Berkeley Rep: Here There Are Blueberries

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BLUEBERRIES

BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN AND AMANDA GRONICH

CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN

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Welcome to Here There Are Blueberries.

Moisés Kaufman, Amanda Gronich, and Tectonic Theater (together and separately!) have significant history at Berkeley Rep, and I’m proud to welcome them back with this hugely important and vibrantly theatrical story.

Tectonic has always turned the notion of documentary theatre on its head, and in fact, prefer to refer to their work as investigative theatre. This distinction feels particularly important with this play, as a mystery needs to be solved of this album that has arrived on the desk of a curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In some ways, Here There are Blueberries functions as a detective story, but with an archivist as the protagonist. On the face of it, perhaps not the stuff of gripping drama, but such is the magic of Tectonic’s theatre-making!

Tectonic has always made evident the active task of storytelling, placing it at the center of the plays. At a time in which journalists in our country and elsewhere are facing attacks on the integrity of their process, I feel very fortunate to be sharing a play with our community that celebrates the rigorous investigation of the truth. Here There Are Blueberries invites each of us to contemplate the continuum of complacency/complicity/ culpability (as Moisés has described it), and the need to wrestle with the fact that at different moments throughout history, we have each taken our place somewhere along that spectrum when faced with society’s greatest challenges. I hope that spending time immersed in this theatrical event gives us the courage to give voice to the stories of those who may not be able to tell their own, and to fight for truth, together.

Thank you for sharing in this with us.

Warmly,

At its most powerful, theatre does not merely present a story .— it demands that we reckon with it.

Here There Are Blueberries is one such work: a haunting, deeply human exploration of complicity and conscience, of the unsettling ease with which ordinary people can become enmeshed in history’s darkest chapters.

When a mysterious album of photographs arrives at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it sets off an astonishing investigation into the lives of Nazi officers and staff at Auschwitz — people who, in one moment, are complicit in unspeakable atrocities and, in the next, are eating blueberries, laughing in the sun. Created by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich of Tectonic Theater Project, this searing work of theatre forces us to confront the banality of evil and the moral responsibility of bearing witness. In presenting Here There Are Blueberries, Berkeley Rep continues its commitment to theatre that challenges, provokes, and deepens our understanding of the world and of humanity.

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Social Justice Through Storytelling

IN DIALOGUE AND EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT

BY REBS CHAN, IN DIALOGUE COORDINATOR

(Right, top to bottom): The first ASV x In Dialogue storytelling workshop; Diego rehearsing his piece, “Becoming Estrella;” In Dialogue staff, School of Theatre teaching artists, the ASV team, and workshop participants at a storytelling workshop; Marta rehearsing her piece, “Esto es de donde soy,” with School of Theatre teaching artists and the ASV team.

Launched in Berkeley Rep’s 2021/22 season, In Dialogue is a programmatic initiative that places the capacity of our theatre-making skills and resources in service of the community, partnering with local social justice organizations such as Afro Urban Society, La Peña Cultural Center, and Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.

One of In Dialogue’s deepest partnerships is with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant (EBSC), a non-profit that provides legal services, community organizing, and transformative education to support low-income immigrants and people fleeing violence and persecution.

In Dialogue and EBSC first partnered on Berkeley Rep’s 2022 production of Sanctuary City. During the rehearsal process, EBSC spoke with the production’s actors and director, helping them understand the realities and legal questions that undocumented immigrants face. During performances, the Peet’s Theatre lobby featured the “Amplifying Sanctuary Voices” exhibit — a social justice installation uplifting the humanity of immigrants, refugees, and activists through stories and artwork from the EBSC community.

Pictured (top left): Performers, Berkeley Rep staff, and the Amplifying Sanctuary Voices team after the ASV performance at Berkeley Rep.

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Then, following several smaller-scale engagements, Berkeley Rep reconnected with EBSC and the since-expanded Amplifying Sanctuary Voices (ASV) program — now a storytelling project centering the narratives of low-income immigrants and asylum seekers — and we embarked on our most expansive collaboration yet.

Beginning in August 2023, about fifteen immigrant storytellers worked with In Dialogue and Berkeley Rep’s School of Theatre to create original solo performances through a workshop series. The workshops used theatrical exercises to build the participants’ confidence, bravery, and vulnerability, creating a space where they felt empowered to bring their full selves.

In June 2024, four of the workshop participants — Crecencio, Marta, Irma, and Diego — performed their original pieces at the School of Theatre’s Bakery for an invited audience. Their performances used a combination of English, Spanish, and the Indigenous Mayan Mam language to explore Indigeneity, gender, sexuality, and more.

Speaking on the workshop and performance process, Marta said, “ Ha sido un impacto muy grande porque la voz tiene poder. Sin la voz de nadie no podemos llegar, no podemos lograr algo que queremos. Nuestras metas o algo que queremos en la comunidad también. Yo sé que mi voz está haciendo un impacto en la comunidad Maya Mam especialmente en Oakland.”

“Because the voice has power, it has had a very big impact. Without anyone’s voice we can’t get there, we can’t achieve the things we want. Our goals or the thing we want in the community. I know that my voice is making an impact in the Maya Mam community, especially in Oakland.”

In Dialogue continues to collaborate with EBSC as we develop programming in a moment when our most powerful political officials are attacking immigrant rights and promoting hateful, xenophobic rhetoric.

“It’s been a beautiful and evolving partnership. We’ve always felt really supported by the Berkeley Rep community.” said Lisa Hoffman, Co-Executive Director and Director of Development & Communications at EBSC. “The process has been so empowering for our narrator community.”

Storytelling rooted in activism is vital to creating a safer and more equitable society for our immigrant communities. Whether we’re collaborating on a workshop series, hosting a heritage night, or facilitating a panel conversation, In Dialogue creates space for all in our local community to feel included and celebrated.

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THE ALBUM AND THE INVESTIGATION

by Drew Lichtenberg , Resident Dramaturg, Shakespeare Theatre Company

Germany, the 1920s. A revolution is happening in the theatre. It is led by director Erwin Piscator, dramaturg Bertolt Brecht, and many other collaborators, responding to a rising tide of authoritarianism. Instead of fictional characters, these theatre artists work with materials drawn from everyday life — photographs, newspapers, films.

Piscator and Brecht seek to connect the stage to the present day, to create a space for people to have a common experience of moral and political witnessing. They didn’t just want the stage to reflect reality. They wanted to move audiences, to provoke them, inspire them to change the world.

