Cast

Broadway credits include Funny Girl, Is This A Room/Dana H., Head Over Heels, Burn This, Latin History for Morons, Hedwig and The Angry Inch. She has stage managed productions with Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Mabou Mines, Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Shanghai Disney Resort.

Broadway: Good Night Oscar, Ain’t No Mo’, Cost of Living, Girl from the North Country, Prince of Broadway, Speed-the-Plow, Losing Louie. Off Broadway: Audible, Shed, BAM, Public, Signature, 2ST, Playwrights, MTC, Roundabout, MCC, Atlantic.  Regional: CTG, ACT, Huntington, Williamstown, Long Wharf, DTC. Graduate of Boston University. Love to Cody. 

Shaina is an Obie Award-winning songwriter/performer and an Artist-in-Residence at the Public Theater, where Suffs first premiered. Broadway debut! She created and performed in musical adaptations of Twelfth Night and As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park with the Public Works community that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. Taub has won a Jonathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, and Fred Ebb Award. She performed Off-Broadway in Hadestown, Great Comet (Lortel nom), Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s Old Hats, which featured her songs, and played Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis Island concert. She wrote the lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, with music by Sir Elton John, opening in the West End this year. Her three solo albums include Songs of the Great Hill on Atlantic Records. Television songwriting: “Sesame Street,” “Central Park,” “Julie’s Greenroom” starring Julie Andrews, and the Emmy-nominated opening number for the 2018 Tony Awards, co-written with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. She co-chairs the NYCLU’s Artist Ambassadors and received the organization’s Michael Friedman Freedom Award for activism. Love to Matt and Mom. For every loud little girl. shainataub.com.

Broadway: Yellow Face (upcoming); Grand Horizons; The Lifespan of a Fact; Violet (Tony nom), Chinglish; Well. Recent: Harry Clarke (West End, BRT, Vineyard/Audible); Suffs (Public); Merry Me (NYTW); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Shed, CTG); Soft Power (CTG/Curran, Public); Hurricane Diane (NYTW). Encores: Violet; The Wild Party; Sutton Foster’s streaming concert, Bring Me To Light. Audible: Yellow Face; Harry Clarke; Dykes to Watch Out For. 2011 Obie Award; 2019 Obie for Sustained Excellence. 

Broadway: How to Dance in Ohio, for colored girls… (Associate Choreographer).  Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure (The Public Theater/ Mobile Unit). Favorite regional choreography credits: The Winter’s Tale (DTC/ Public Works), Into The Woods (Barrington Stage), Love in Hate Nation (Two River Theater), Hair (The Old Globe), Kiss My Aztec (Hartford Stage). Most recent performance: Rosie Perez in Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical (American Conservatory Theater).  I dedicate my work on Suffs to the fiercest woman I know, my mother, Teresa. 

Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Tootsie. Select Off-Broadway/Regional: Suffs, Public Works’ As You Like It and The Tempest, The Great Immensity, Fortress of Solitude (all Public Theater), The Band’s Visit (Atlantic), Assassins (Yale Rep), Unknown Soldier (Williamstown), Robin Hood as Composer/MD (Williamstown). As writer/composer: Strange Faces. Olivier Award nominee for The Band’s Visit. Associate Director at New York Vocal Coaching. Creator of WordWaves (singwordwaves.com). B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Recent: Florencia en el Amazonas (Metropolitan Opera); Carmen (Glyndebourne Festival) Jagged Little Pill; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Indecent; The Thanksgiving Play; Porgy and Bess; Lempicka. Théâtre de l’Odéon Paris, Festival Automne, La Colline-Theatre National Paris, Cour D’Honneur, Avignon Festival, Teatro Real Madrid, Moscow Art Theater, Theater an der Wien, Estates Theater Prague, Oslo National Theater, Young Vic. Obie for Sustained Excellence of Scenic Design, Henry Hewes Design Award, Princess Grace Statue Award. Co- Chair and Associate Professor at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. (riccardohernandez.com)

Broadway: Hamilton, MJ, Ain’t Too Proud, Summer, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Memphis, Caroline, or Change, Side Show, A Streetcar Named Desire, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Raisin in the Sun, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk. Film: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2022 Academy Award nomination), Harriet, Wicked (release November 2024). 2016 received Tony Award for Hamilton, and Emmy Award for The Wiz! Live, NBC.

