You Oughta Know...

The actress-musician, 35, wrote the hit Broadway musical Suffs, about women's fight to vote. It's nominated for six Tonys

- LIZZIE HYMAN

She admits she didn’t know much about the suffrage movement.

The idea was brought to me by Rachel Sussman—one of our lead producers— and when she asked me what I knew about American women’s suffrage, I realized I knew nothing. She gave me some books, and the more I read, the more I realized how much I identified with the suffragists—a group of driven, hardworking, type A, organized, stubborn young women.

She’s a proud small-town musical theater kid.