Over the last twenty-five years, no one has done more to bring the working methods of Brecht and Piscator into mainstream theatre practice than Moisés Kaufman. An acclaimed director, playwright, and filmmaker, Kaufman has led the Tectonic Theater Project since its founding in 1991. With his collaborators at Tectonic, he has created landmark works now recognized as modern classics: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1998), The Laramie Project (2000), I Am My Own Wife (2003).

led the Tectonic Theater Project since its foundGross looks at Doug

In their content, these works are inspired by real life and focus on social justice, marginalized communities, and topical issues. Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde examines queer identity and the invention of the legal category of “homosexuality.” The Laramie Project the fallout of a hate crime in small-town America — the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man. For I Am My Own Wife, playwright Doug Wright, working with Kaufman and Tectonic, conducted interviews with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German survivor of Nazi and Communist regimes who lived their life as a transgender woman.

These works, like tectonic plates, lie at the intersection of the personal and the political, the topical and the historical. They also happen to be among the most produced plays in America, at every level from professional stages to universities and even high schools. Kaufman & co. have shown that the political can also be popular.

Kaufman and Tectonic’s works also showcase the Piscator-Brecht method of composing works of powerful drama out of materials drawn from everyday life. Gross Indecency consists of trial transcripts and other writings. During Laramie Project, Kaufman and Tectonic company

trial transcripts and other writings. During The

This page and previous: a 1940s Leica 1 camera and three-post album of the sort that would have been used to capture and house Höcker’s photographs.

members interviewed members of the Laramie community. And Doug Wright interviewed von Mahlsdorf, creating a one-person play that would win the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award.

For Tectonic, the specific materials used for creating theatre shift depending on the story being told. The results offer audiences around the country a means to process the unthinkable, which also happen to be the complex realities of our world.

For Here There Are Blueberries, co-authored with Amanda Gronich, Kaufman and company’s form and content have shifted yet again. The play centers on a mysterious album of photographs that a retired army colonel donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in

Discover more about the photographs that inspired Here There Are Blueberries and download the accompanying discussion guide and lesson plans.

Washington, D.C. in 2007. The photographs, as archivist Dr. Rebecca Erbelding recognized immediately, are of the Auschwitz concentration camp. What makes the album unique is that these photos do not focus on the victims, but instead the perpetrators. It documents the Nazis, male officers and female secretaries living their ordinary, everyday lives: lighting Christmas trees, spending time with their children and pets. Just a few kilometers away, in scenes not captured on camera, scenes of horrific suffering were unfolding.

The project began when Kaufman read about the album in a newspaper story and flew to Washington to speak to Dr. Erbelding. It would grow to encompass a trip to Auschwitz with

Members of the SS Helferinnen (female auxiliaries) sit on a fence rail as Karl Höcker passes out bowls of blueberries. The original caption reads “Hier gibt es Blaubeeren” (here there are blueberries).

his co-writer Amanda Gronich, their dramaturg Amy Seidel, and the Producer of the play Matt Joslyn, as well as hundreds of hours of interviews with historians and scholars.

In 1962, Erwin Piscator — the inventor of the epic, political, documentary mode — returned to post-World War II Germany. Many former Nazis had returned to civilian life, and discussion of people’s past lives was taboo. In 1965, he directed the premiere of Peter Weiss’s landmark play, The Investigation. It was based on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, which Weiss attended, taking detailed notes, and accounts in the Frankfurter Zeitung. Though Germans had known about the Holocaust, Weiss’s play made them experience it with new eyes.

Here There Are Blueberries is strikingly similar. It, too, is inspired by newspaper accounts. It, too, asks the audience not to identify with individual Nazis, but to think in terms of a system that condemned countless others whose stories and images are not documented. As the play unfolds, we share the experience of the archivists. We are asked to see, to feel, to think, to piece together a detective story illuminating what human beings are capable of doing while living normal lives. Perhaps, after seeing the show, we will examine our own lives, or ponder our own society, in all its complexities.

TALKBACK SERIES CURATED BY FASPE

Tectonic Theater Project and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have partnered with the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE), the production’s Content & Conversation partner, to curate a series of post-show discussions with leading ethicists and scholars to discuss the complex issues raised in the play — and consider their relevance for today.

T ALKBACK DATES

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 (2pm performance)

SATURDAY, APRIL 19 (8pm performance)

SUNDAY, APRIL 20 (2pm performance)

SUNDAY, APRIL 20 (7pm performance)

TUESDAY, APRIL 22 (7pm performance)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 (7pm performance)

FASPE challenges professionals to recognize their ethical and leadership responsibilities as influencers. FASPE’s distinctive approach is to examine the roles of individual professionals in Germany and elsewhere between 1933 and 1945 as a framework for approaching professional ethics today.

Each year, FASPE awards 80 to 90 Fellowships to graduate students and early-career professionals in Business, Clergy, Design & Technology, Journalism, Law, and Medicine. The Fellowships begin with intense study in Germany and Poland where FASPE uses the urgency created by the power of place to translate history into the present.

Fellows join a lifetime network, now comprised of more than 900 alumni. Beyond its signature Fellowship program, FASPE utilizes its distinct methodology in ethics-training workshops across business sectors, and in an Ethics Abroad trip designed for practicing professionals and lifelong learners.

FASPE has been a thought-partner to the artistic team throughout the development of the play, providing access in Europe, historical context, and curated conversations between audiences, scholars, and ethicists. FASPE is proud to support Tectonic’s extraordinary artistry and the theatres who are sharing its powerful messages.

faspe-ethics.org

A nonpartisan, federal educational institution, the Museum is America’s national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust dedicated to ensuring the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance.

Through the power of Holocaust history, the Museum challenges leaders and individuals worldwide to think critically about their role in society and to confront antisemitism and other forms of hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. For more information, visit ushmm.org .

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TALKBACK SERIES:

Ostraum, The Holocaust, AND THE THOUSAND YEAR REICH

FROM THE HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES FURTHER LEARNING GUIDE

BY CHASE J. PADUSNIAK

When we look back now, the rise of Nazism seems like a forgone conclusion. In school, and even from our families for some, we hear about the quick rise and begrudging fall of Adolf Hitler and his genocidal movement, the undeniable bravery it took to defeat a hatefilled party imbued with historical necessity. But this is only true in retrospect. In reality, the rise of Nazism was a process filled with setbacks, serendipities, and unexpected turns. When we view the Third Reich as a foregone conclusion, one that required no apathy or complicity from everyday people, we misread, fall into Sontag’s false reality trap, as if the image were the thing, and as if lives and memories were static rather than dynamic.

