Liberation's Susannah Flood was born into a family of acting teachers. Of course she's on Broadway.

This episode’s guest is Susannah Flood, from the play “Liberation” — one of the best-reviewed Broadway shows of 2025 (you can read Elisabeth’s glowing take for The New York Times here).

The show mostly takes place during meetings of a feminist consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio. Susannah takes on two roles: Lizzie, who founded the group, and Lizzie’s daughter, who’s narrating the story. She talked to us about getting into theater, working with the playwright Bess Wohl and the director Whitney White (check her out on the pod here!), and what doing this specific play has meant to her.

Of course we also talked about other shows on Susannah’s C.V., like Anne Washburn’s now-iconic “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.”

But wait, there’s more: Susannah plays the lead character’s mother in Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, “The Chronology of Water,” and talked about that project as well. Don’t say we don’t spoil you!