A Bermudian actress said she was honoured to be involved in a Broadway production co-produced by former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Nobel Prize-winning activist Malalah Yousafzai.

Tsilala Brock will take part in Suffs, a musical retelling of the women’s suffragette movement in the US, led by an all-female cast.

“Going to Broadway is crazy,” Ms Brock said. “Now that the dream has happened and I’m here, I’m remembering it’s a lot of work. I’ve been busy.”

Ms Brock will play Dudley Field Malone, a real-life figure and the Assistant Secretary of State to US president Woodrow Wilson in 1917.

Mr Malone publicly resigned from office to persuade Mr Wilson to shift his stance on women's suffrage and later represented the suffragettes in court.

Ms Brock said that she felt it was important to get another perspective of the suffragette movement from Mr Malone.

She explained: “One of the things that we all know from the suffragette’s movement is that it was really laser-focused in one direction — to get the right to vote, no matter who got left behind.

“To be an ally, as Dudley was, and to sacrifice a bit of his own comfort to fight for the betterment of more than just him in this world is something that, I think, is a huge question that everyone need to be asking right now.”

She added that the play would give people the opportunity to “see yourself within history”.

Ms Brock said: “These stories, the history of what these women did, the complications, and even what they might have messed up on, they were the first in history.

“You can see that you can make history, even if your story doesn’t get told until 100 years later.”

Ms Brock said that she first auditioned for the play in 2021, which involved submitting a videotaped script reading in adherence with Covid-19 safety guidelines.

Her first in-person audition took place later that summer, where she performed in the brand-new Public Theatre of Manhattan.

Ms Brock said: “I was excited to just be there finally and not recording on a screen.”

The play was performed first in the Public Theatre as an off-Broadway performance before being reproduced and showcased on Broadway.

Ms Brock said the performance was a “trial period” that gave the Broadway cast — many of whom performed in the initial release — a chance to shift their performances.

Rehearsals will start on February 12 and go on every day but Sunday from 10am to 6pm. They will continue for about a month-and-a-half before “tech week” starts, when the cast will work 12-hour days before several days of audience rehearsals.

Ms Brock said that this, combined with promotion and practice, was strenuous work.

She added: “I don’t know if I’m doing the best job of keeping track of my health, but I do try to say to myself, ‘OK, we have to do something physical with our heart rate or our singing’.”

Ms Brock, who left the island at the age of 15, studied at Bermuda’s United Dance Productions and was in Troika productions including Beauty and the Beast and The Colour Purple’s second run.

Her theatre credits also include a US national tour of The Book of Mormon.

Suffs will open at the Music Box Theatre in New York on April 18.