Susannah Flood received a Tony nomination this season for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play, for her work starring in Liberation on Broadway. She reprised the role she originated Off-Broadway, where she received Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards as well as a Lortel Award nomination. The play also received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Onscreen, she most recently delighted television audiences as Amy Schumer’s sister in two seasons on Hulu’s “Life & Beth”. Prior to that she was best known for playing fan-favorite Kate Littlejohn in two seasons of the Shondaland/ABC series “For the People.” In film, she can be seen in Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut “The Chronology of Water”. Most recently she shot a major recurring role in the Netflix limited series “Rabbit Rabbit” opposite Adam Driver and Regina Hall.
A fixture of the New York theatre scene, Susannah received an Obie Award as part of the cast of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ The Comeuppance at Signature Theatre. Other credits include David Cromer’s production of The Counter at Roundabout, the Broadway productions of Birthday Candles opposite Debra Messing and The Cherry Orchard, Staff Meal (Playwright’s Horizons), Make Believe (Second Stage), Will Arbery's Plano (Clubbed Thumb), The Effect, Tribes (Barrow Street), Ivo Von Hove's Scenes From A Marriage, Love & Information (NYTW) and Mr. Burns (Playwrights Horizons). She will next return to the stage in a limited run starring in Marin Ireland’s critically-acclaimed Pre-Existing Condition Off-Broadway.
In this episode, we talk about:
• Susannah’s first role in the entertainment industry
• Replacing an actor in Tribes at Barrow Street Theatre
• Making the leap from Off Broadway to Broadway in The Cherry Orchard
• Booking her first television role on Chicago Fire and having Casting Director Jonathan Strauss in the audience of her show
• Becoming a series regular on Shonda Rhimes' For the People on ABC
• Working with playwright Bess Wohl on Make Believe and Liberation
• Connecting with an audience every night on Broadway
• Approaching a role shared with other incredible actors like Lupita N'yongo, Edie Falco, Phillipa Soo, Hari Nef, and Whitney White in Pre-Existing Condition
• How Susannah approaches a new character and script
• Finding your strengths and instincts as an actor
• Her upcoming Netflix project Rabbit, Rabbit
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