In 1923, Adolf Hitler first attempted to take power by leading a putsch and a halfcocked rush to Berlin, modeled on Benito Mussolini’s famous March on Rome. It failed. While incarcerated, he finished writing his autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf, a work rife with the hate that would later characterize the regime. Hitler’s popularity among locals in Munich, including with the judge at his two trials, Georg Neithardt, led to few consequences despite this violent attempt to seize power. He began to believe that the democratic path, coupled with the tacit and explicit support of prominent professionals and leaders, would prove a better way. He was right. From the late 1920s onward, regular elections produced unstable

governing coalitions. At the same time, Hitler’s party exploited this instability and continued its rise, tailoring its approach to individual voting blocs, including farmers suffering from falling prices and inflation, anticommunists, antisemites, and nationalists disturbed by defeat in World War I. In 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler, head of the largest party in parliament, chancellor. A career soldier and statesman, Hindenburg thought he could control the new leader. He was wrong.

Four weeks later, the Reichstag or parliament building burned. A young Dutch communist was blamed, though Hitler may have secretly ordered the arson. The shock to the nation allowed the Nazis to push for the suspension of most civil liberties. What we now think of as the Nazizeit, or Nazi Period, had begun. German professionals, by and large, submitted to the new project.

Acquiescence meant that a consolidation of power followed. In 1934, the Nazis purged prominent members of the Sturmabteiling (SA), which had previously acted as the party’s shock troops in beating Jews

and other undesirables. Only four years later on the night of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis led and allowed pogroms, property destruction, and the burning of synagogues. These events are now known as Kristallnacht. This attack on German Jews came long before there was an Auschwitz or extermination camps. And yet, the violent assault is a prelude to what we now know transpired. What could have taken the Nazis from these first steps to their so-called “Final Solution”?

Aktion T4, a concerted campaign of forced euthanasia for the disabled and chronically infirm inspired by early 20th-century American experiments in eugenics, furnishes a key precursor. Led by soldier and former philosophy student Philipp Bouhler and Hitler’s personal physician Karl Brandt, this program, which began in 1939, killed between 275,000-300,000 people in an effort to improve the Reich’s “racial hygiene.” As World War II began, the drive to clear out eastern territories grew, leading the chemist and SS functionary August Becker to design gas vans that could be used to kill large numbers of people quickly and

efficiently with carbon monoxide. A means to “scientific” mass murder had finally been invented.

After 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the Nazis accelerated this policy of “efficient” murder. If Hitler’s Reich was really to last one thousand years, it would need space, space to the East of what was then Germany, on which to settle and proliferate the Aryan race. They called this land Ostraum or “Eastern Space,” the land which, as Nazi economist and head of the Reichsbank Walther Funk put it, was “rich in raw materials and not yet opened up [to] Europe, [it] will be Europe’s promising colonial land.” The Nazis began removing the local population, especially its Jews, vastly overpopulating the existing forced labor camp system, and leading the authorities to build more and more.

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Photos (top left): an assembly singing Nazi anthems, Poznań Poland; (below left): Nazi “anthropological measurement,” Tibet; (below right): destroyed Jewish shops and houses the day after Kristallnacht, Berlin

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

JOHANNA PFAELZER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | TOM PARRISH, MANAGING DIRECTOR

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT, BRIAN & DAYNA LEE, AND SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS with BRUCE ROBERTS/SUE VACCARO/RICKY STEVENS LINDA B. RUBIN GILBERT & DEEDEE GARCIA

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TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT'S

HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES

WRITTEN BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN AND AMANDA GRONICH

CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY MOISÉS KAUFMAN A CO-PRODUCTION WITH LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE

NATIONAL TOUR SPONSORED BY MIDNIGHT THEATRICALS AND UNDERWRITTEN BY MICHAEL P.N.A. HORMEL, KAY & BILL GURTIN, LEATRICE WOLF, AND JUDY & MICHAEL STEINHARDT

SCENIC DESIGN DEREK MCLANE

CREATIVE PRODUCER MATT JOSLYN

COSTUME DESIGN DEDE AYITE

LIGHTING DESIGN DAVID LANDER

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG AMY MARIE SEIDEL

CASTING

tbd casting co./ STEPHANIE YANKWITT, C.S.A.

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICES VOLEINE AMILCAR

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION AUDREY HOO

SOUND DESIGN BOBBY MCELVER

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER JACOB RUSSELL

PROJECTION DESIGN DAVID BENGALI

PRODUCTION MANAGER BEN SEIBERT

PRODUCTION GENERAL MANAGER EVAN BERNARDIN PRODUCTIONS / HILLEL FRIEDMAN

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER — NEW WORK victor cervantes jr. GENERAL MANAGER SARA DANIELSEN

DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE ANTHONY JACKSON

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND DIVERSITY MODESTA TAMAYO

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AMANDA WILLIAMS O’STEEN presents

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT ARI LIPSKY

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DAVID MENDIZÁBAL

Devised by Scott Barrow, Amy Marie Seidel, Frances Uku, Grant James Varjas, and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project

Here There Are Blueberries was originally commissioned and developed by Tectonic Theater Project Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director & Matt Joslyn, Executive Director

Here There Are Blueberries is the winner of the 2021 Theater J Trish Vradenburg Jewish Play Prize. Adam Immerwahr, Artistic Director; David Lloyd Olson, Managing Director

This play had its first workshop production at Miami New Drama’s Colony Theater, Miami Beach, May, 2018

The playwrights and collaborating artists dedicate this production to the memory of their beloved friend and champion, Jeffrey Ressler

World premiere of Here There Are Blueberries produced in 2022 by La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, California

Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director & Debby Buchholz, Managing Director

Please turn off your cell phones, beeping watches, and electronic devices, and refrain from unwrapping cellophane wrappers during the performance. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights, and actionable under United States copyright law.

Scott Barrow

Nemuna Ceesay .

Delia Cunningham .

Luke Forbes .

Noah Keyishian

Barbara Pitts

Jeanne Sakata

Marrick Smith

Grant James Varjas

Sam Reeder .

