Jennifer Nettles on New Musical, ‘Giulia’ and Lin-Manuel Miranda

A decade ago, Jennifer Nettles was casually scrolling online when she came across an article about female serial killers. She fell down a rabbit hole and discovered the story of Giulia Tofana, who, according to somewhat fuzzy history, allegedly poisoned her abusive husband in the 17th century in Sicily, and then went on supply potentially hundreds of women with her arsenic concoction to kill their badly behaving spouses.  

“There wasn’t a ton about her online, like maybe two or three articles,” the Grammy and Emmy winner says, “It was known that she was a real person, but certain parts of her life and her…