Broadway: Camelot (Tony Nomination).  Recent works:  Poor Yella Rednecks at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Coast Starlight at Lincoln Center Theater.  Off-Broadway: Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Signature Theatre, Roundabout.  Regional; Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, among others.  Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Lucille Lortel Award, Ovation Award. lapchichu.com

A New Brain, Adrift in Macao, Annie, Assassins, Bernarda Alba, Dogfight, Falsettos, First Daughter Suite, Flying Over Sunset, Freaky Friday, Gardens of Anuncia,  Glorious Ones, Grinch, Hello Again, Hunchback of Notre Dame, If/Then, In Trousers, Kid Victory, Leap of Faith, Little Miss Sunshine, My Favorite Year, Next to Normal, Once on This Island, People in the Picture, Queen of the Mist, Renascence, Sondheim on Sondheim, Spelling Bee, Sunday in the Park with George, Tom Sawyer.

Lori is an actor, director, and writer from New Orleans, LA.  She is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut with Suffs.  Off-Broadway Directing Credits: Suffs, The Tempest, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Promenade.  Off-Off-Broadway: White on White. Awards: NYIT Outstanding Leading Actress.  Thank you Mama and Daddy.

Rebecca is extremely proud to be part of this special show! Broadway Tours: Wicked; In The Heights; Jesus Christ Superstar. Director: Cabaret (San Antonio Broadway Theatre). Choreographer: In The Heights (Broadway Palm Theatre). Associate: In The Heights (TUTS, Olney); Sweet Charity (Maltz Jupiter). SDCF 2024 Mike Ockrent Fellow. Special thanks to Leigh and Mayte. Forever for my #1 fan, Ma.

Heidi and Kate have been collaborating for over a decade at the Public Theater in New York where they cast Shakespeare, new plays, and musicals. Broadway collaborations include: Hell’s Kitchen, For Colored Girls…, The Crucible, A View From The Bridge, A Delicate Balance, A Raisin In The Sun. 

Over 100 Broadway productions and tours. Recent: The Notebook; Days of Wine and Roses; Purlie Victorious; Once Upon a One More Time; New York, New York; Sweeney Todd; A Doll’s House; Hadestown; Hamilton; Aladdin. HTA is a member of Neil A. Mazzella’s Hudson family which includes Hudson Scenic Studios, Brianne Tabak, Brianna Stankiewicz, Sam Ellis, Sean Gorski, Bridget Van Dyke, and Irene Wang.

Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey M. Wilson founded their company in 1994. General Managers include Jeff Klein, Chris Morey, and Ron Gubin, and Associate General Managers include Susie Brant and Christopher Taggart. Current Broadway: CABARET with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin; An Enemy of the People with Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli; and the upcoming Sunset Boulevard with Nicole Scherzinger.

Broadway credits include Funny Girl, Is This A Room/Dana H., Head Over Heels, Burn This, Latin History for Morons, Hedwig and The Angry Inch. She has stage managed productions with Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, Mabou Mines, Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Shanghai Disney Resort.

Broadway: Hamilton (Tony Award), In the Heights (Tony Award), Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Heiress, Seminar, West Side Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sly Fox, and Fortune’s Fool. TV and Film: EP of Hamilton for Disney+ (Emmy Award) and In the Heights, and producer of Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Supreme. In 2011, she received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. She is on the Brown University Board of Trustees, the President’s Advisory Council for the Arts at Brown, and the Board of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation.

Rachel is a Tony Award-winning producer and educator committed to elevating human stories that challenge existing systems and create space for inquiry, empathy, and action. Co-founder of The Business of Broadway and The MITTEN Lab. Broadway: Just for Us, Parade (Tony Award), Prima Facie, What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom, Pulitzer finalist). Select Off-Broadway: The Woodsman (Obie Award), The Appointment. Recipient of the 2018-2019 Prince Fellowship in association with Columbia University and one of Variety’s “10 to Watch on Broadway.” Proud NYU Tisch grad. Love to her family and Emma. This one’s for all the warrior queens and loud little girls like me. rachel-sussman.com.

Attorney, Advocate, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, trailblazing, popular-vote winning-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes her Broadway debut with Suffs. An author, professor, podcaster, and founder of HiddenLight Productions, she is the recipient of a Grammy Award and an Emmy Award, and a proud mother and grandmother. For the generations to follow, let’s keep marching! 

A girls’ education activist, best-selling author, President of Extracurricular Productions and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She served as executive producer for the Indie Spirit Award-winning film Joyland and Oscar-nominated documentary short Stranger at the Gate. She is thrilled to be making her Broadway-producing debut with Suffs.