Jeanne Sakata

Anna Shafer

CAST

In alphabetical order

.Karl Höcker & Others

. .Charlotte Schünzel & Others

. .Rebecca Erbelding & Others

.Tilman Taube & Others (through Thursday, April 10, 2025)

Tilman Taub & Others (as of Friday, April 11, 2025)

(as of

.Judy Cohen & Others

Melita Maschmann & Others

.Rainer Höss & Others

Peter Wirths & Others

UNDERSTUDIES

.Understudy Karl, Rainer & Others

.Understudy Judy Cohen & Others

Understudy Rebecca, Charlotte, Melita & Others

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

The actors and stage managers on this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

This theatre operates under agreements with the League of Resident Theatres, Actors’ Equity Association (the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States), the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and United Scenic Artists.

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS

Anonymous

Stephen & Susan Chamberlin

Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau

Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney

Yogen & Peggy Dalal

Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer

Jonathan Logan & John Piane

SEASON SPONSORS

Gisele & Kenneth F. Miller

Jack & Betty Schafer

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS

Bill Falik & Diana Cohen

Scott & Sherry Haber

Len & Arlene Rosenberg

Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff

Edith Barschi & Robert Jackson

Angelos Kottas & Phyra McCandless

The Strauch Kulhanjian Family

Gail & Arne Wagner

Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson

Steven and Linda Wolan

The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund – Jean Strunsky, Trustee

SPONSORS

Ingrid D. Tauber Fund

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS

Jewish Family and Children’s Services

The Libitzky Family Foundation

OPENING NIGHT: APRIL 9, 2025

RODA THEATRE

Steven & Linda Wolan

Laura Graham Panoramic Interests

RUN TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 90 MINUTES WITH NO INTERMISSION

Company Manager .

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

Assistant Stage Manager.

Intimacy Coordinator & Sensitivity Specialist.

Technical Director

Lighting Director

Associate Scenic Designer

Associate Costume Designer

Associate Lighting Designer.

Associate Sound Designer.

Associate Projection Designers

Systems Engineer

Lighting Programmer

Projection Programmers.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Erica Miller

Gillian Lelchuk

Ann C. James

Jackie Young

Molly Tiede-Schroer

Rochele Mac

Niaamar Felder

Molly Tiede-Schroer

Salvador Zamora

Elizabeth Jane Barrett, Taylor Edelle Stuart

Peter Brucker

Taylor Jensen

Luis Garcia, Jerran Kowalski

Projection and Sound Equipment provided by Sound Associates; Lighting Equipment provided by PRG.

Deck Crew

Wardrobe Crew

Light Board Operator

Sound Show Crew

Chris Russell

Siobhán Slater

Kenny Coté

Medical Consultation for Berkeley Rep provided by Mari Bell MPT (UCSF), Ed Blumenstock MD, Charissa Chaban DPT, Cindy J. Chang MD (UCSF), Christina Corey MD, Neil Claveria PT, Patricia I. Commer DPT, Kathy Fang MD PhD, Steven Fugaro MD, Anjali Gupta MD (Kaiser), Olivia Lang MD (Berkeley Pediatrics), Allen Ling PT, Liz Nguyen DPT, Desiree A. Unsworth DPT, Christina S. Wilmer OD, Eric Yabu DDS, and Katherine C. Yung MD

TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT

Moisés Kaufman, Artistic Director Matt Joslyn, Executive Director General Manager.

Chair of the Moment Work Institute.

Director of International Programs

Director of Development & Special Projects.

Executive Assistant

Associate Producer

Marketing Consultant

Production General Management.

Production Management Consultant

Leigh Fondakowski

Jeffrey LaHoste

Zena Hinds

Katie Wagner

Ido Gal

Nicole Dancel

Evan Bernardin Productions / Hillel Friedman

Ben Seibert Board of Directors

Richard Sheehan (Chair), Alan Kornberg, Amy Stursberg (Co-Vice Chairs), Gary Ressler (Treasurer), Jeffrey Lawhorn (Secretary), Deborah Barrera, Ruth Fisher, Michael Graziano, Mark Gude, John Hadity, Michael P.N.A. Hormel, Scott Johnson, Erika Kramer, Jeffrey LaHoste, George Slowik Jr., Lori Steinberg, Gretchen Tibbits, Aaron Walton, Timothy Wu, Kevin Jennings (Founding Chair)

The National Tour of Here There Are Blueberries is made possible through the generosity of:

And underwritten by MICHAEL P.N.A. HORMEL, KAY & BILL GURTIN, LEATRICE WOLF, and JUDY & MICHAEL STEINHARDT

NATIONAL TOUR DATES:

MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER

JANUARY 24 – FEBRUARY 9 THE WALLIS ANNENBERG MARCH 13 – MARCH 30

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE APRIL 5 – MAY 11 and throughout the 25/26 season.

The creation of Here There Are Blueberries was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

ARTISTIC

BERKELEY REP STAFF

Johanna Pfaelzer ....................................... Artistic Director

David Mendizábal Associate Artistic Director/Director of In Dialogue

victor cervantes jr Associate Producer/New Work

Karina Fox Associate Casting Director & Artistic Associate

Rebs Chan In Dialogue Coordinator

Todd Almond, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs, Dipika Guha, Richard Montoya, Nico Muhly, Lisa Peterson, Sarah Ruhl, Tori Sampson, Jack Thorne, Joe Waechter ................. Artists Under Commission

GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND COMPANY MANAGEMENT

Sara Danielsen General Manager

Ryan Duncan-Ayala Company Manager

Emily Betts General Management Associate

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

Audrey Hoo ....................................... Director of Production

Kali Grau ............................................. Production Manager

COSTUMES

Maggi Yule Costume Shop Director

Kiara Montgomery Resident Design Associate

Star Rabinowitz Draper

Barbara Blair Wardrobe Supervisor

ELECTRICS

Frederick C. Geffken ................................ Lighting Supervisor

Sarina Renteria .......................... Associate Lighting Supervisor

Kenneth Coté ............................ Senior Production Electrician

Desiree Alcocer Production Electrician

PROPERTIES

Jillian A. Green Properties Supervisor

Amelia Burke-Holt .................... Associate Properties Supervisor

Brittany Watkins ..................................... Properties Artisan

SCENE SHOP

Matt Rohner, Jim Smith ......................... Co-Technical Directors

Read Tuddenham Assistant Technical Director — Shop

Grant Vocks Assistant Technical Director — Engineering

August Lewallen, Zach Wziontka Scenic Carpenters

SCENIC ART

Lisa Lázár ............................................ Charge Scenic Artist

STAGE OPERATIONS

Julia Englehorn ......................................... Stage Supervisor

Gabriel Holman Associate Stage Supervisor

James McGregor Head Stage Technician

SOUND/ VIDEO

Lane Elms ................................... Sound and Video Supervisor

Rebecca Satzberg ............. Associate Sound and Video Supervisor

Angela Don ....................................... Senior Sound Engineer

Akari Izumi ............................................... Sound Engineer

BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE

Anthony Jackson Director of the School of Theatre

MaryBeth Cavanaugh Director of Classes and Summer Programming

Ashley Lim Marketing and Registrations Manager

AeJay Antonis Marquis Mitchell ...... Education Programs Associate Euan Ashley ......... In-School Residency and Curriculum Supervisor

