Cast and Creative

Cast Creative

Jenny Ashman

President Woodrow Wilson

was most recently seen in the national tour of Come From Away. Regional/Off-Bway: Ever After (Alliance Theatre), Dave (Arena Stage), Evita (Kansas City Rep, Opera North), Disney's The Little Mermaid (Hollywood Bowl), Sleep No More, Sweeney Todd (Ovation Award Nomination). Originally from Alaska, Jenny is a graduate of UCF Conservatory Theatre. For Alan, the Edith to my Woodrow. jennyashman.com @alaskanjz

Abigail Aziz

Offstage Principal Cover, u/s Ida B. Wells, Dudley Malone, Mary Church Terrell, Phyllis Terrell/Robin

is excited to be a part of telling this story. She has just received her BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan. She wants to thank her parents, MSA, Umich, and The Mine for getting her here today!

Anna Bakun

Ensemble, u/s Mollie Hay, Ruza Wenclawska

is a proud queer and mixed AAPI artist. CMU Drama alum. Credits: The Queen of Versailles (Emerson Colonial Theatre); The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (The City Theatre); Gloria & Titanic The Musical (CMU). For Mom, Dad, and Andy. @annabakun

Ariana Burks

Offstage Principal Cover, u/s Ida B. Wells, Dudley Malone, Mary Church Terrell, Phyllis Terrell/Robin

Broadway: Real Women Have Curves (Original Broadway Cast). Regional: In The Heights (The Muny), and other productions around Chicagoland! TV/Film: Beats (Netflix), Neon Galaxy (Disney) Thank you God, family & StewCrew! @arianaburks

Tami Dahbura

Mollie Hay, u/s Alva Belmont/Phoebe Burn

First National Tours: Kinky Boots, Memphis, In the Heights. National/International Tour: A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway: Manuel vs. The Statue of Liberty, The Pajama Game. Other favorites: Half Time - Paper Mill Playhouse, Heartland - Theatreworks, Three Musketeers - AMTSJ. Soloist: Hawaii, Maryland, Oakland & Sacramento Symphony. Graduate - Mount Holyoke College. Puppy Raiser - The Seeing Eye - New Jersey. Thanks: my parents, my team: The Hybrid Agency. IG: tamisings

Danyel Fulton

Ida B. Wells

Danyel Fulton is a Brooklyn-born and bred storyteller. Favorite Credits: Ruby, (Broadbend, Arkansas, Transport Group), Dorothy (The Wiz, The Muny), Shayla, (Watch Night, The PAC), Actor 3, (Plays for the Plague Year, The Public), Ruby (We Shall Someday, ASF), Dionne, (Hair, 2nd National Tour), Aisha (A Time to Love, NBT), Sarah (Ragtime,The 5th, Asolo Rep, and TUTS). www.danyelfulton.com 1 Cor 13:13

Annalese Fusaro

Swing, u/s Inez Milholland, Lucy Burns

is honored to be a Suff in her National Tour debut! Regional: Waitress (NSMT); Crazy For You, Frozen, 9 to 5, Matilda (MTWichita). Proud recent CCM grad! Love and gratitude to my parents, family, friends, and teachers for everything. @annalesefusaro

Marya Grandy

Carrie Chapman Catt

BROADWAY/NEW YORK/TOUR: Into the Woods (2023 B'way Revival); Closer Than Ever, Les Misérables, Damn Yankees, Bells Are Ringing, The Great American Trailer Park Musical. REGIONAL: Too many to mention. ORIGINAL WORK: Baby Yoda: A Love Story. TV/FILM: "Chicago Fire", "Chicago P.D.", "Rescue Me", "Conviction", "Law & Order", "Law & Order: SVU".B.A.: Yale University. For Hugh and Gavin. www.maryagrandy.com."

Marissa Hecker

Ensemble, u/s President Woodrow Wilson, Ruza Wenclawska, Mollie Hay

is ecstatic to be a Suff! Off-Broadway: The Office. National Tour: Spamilton. Regional: Forestburgh, Fireside, Weston. She produces original parodies on her YouTube, "Broadway Busts". CCM MT. Thank you to Rachel. Love to her family, Carey, Thomas. For Max. @marissa.hecker

Trisha Jeffrey

Mary Church Terrell

Broadway OBC: Little Shop of Horrors, All Shook Up; Rent, Motown. National / International Tours: Rent, Sister Act, Motown. Regional: Three Mothers (Fannie Lee Chaney), The Watsons Go To Birmingham, Cinderella, Beautiful, Jekyll & Hyde. Film/TV: Things Like This, Dear Edward. BroadwayWorld / Black Excellence Awards + Jeff Nomination The Color Purple (Celie). Helen Hayes Nomination Caroline, Or Change (Emmie). www.trishajeffrey.com. @trishajeffrey

