Jean (Costume Design) is an NYC-based costume designer who has fully committed her voice to the advocacy of marginalized communities. She is thrilled to collaborate on Liberation. Qween founded Black Trans Liberation, which aims to provide access and housing resources for the TGNC community. Jean is the author of Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation (Aperture). In 2023, she joined the Board for TCG. Awards: Obie for Excellence in Costume Design; finalist for NYC David Prize. MFA from NYU Tisch.
Cha See
Lighting Design
Cha See
Lighting Design
Cha See (Lighting Design). Highlights include You Will Get Sick; Covenant (Roundabout Theatre); Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! (Broadway); Wet Brain (Obie Special Citations, Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design); Babbitt (La Jolla Playhouse); JORDANS (Public Theater); On That Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lortel Nominations for Outstanding Lighting Design); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T. and National Tour); soft (MCC).
Palmer Hefferan
Co-Sound Designer
Palmer Hefferan
Co-Sound Designer
Palmer Hefferan (Co-Sound Designer) is a Tony-nominated sound designer for live performance. She has designed over 85 productions across the US. In 2024, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for her sound design of The Comeuppance. Recent productions include Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera, the musical Teeth at New World Stages, Shit. Meet. Fan. at MCC Theater, and John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway.
Ben Truppin-Brown
Co-Sound Designer
Ben Truppin-Brown
Co-Sound Designer
Ben is a Brooklyn-based sound designer, audio engineer, and audiovisual consultant with the acoustics and AV systems design firm Kirkegaard. His work has been heard on and Off-Broadway, at regional theaters and music venues throughout the country, and internationally. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Production Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Production Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Stereophonic, A Strange Loop, Bullets Over Broadway, Matilda, Bronx Bombers, Hands on a Hardbody. Playwrights Horizons: The Antiquities, Stereophonic, A Strange Loop, Wives, Dance Nation, Mankind, Bella, A Life, Men on Boats, Marjorie Prime, The Christians. Other Off-Broadway: The Connector, The Light, Charm, Punk Rock, The Village Bike (MCC); India Pale Ale (MTC); Red Speedo (NYTW). Regional: Cowboy Bob at The Alley, Woolly Mammoth, The 5th Avenue, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse. MFA: UC San Diego.
Gigi Buffington
Voice and Dialect Coach
Gigi Buffington
Voice and Dialect Coach
Good Night, and Good Luck; Cult of Love; Eureka Day; Romeo + Juliet; Stereophonic; The Outsiders; Mother Play; Prayer for the French Republic; Grey House; Between Riverside and Crazy; Cost of Living; The Minutes; Clyde’s; Slave Play (remount); Pass Over; Linda Visa; Straight White Men. Eight seasons at Steppenwolf. RSC. Arts Professor, NYU Tisch.
Kelsey Rainwater
Intimacy Director
Kelsey Rainwater
Intimacy Director
Broadway: Hell’s Kitchen. Recent work: Liberation; Jordans; Walden; Sally and Tom; Manahatta; White Noise; Two Trains Running; The Hot Wing King; Wish You Were Here; The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home; Choir Boy; Between Two Knees. Film: Baby Ruby. TV: “The Artist,” “The Green Veil.”
Nikya Mathis
Hair & Wig Design
Nikya Mathis
Hair & Wig Design
NIKIYA MATHIS (Hair & Wig Design) multi-hyphenate, made history as the first wig designer honored with a Tony Award for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. As an actress, she has recurred on TV shows including “Snowfall & Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” Select Broadway credits: Purpose, Home, Once Upon a One More Time, Topdog/Underdog, and The Heart of Rock and Roll. Upcoming: Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Follow @nikiyamathis @our_black_tresses