Leah Sanginiti ............ Elementary Camp Programming Specialist

Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, Bobby August Jr., April Ballesteros, L.M. Bogad, Phaedra Tillery-Boughton, Jessica Bettencourt, Diana Brown, Erica Blue, Rebecca Castelli, Rebs Chan, Iu-Hui Chua, Jiwon Chung, Amelia Costales-Downey, Deb Eubanks, Rachel Garlin, Nancy Gold, Gary Graves, Linda Girón, Marvin Greene, Susan Jane Harrison, Wayne Harris, George Higgins, Bailey Hopkins, Gendell Hing-Hernandez, Harper Iles, Paul Jennings, Erolina Kamburova, Jennifer LeBlanc, Dave Maier, Carolyn McCandlish, Amanda Nguyen, Kit Lunt, Jonathan Moscone, Basye Mummert, Joel Ochoa, Joe Orrach, Robert Parsons, Hans Probst, Julius Rea, Bri Reads, Pamela Rickard, Alexandra Rivers, Teresa Salas, M. Graham Smith, Hayley Sherwood, Joyful Simpson, Samuel Tomfohr, James Wagner, Joshua Waterstone, Dan Wolf, Phil Wong, Elizabeth Woolford ..................................... Teaching Artists

ADMINISTRATION

Tom Parrish ........................................... Managing Director

Katie Riemann Associate Finance Director

Jennifer Light Payroll Administrator

Alanna McFall ................................................ Bookkeeper

Victoria McNaughton ......................... Yale Management Fellow

Modesta Tamayo ........ Director of Human Resources and Diversity

Kira Findling HR Coordinator

DEVELOPMENT

Ari Lipsky ....................................... Director of Development

Laura Fichtenberg ................. Associate Director of Development

Kelsey Scott ...................... Senior Institutional Giving Manager

Andrew Maguire

Philanthropy Officer

Harper Brown Annual Fund Manager

Isabella Chayet ..................... Corporate Partnerships Manager

Elaina Guyett ........................Stewardship and Events Manager

Rodrick Edwards Development Coordinator

Cassidy Milano Development Operations Coordinator

OPERATIONS

Amanda Williams O’Steen ....................... Director of Operations

Peter Orkiszewski ................... Associate Director of Operations

Adam Johnson Facilities Manager

Thomas Tran Building Engineer

Jesus Rodriguez ..................................... Building Technician

Theresa Drumgoole, Wendi Lau

Sophie Li, Darrel De La Rosa .

.Facilities Assistants

Destiny Askin CRM Project Manager

Christina Cone Web and Database Specialist

Nicole Peña ................................ Medak and Rentals Manager

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Voleine Amilcar ........ Director of Marketing and Audience Services

Heather Orth Associate Director of Marketing

DC Scarpelli Creative Director

Kevin Kopjak –

Prismatic Communications .............. Public Relations Consultant

Lindsey Abbott Audience Development Manager

Calvin Ngu Video and Multimedia Content Creator

Quinn Barringer Graphic Designer

AUDIENCE SERVICES

Emily Byrne .................... Sales and Audience Services Manager

Saoirse Keogh Box Office Supervisor

pan ellington, Matthew Hayden, Kathlyn Ibazeta,

Olga Khitarishvili, Jack Melcher, Em Parker, Sesar Sanchez, Celeste Wong ....................... Box Office Agents

Kelly Kelley ...................................... Front of House Director

Maddi Gjovik, Armando Herrera, Caitlyn Lee Patron Services Supervisors

Carlos Andrade, Julian Balcziunas, Lee Barrett, Megan Bedig, Damian Buford, Steven Cole, Latasha Hayes, Camille Kobelin, Elisa Matalon, Alana Melvin, Zoe Mueller, Niya Paul, Aurora Pope, Nicolas Puorro, Tuesday Ray, Alana Scott, Kira Street, Kailani Zabala Patron Experience Representatives

2024/25 BERKELEY REP FELLOWSHIPS

Katie Anthony ........................... Company Management Fellow

Caitlyn Brown ........................................... Scenic Art Fellow

Cassidy Carlson Scenic Construction Fellow

Amanda Geyer Costumes Fellow

Kaileykielle Hoga ....................... Harry Weininger Sound Fellow

Mondara Ixchel ......................................... Education Fellow

Jason Joo Properties Fellow

Xiaoyu (Mary) Liu

Manon McCollum

Peter F. Sloss Artistic Fellow

Bret C. Harte Artistic Fellow

Rhea Mehta ............................ Production Management Fellow

Renata Taylor-Smith ..................................... Electrics Fellow

Zach Terrillion Marketing and Development Fellow

Docents

Matty Bloom, Joy Lancaster, Selma Meyerowitz ....... Docent Chairs Ted Bagaman, Beth Cohen, Michelle Cordero, Miles Drawdy, Charles Evans, Tyrone Fleurizard, Randi Helly, Diana Insolio, Sue Kaplan, Jim Krampf, Mark Liss,Virginia McCarthy, Judith O’Rourke, Gigi Singer, Bridget Soto

Trinity Wicklund Stage Management Fellow

Scott Barrow

Karl Höcker & Others

Scott Barrow is a Company member of Tectonic Theater Project where he has been a devisor on Blueberries from the first residency at Miami New Drama, is a contributing author of the company’s book: Moment Work, teaches devising, and was part of the creative team on Broadway’s Tony Award-winning 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, as well as Uncommon Sense, and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Scott is the Artistic Director of Stages on the Sound where he champions unconventional classrooms and unpredictable productions.