Maya Keleher

Alice Paul

is honored to lend her voice to this story of women finding theirs. Past roles include Natalie in Next to Normal (TheaterWorks Hartford) and Jennifer Rumson in Paint Your Wagon (The Muny). Thanks to her husband Alex, Justin Picca at Lakey Wolff & Co, BroadwayVox, her dog Betty and her incredible friends & family. Proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory. Enjoy the ride.

Amanda Lopez

Swing, Dance Captain, u/s Inez Milholland, u/s Doris Stevens, u/s Dudley Malone

National tour debut! Broadway: Real Women Have Curves. Off-Broadway/Favorites: The Marvelous Wonderettes, Beetlejuice: The Musical (Miss Argentina, NCL Inaugural Cast), In The Heights (Nina), On Your Feet. Love to Mom, Tada, Javi, ATB + this legendary Suffs team. @amandaklopez

Livvy Marcus

Doris Stevens

1st national tour debut. Recent credits include Rideand Life After(Old Globe), the Griswold's Broadway Vacation(5th Ave), Spells of the Sea (Kennedy Center). Debut album "Livvy Marcus Eats Her Shoe" out now. Thanks HCKR! Thanks to all the public libraries! Big hugs to Addy and Charlie. Follow me @livvymarcus or livvymarcus.com.

Merrill Peiffer

Swing, u/s Carrie Chapman Catt, President Woodrow Wilson, Alva Belmont/ Phoebe Burn

is truly excited to be part of this show, Women's history is for everyone, y'all! Past Bway tour credits: Mamma Mia! Regional: Over 50 shows all across USA. Endless gratitude to the amazing casting and creative team and for her loved ones! @merrilllove

Victoria Pekel

Phyllis Terrell/Robin

is a 2025 Yale graduate who majored in Political Science and Theater. Select Yale credits: Lady in Blue (for colored girls Opera), Elle (Legally Blonde), Ophelia (Hamlet). Regional: Ariel (Footloose, Arkansas Rep). She is incredibly grateful to the Suffs team as she makes her national tour debut! Victoria dedicates this to the memory of her mother, Tanya---a proud Delta.

Brandi Porter

Dudley Malone

Broadway: Purlie Victorious (Lutibelle u/s), Clyde's (Letitia u/s), A Bronx Tale (Swing. Jane u/s). 1st Nat'l Tour: A Bronx Tale (Freida. Jane u/s). Off Broadway: Trevor: A New Musical. Regional: Intimate Apparel (Esther) Arden Theatre Company, Ain't No Mo' (Passenger 4) Woolly Mammoth/BCS *Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor. Endless gratitude to my husband, family, friends, Saks& and CESD. IG:@thebrandiporter

Monica Tulia Ramirez

Inez Milholland

Proud daughter of an immigrant father, Monica is honored to return to Suffs — now in the role she covered on Broadway and at the Public Theater. Broadway: Real Women Have Curves, Suffs. TV: Elementary, Madam Secretary, Evil, Uncoupled. Favorite regional: Evita (Eva), Footloose (Rusty), Working (Woman 1). Love to my family and partner, Logan. Pase lo que pase. @monicatuliaramirez

Jenna Lea Rosen

Ensemble, u/s Alice Paul, u/s Doris Stevens

Broadway national tour debut! Regional: TUTS (Elsa, Frozen), MSMT (Fanny Brice, Funny Girl), Sacramento Music Circus (Wednesday, Addams Family), Goodspeed (Prissy, Anne u/s, Anne of Green Gables). Voice of over thirty animated characters for Disney and HBO. For Grandma.

