Motherhood and Broadway: HAMILTON Star Shares How She Did It All

Published: October 10, 2025

By Mallory Mattingly

Hollywood doesn’t often celebrate motherhood, but the new documentary SATISFIED does just that, looking at how actress Renée Elise Goldsberry’s balanced being a mom with a booming Broadway career.

“Renée Elise Goldsberry…[is] not just a wonderful actress but a mother and an incredible human being, and it’s exciting to have a woman’s story to tell right now — to tell the story about her quest for motherhood and her journey, her triumphs and her challenges,” director Melissa Haizlip told Movieguide® in an interview. “These are all really important topics right now, especially in the zeitgeist for women’s rights and such, and so it’s very empowering, I think, to be able to tell the story of HAMILTON but to put a woman’s story in the front of that.”

SATISFIED follows Goldsberry, a HAMILTON star and Tony winner, as she “battles exhaustion, expectations, and the everyday chaos of motherhood.”

“I had two big dreams when I was little: to be a mother and to have a career as a singer and an actor,” Goldsberry says in the trailer.

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“This revealing documentary pulls back the curtain on her pivotal role in the Broadway revolution – and the personal cost of making history,” the synopsis reads.

Co-director Chris Bolan explained that SATISFIED focuses on 2014-2016, when HAMILTON’s fame was skyrocketing.

“Man, you know, I can say one thing. We had the tent poles of the story because we really focused it on the 2014–2016 part of Renée’s life, which was not only her giving birth to this thing called HAMILTON that changed the theatrical landscape forever, but it was also the time where she was trying to raise a family, have children, and she was going through the adoption process. It was a very raw period of her life,” Bolan said.

“But I will say that when we started filming in 2020, we didn’t know — [HAMILTON] didn’t get the theatrical release it was supposed to,” he continued. “It came out on Disney+, but we didn’t know how big it was going to be. Was it going to win an Academy Award? How big of stars were they all going to become? How fast would that happen? All of those things we were wondering about, which could have taken the film into different places.”

“Now, they are all incredibly successful, and let’s be honest, HAMILTON has done exceedingly well,” Bolan added. “But it didn’t win the Academy Award or the Golden Globe. There were things that didn’t happen that reaffirmed to us that the story itself was always about Renée anyway. She’s got this great thing that she was a part of, but the real story is her journey through the making of that thing.”

SATISFIED had a theatrical release from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2.

Goldsberry shared a trailer of the documentary on her social media and wrote, “MY DOCUMENTARY is coming to a theater near YOU! 🤗😆🙌🏾 From stage to the big screen, watch the story unfold in #SatisfiedMovie.”