Nemuna Ceesay

Charlotte Schünzel & Others

Nemuna Ceesay is a director/actor in NYC. Select Acting credits: New York Theatre Workshop (HTAB), Actors Theatre of Louisville (Loving and Loving), The Shed (Straight Line Crazy), Second Stage (Patience), Two River (Three Sisters), Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Select Directing credits: Playwrights Horizons (Amusements), 66th Obie Awards, Associate Director of A Strange Loop on Broadway. Artistic fellow at The Workshop: a fellowship centering the work of Jews of Color artists & culture-makers. MFA in acting: A.C.T. Visit www.nemunaceesay.com

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Delia Cunningham

Rebecca Erbelding & Others

Delia Cunningham can currently be seen portraying Nurse Carla in Before for Apple TV+ alongside Billy Crystal, and has also recurred on Paper Girls

(Amazon) and City On Fire (Apple TV+). She recently made her off-Broadway debut in Someone Spectacular at Signature Center and toured with A View From The Bridge directed by Ivo van Hove. Delia is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Luke Forbes

Tilman Taube & Others

Luke Forbes was most recently featured as a guest star on CBS’s The Equalizer and recently wrapped a major recurring role on the Amazon original series Harlem. He has also recurred on S.W.A.T. and has guest starred many TV series including: This Is Us, Chicago PD, Atlanta, and House Of Cards. He can be seen opposite Channing Tatum in the feature film Dog and leading the critically acclaimed film, Crown Heights.

Noah Keyishian

Tilman Taub & Others

Off-Broadway: Franklinland (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: The Lehman Trilogy (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Olney Theatre Center); Love All; (La Jolla Playhouse); Are You There? (44th Humana Festival); A Christmas Carol; Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Education: MFA UC San Diego

Barbara Pitts

Judy Cohen & Others

Barbara Pitts is an original actor/co-creator of The Laramie Project (BAM, Union Square, La Jolla, Berkeley Rep) and appears in HBO Film’s adaptation (shared Emmy Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay). Recent theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mona Pirnot’s Baseball It Is and Chris O’Connor’s The Gentleman from Philly (Mile Square Theatre). TV: Person of

Interest, Forever, Kidnapped, 30 Rock, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Law & Order, L&O: SVU, and Comedy Central’s Pulp Comics.

Sam Reeder

u/s Karl, Rainer & Others

Sam is excited to be part of this wonderful company! A frequent actor with Tectonic Theater Project, he’s appeared in Here There are Blueberries at New York Theatre Workshop, and developmental showings of Treatment & Data and Gross Indecency. Favorite credits include: Hal in Henry IV (LiveArts), Actor 2 in Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (Virginia Theater Festival), KJ in The Aliens, Panch/Olive’s Dad in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Septimus in Arcadia.

Jeanne Sakata

Melita Maschmann, u/s Judy Cohen & Others

Off-Broadway: Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard Theatre); Macbeth (The Public). Selected Regional: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; The House of Bernarda Alba (CTG/Mark Taper Forum); Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse); Calligraphy (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); Last of the Suns (Berkeley Rep); Red (East West Players; Theatre LA Ovation Award, Outstanding Lead Actress). Selected TV: Station 19, NCIS Hawai’i, NCIS Los Angeles, Magnum P.I., Hit Monkey, High School Musical. Playwright: Hold These Truths (Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Guthrie Theatre, and more; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance). jeannesakata.com, holdthesetruths.info

Anna Shafer

u/s Rebecca, Charlotte, Melita, & Others

Anna lives, works, and teaches in Washington, DC. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries at New York Theatre Workshop. DC Credits: Here There Are Blueberries at Shakespeare Theatre Company; Poetry For the People and This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Helen Hayes Award Winner for Outstanding Ensemble) at Theater Alliance; The Upstairs Department at Signature Theatre. National Players Tour 71. Education: American University.

Marrick Smith

Rainer Höss & Others

Marrick is a NYC-based actor and audio engineer. Broadway: Fun Home (OBC). National Tour: Dear Evan Hansen (OTC). Off-Broadway: Pretty Filthy, Wild Goose Dreams, (Public). TV: The Blacklist. Regional: Fiddler, Forum (MUNY) Beautiful (Paper Mill). Film/TV Scoring: Tuesday, The Screens, Macabre. Music Production: Kristen Plati, J. Riley Henderson, Sarah Morgan, and Sabrina Monique. FOH Mixing: Ed Palermo, Marc Lettieri, Jimmy Vivino, Kofi Baker, Lee Rittenour. Love to Kayleigh and Leia.

Grant James Varjas

Peter Wirths & Others

Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop), Twelve Dreams, The Common Pursuit (Roundabout), 33 To Nothing. Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Goodman Theatre), 33 Variations (Center Theatre Group). Film: The Laramie Project (HBO), Peter and Vandy, Territory. TV:

Sex and the City, Law & Order: CI, Chicago P.D. Writer, deviser, company member at Tectonic Theater Project, and faculty member at its Moment Work Institute.

Moisés Kaufman

Co-Author, Conceiver, Director Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy nominated director and playwright who received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2016. Broadway credits include Paradise Square (10 Tony Award nominations), Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (wrote and directed, Tony nomination Best Play), and Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award). Other productions include: Pulitzer Prize finalist Here There Are Blueberries, Velour: A Drag Spectacular, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award). He is the co-writer of The Laramie Project and the writer of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. He’s an Obie and Drama Desk award winner and a Guggenheim fellow.

Amanda Gronich Co-Author

An Emmy-nominated, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Amanda became a lead series writer for National Geographic Television and Supervising Senior Writer at Hoff Productions, creating top-rated shows for networks including Discovery, WeTV, Animal Planet, TLC and Science Channel. With Tectonic Theater Project, Amanda directed the Toronto production of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and was a co-creator of The Laramie Project. A book about her story devising methods will be released by SIU Press.

Derek McLane

Scenic Designer

Broadway designs: Death Becomes Her, Purlie Victorious, MJ, Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), A Soldier’s Play, The Price, Beautiful, Gigi, 33 Variations (Tony Award), How to Succeed in Business…, Follies, Anything Goes, Ragtime, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. Television 6 years Academy Awards (Emmy Award), 4 NBC Musicals, including Hairspray (Emmy Award). Awards: multiple Tony Awards, Emmy’s, Obie’s, Drama Desks, Lucille Lortel Awards, and Art Directors Guild Awards. Designed the 2024 Met Gala.

Dede Ayite

Costume Designer

Dede Ayite is a Tony Award-winning costume designer. Recent: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at the Metropolitan Opera. Select Broadway: Our Town, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Tony Award), Hell’s Kitchen, Appropriate, Topdog/ Underdog, Slave Play. Select Off-Broadway: Merry Wives (Public), Buena Vista, Days of Wine and Roses (Atlantic). Select Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage. Television: Netflix, Comedy Central. Awards: TDF/Kitty Leech Young Master Award, Obie, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, Audelco, Jeff awards.