@jennalearosen

Gretchen Shope

Ensemble, u/s Alice Paul, u/s Lucy Burns

National Tour Debut! Winner of the 2024 Jimmy Awards. Gretchen thanks her agency Nicolosi & Co. for their guidance and support. She also thanks her family (and honorary family) for loving her unconditionally. Get out and vote! @gretchen_shope

Laura Stracko

Alva Belmont/Phoebe Burn, u/s Carrie Chapman Catt

Broadway: Diana, Film/TV: Blue Bloods, Diana (Netflix), Tour: Damn Yankees, Ship: Cats (RCCL), Regional favorites: Come From Away (Ogunquit, Theatre Aspen), Gypsy (Aspen). Love to my family & Maurice, thank you to Todd/ATB, Rachel, and this beautiful team. Keep marching! @thisisLauraStracko

Gwynne Wood

Lucy Burns

(They/She) is a queer theater artist based in NYC. BROADWAY: 1776. FIRST NATIONAL TOURS: 1776, Oklahoma! (2019 Revival). WEST END: Oscar at the Crown. SELECT: The Public Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Olney Theatre Center, and Pipeline Theatre. Thanks to my family, my partner Anna, the team at DGRW, and everyone at SUFFS & Telsey for this opportunity. @gwynnelaurel

Joyce Meimei Zheng

Ruza Wenclawska

My first National Tour! I can't believe I get to be here. Recently: The Importance of Being Earnest (Shakespeare NJ), Twelfth Night (TheatreSquared), The Far Country (Yale Rep), DOOMERS (BCTR), A Christmas Carol (ASF), Macbeth (Double Feature Plays). Rutgers MGSA. Thank you HCKR. A BIG I love you to my family and friends. @irokpink. Child of God. Jesus adores you.

Shaina Taub

Book, Music & Lyrics

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),

Leigh Silverman

Director

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

Mayte Natalio

Choreographer

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_

Andrea Grody

Music Supervisor

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.

Christine Peters

Scenic Design

Riccardo Hernandez

Original Broadway Scenic Design

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

Paul Tazewell

Costume Design

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.

Lap Chi Chu

Lighting Design

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/

Jason Crystal

Sound Design

Broadway design debut! 15+ Broadway associate credits, including Hamilton (worldwide), Sweeney Todd (2023), Tina, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Addams Family. Sound Designer for: The Public Theater, Carnegie Hall, Second Stage Theater, The Old Globe, others. TV/streaming: The Tony Awards, Annie: Live!, Times Square New Year’s Eve, the Democratic National Convention (2020). System Engineer and Broadcast Mixer for the Metropolitan Opera. Grateful for Bethany; proud Dad to his girls.

Charles G. Lapointe

Hair and Wig Design

Award-winning designer who maintains a highly successful career on stages throughout the U.S. and abroad. Numerous Broadway, Touring, Regional Theatre, International productions including: Hamilton (Make-Up Artists/ Hair Stylist Guild Award); MJ; The Wiz; Tommy; Beetlejuice; The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award); SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award). Television: Emmy Nominations for The Wiz Live! and Jesus Christ Superstar Live!

Joe Dulude II

Makeup Design

Broadway/West End: Wicked, Beautiful, MJ the Musical. Broadway: KPOP The Musical, Beetlejuice, Torch Song, SpongeBob SquarePants, Summer, Sunday in the Park With George, Anastasia, Allegiance, If/Then, Follies, etc. Off-Broadway: Fly, Sweet Charity, Into the Woods, The Wild Party, Show Boat. Television: “Annie Live,” “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” (Emmy nomination), “The Gilded Age,” “Julia,” “Castle Rock” Season 2. Film: The Holdovers, Hocus Pocus 2, Don’t Look Up, About Fate, Godmothered, The Discovery, Ghostbusters. www.joedulude2.com IG: dulude2.

Michael Starobin

Orchestrations

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.

Shaina Taub & Andrea Grody

Vocal Arrangements

Shaina Taub, Andrea Grody & Michael Starobin

Incidental Music Arrangements

Lori Elizabeth Parquet

Associate Director

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.

The Telsey Office: Rachel Hoffman, CSA

Casting

Stacy N. Taylor

Production Stage Manager

has been working/traveling the US and Internationally for over 15 years. Favorite shows (all because of the people I got to work with) include Spring Awakening, Dear Evan Hansen, A Beautiful Noise, and Jersey Boys. Much thanks and love to my family for always supporting me.

Maya Bhatnagar

Stage Manager

Tour: Kimberly Akimbo, The MJ Musical. Broadway: Almost Famous, Dancin', Prima Facie. Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along(NYTW). Graduate of Shenandoah University. Proud AEA member. Love & thanks to family, friends, mentors & educators- especially the strong women in my life who inspire me every day.

Megan Ciszek

Assistant Stage Manager

[she/they] Broadway/Off-Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Revolution, Sleep No More, The Who's Tommy, Mrs. Doubtfire. National Tours: The WIZ, COMPANY, SIX, CATS (1st National). To my chosen family, my teachers, and all the witches and women who have mentored me -- thank you. To Lucy -- I'm deeply in love with you. To all of us - There's so much to do.