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Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway

The show will officially open on October 28, 2025 on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

By: Oct. 08, 2025
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Following its award-winning world premiere earlier this year, Liberation, a new play by Tony Award nominee Bess Wohl, and directed by Tony Award nominee Whitney White, is now playing on Broadway. The show will officially open on October 28, 2025 on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Meet the cast below!

The production stars Tony Award nominee Betsy Aidem as Margie, Audrey Corsa as Dora, Kayla Davion as Joanne, Susannah Flood as Lizzie, Kristolyn Lloyd as Celeste, Irene Sofia Lucio as Isidora, Charlie Thurston as Bill, and Adina Verson as Susan. Understudies are Leeanne Hutchison, Matt E. Russell, and Kedren Spencer.
 
Liberation is a funny, time-bending, and deeply moving new play that brings to life a group of women in 1970s Ohio who gather in the basement of the local Y for a weekly consciousness-raising group—as they find their place in a new wave of feminism taking hold around them. While their candid conversations unfold with humor, heart, and vulnerability, the play explores how everyday moments spark lasting change. Interwoven with a present-day narrator discovering her mother’s radical past before marriage and motherhood, Liberation becomes a heartfelt exploration of memory, identity, and the enduring power of women speaking their truths.

Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageBetsy 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageAudrey Corsa - Dora

Audrey Corsa 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageKayla 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!”


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageSusannah 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageKristolyn Lloyd - Celeste

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).


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageIrene 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageCharlie Thurston - Bill

Charlie Thurston 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageAdina 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageLeeanne Hutchison - u/s Isidora, u/s 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.”


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageMatt E. Russell - u/s Bill

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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageKedren Spencer - u/s Celeste, u/s 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.


Meet the Cast of LIBERATION, Now Playing on Broadway  ImageBritt Faulkner - us/ Lizzie, u/s Dora, u/s Susan

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.




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