David Lander

Lighting Designer

Broadway: Torch Song with Michael Urie, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda, I Am My Own Wife with Jefferson Mays, all with Moises Kaufman, among other productions. Extensive Off-Broadway, regional theatre and international theatre, and opera. Awards: Two Tony Award nominations, Five Drama Desk Awards-One win, among many others.

Bobby McElver

Sound Designer

Off-Broadway: Hadestown (NYTW, Associate), After (The Public Theater), Red Speedo (NYTW, Associate). Recent: Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW, Shakespeare Theatre Co, La Jolla Playhouse), NOWISWHENWEARE (BAM, Walker, NYU Abu Dhabi), The Other Shore (On the Boards), Circular Dimensions: Microscape (Coachella). Company member of The Wooster Group (2011-2016). Frequent collaborator with Andrew Schneider. Professor at UC San Diego Theatre & Dance.

David Bengali

Projection Designer

Broadway: Water for Elephants (Tony and Outer Critics Noms), The Thanksgiving Play, 1776, Eureka Day. Off-Broadway / Regional: We Live In Cairo (A.R.T., New York Theatre Workshop); Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW, La Jolla, Shakespeare Theatre DC; Hewes and Helen Hayes Awards); Twilight: LA 1992 (Signature, A.R.T.; Hewes Award, Drama Desk Nom), Monsoon Wedding (Saint Anns), The Visitor (The Public; Lortel Nom), Walk On Through (MCC); Circle Jerk (Fake Friends; Obie Award); National Tours: Peter Pan, 1776, Rockin Road to Dublin.

Ann C. James

Intimacy Coordinator

Ann C. James debuted as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator on Broadway for Pass Over. Recently, her company Intimacy Coordinators of Color was awarded a Special Citation from the OBIE Awards. Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, A Wonderful World, Eureka Day, Lempicka, The Outsiders, Hamilton, Parade, Sweeney Todd, Heart Of Rock And Roll, Illinoise. Off-Broadway: 3 Summers Of Lincoln, Shit. Meet. Fan., Velour! A Drag Spectacular!, The Hippest Trip, Sunset Baby, Jonah, White Girl In Danger, How To Defend Yourself, The Comeuppance, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, My Broken Language, The Half-God Of Rainfall, Here There Are

Blueberries, Life And Trust, The Lonely Few. Tour: Hamilton USA, UK, and AUS.

Amy Marie Seidel

Associate Director & Dramaturg Amy Marie Seidel is a NYC-based theatre maker who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. She is a company member at Tectonic, where, in addition to Blueberries, she has developed Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk) and Treatment & Data. Amy recently directed a reading of All The Frozen Ones by Stella Ferra (Starring Robert Sean Leonard). Additional assist/ assoc director credits include: Paradise Square (Bway), The Great Gatsby (Bway) & Billie Jean (Development). www.amymarieseidel.com

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER/HERS

tbd casting co./ Stephanie Yankwitt, C.S.A.

Casting

Stephanie Yankwitt, tbd casting co., is the resident Casting Director for Tectonic Theater Project, where past productions include Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla, STC, NYTW, National Tour), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (co-written by and starring Sasha Velour), and the upcoming Broadway revival of The Laramie Project. tbd co. is also the resident casting office for Soho Rep, where recent productions include Give Me Carmelita Tropicana (Branden Jacobs Jenkins), and the upcoming production of The Great Privation (Nia Akilah-Robinson), Soho Rep/Playwrights Horizons. @tbdcastingco

Jacob Russell

Stage

Manager

For Here There Are Blueberries: Production Stage Manager (NYTW) and Assistant Stage Manager (La Jolla Playhouse & Shakespeare Theatre Company). With Krymov Lab NYC: Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: In Our Own Words (Under the Radar) and Big Trip

(La MaMa), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (LJP), The Library (The Public Theater), Big 5-Oh Tour (Pilobolus). MFA: University California San Diego. For my grandfather, Bernie Halpern (19272022), who served as a cook in the Navy during WWII.

Gillian Lelchuk

Assistant Stage Manager

Gillian Lelchuk is thrilled to return to the Blueberries family for the third time! Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries. Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse); Frozen (Olney Theatre Center); The Sound of Music (Musical Theatre West); A Midsummer Night's Dream, JAW New Play Festival 2023 (Portland Center Stage). Selected other work: Newsies (Theatre Lab); Dance Nation, In the Red and Brown Water (UCSD). MFA from UC San Diego.

EBP

Production General Manager

Evan Bernardin Productions has managed over one hundred productions in New York City, London, and the touring markets. New York credits include: Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk), Douglas Carter Beane's Fairycakes, The Great Gatsby: Immersive, Fatherland, Afterglow, and We Are The Tigers. Touring: On Your Feet!, Dreamworks' Madagascar, Million Dollar Quartet, Sony Pictures' Insidious: The Further You Fear, and the current concert tours of Avatar The Last Airbender and Spiderman Into The Spiderverse. Regionally: Velour: A Drag Spectacular at La Jolla Playhouse, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard at Miami New Drama, and Reefer Madness in Los Angeles.

Jacqueline Deniz Young

Technical Director

Recent work includes Technical Designer for Signature Theatre, DC and Goodspeed, Rigging for Noli Timere, Interim Technical Director for Here There are Blueberries (NYTW), and

opening the new Perelman PAC at the World Trade Center. Past technical direction includes work at Two River Theater, Studio Theatre (DC), and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Educational work, teaching, and mentoring, includes Rutgers University, MGSA, and Montclair State University. Jackie holds an MFA in Technical Design and Production from Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Technical Production from Montclair State University.

PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

Molly Tiede-Schroer

Lighting Director

Molly Tiede-Schroer has been with Blueberries since its 2022 stage debut at La Jolla Playhouse. A longtime Tectonic company member, they are thrilled to help share this important story nationwide. In-between her time on Blueberries, Molly works as a lighting designer, corporate/event lighting designer, and project manager. Their design credits include Off-Broadway, regional theatres, operas, and major events across the country, spanning diverse stages and environments. www.mollytiededesign.com

PRONOUNS: THEY/SHE

Tectonic Theater Project

Producer

Since its founding in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman & Jeffrey LaHoste, Tectonic has created some of the most influential plays in the theatrical landscape, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, 33 Variations, and Seven Deadly Sins. Tectonic's newest play, Here There Are Blueberries, launched at La Jolla Playhouse and was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Other recent world premieres include Velour: A Drag Spectacular, which debuted at La Jolla Playhouse and Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, which premiered at Miami New Drama. The company is

based in New York City and guided by Moisés Kaufman and Matt Joslyn.

Brian & Dayna Lee

Producer

Founders of AF Creative Media, a three time Tony Award-winning production company. Broadway: Company (Tony Award), Moulin Rouge (Tony Award), Angels in America (Tony Award), Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, The Who’s Tommy, and Funny Girl. West End: Moulin Rouge. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop) with Tectonic Theater Project. Upcoming: Giant starring John Lithgow and directed by Nicholas Hytner (West End April 2025), Becoming Eve (New York Theatre Workshop), Fiddler on the Roof (West End 2025 and UK Tour), Jerry Herman’s Mrs. Santa Claus (Goodspeed Opera House). In Development: Practical Magic, Nowhere Boy, The Laramie Project. Additionally, Brian and Dayna run a popular Instagram blog called @artsfoodfamily with over 127k followers. Their greatest achievement to date has been their amazing children, Ella & Emmy and Ezra.

Sonia Friedman Productions

Producer is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 220 new productions and has won 63 Olivier Awards, 48 Tonys, and 3 BAFTAs. Current and forthcoming productions include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Global); The Book of Mormon (West End, UK and International tour); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End, Broadway); Mean Girls (West End). Visit soniafriedman.com for full details.

Bruce Roberts

Co-Producer

Thrilled to help bring Blueberries to a wider audience. For over 35 years, Bruce has Produced and Consulted on dozens of Broadway shows and National tours, including Having Our Say, Annie Warbucks, Magic On Broadway, and Solitary Confinement. As a producer of Industrial Shows, Bruce has partnered with companies such as AWS, Microsoft, and Marriott. Deepest love to his wife, Babette, and their two sons, Bennet and Brent. Thanks to R. Keiling, LCSW. BruceRoberts.net

Sue Vaccaro

Co-Producer

Tony Award-winner for Clybourne Park and three-time nominee for Producer of the Year. Her other theatre credits include New York New York on Broadway, the widely acclaimed revival of Smokey Joes’ Cafe in London, and Rue McLanahan’s final show My First Five Husbands. As a film Producer Sue won the New York Film Festival Award for Best Comedy for Ron & Laura Take Back America. She is Executive Producing the Broadway aimed play Mister Halston.

Ricky Stevens

Co-Producer

Ricky has worked in the theatre for over forty years, first appearing in a production of Damn Yankees with Vincent Price and Michelle Lee at age ten. He has been active on Broadway and Off-Broadway as a Producer, General Manager, Dramaturg, and investor relations specialist. Ricky has a Tony Award, multiple Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and the honor of having produced August Wilson’s final play Radio Golf. Ricky thanks his Mom & Dad for everything.

Linda B. Rubin

Co-Producer

8 Tony Award-winner for The Outsiders, Stereophonic, Leopoldstadt, Parade, The Lehman Trilogy, Company, Hadestown, and Angels in America. Other credits include Gutenberg: The Musical, The Who's Tommy, The Piano Lesson, and Network on Broadway. West End shows include: Hadestown, Standing at The Sky's Edge, Dear England, The Motive and The Cue, Dr Semmelweis, A Mirror and Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical and Mandela at The Young Vic. Devoted USHMM supporter/Rubin L.A. Lecture Series & Geffen Playhouse Board member.

Gilbert & DeeDee Garcia Co-Producer

Gilbert and DeeDee are thrilled to be producing the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Here There Are Blueberries. The Garcias were Co-Producers on New York New York and proud to support Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. Gilbert is the Managing Partner of Garcia Hamilton & Associates, a $23 billion money management firm, and DeeDee is a retired Optometrist. They live in Houston, love live theatre and have raised four children—Andrew, Daniel, Benjamin and Julianna.

Kathy & Gene Bernstein Co-Producer

Gene Bernstein is a semi-retired business executive who began his career teaching English Literature for 7 years at Notre Dame, before changing careers as part of the 3rd generation to run Northville Industries. Headquartered on Long Island, the company wholesales, stores, and commodity trades refined petroleum products, as well as managing Petro Terminal de Panama, a company that stores crude oil and transports it via a 91 mile pipeline across the isthmus of Panama in a joint

venture with the government and a 3rd partner. He serves on the boards of Alfred University, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 1st Tee Metropolitan New York, and several others.

Michael Lamon Co-Producer

is a Tony Award®-winning producer and Purple Heart recipient. Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (Tony), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Tony nomination), SMASH, Operation Mincemeat. Concert: A Little Night Music with Cynthia Erivo, Conducted by Jonathan Tunick at Lincoln Center. Lead Producer of Figaro: An Original Musical (West End). Michael resides in NYC with his wife (@julia_lamon_soprano), and two children (Livia and Titus). @michael_l_lamon

Patty Baker Co-Producer

Tony, DD, OCC, Peabody winner. Thanks to all of you who support live theatre, which entertains, enlightens, and engages. Thanks to my family, who do the same.

InStone Productions Co-Producer

Dan Stone is a passionate producer who has spent the past decade helping to bring important stories to theatres on and off-Broadway. Dan, a Tony and Olivier Award-winner, received his BA in politics and social justice, from NYU. He is extremely particular with which shows he chooses to back, opting for ones that will help to implement change. Credits include Dear Evan Hansen, The Inheritance, The Prom, Parade, Some Like It Hot, How To Dance in Ohio, Standing on Ceremony, The Piano Lesson, The Wiz, and Cabaret, among others. Dan is proud, grateful, and humbled to be involved in this stunning and important piece.

Alexander Robertson

Co-Producer

is a multi-Tony Award®-nominated producer, actor, and creative. Select Broadway producing credits include GYPSY; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; Appropriate (2024 Tony Award® Best Revival of a Play); The Wiz; and A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. He founded Emlex Entertainment and co-founded DMQR Productions, focusing on innovative storytelling and creative development. Upcoming: SMASH; BOOP!; The Show on the Roof; and Yasuke: The Legend of The Black Samurai. A-Robertson.com.

2 On the Aisle BDWY

Co-Producer

2 On the Aisle BDWY are Ellen Botwin and Howard Ignal, a married couple, whose credits as producers and investors include: Broadway: Cabaret, Sunset Blvd, Merrily We Roll Along, The Who's Tommy, Parade, Company, Funny Girl, Sidney Brustein; Upcoming: Regency Girls; Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd; West End: The Producers, Dorian Gray, Starlight Express; International Tours: Hamilton, M.J. We are thrilled and honored to be involved in Blueberries and its exposure of the banality of evil.

JJ Powell

Co-Producer

JJ Powell is CEO of Neptune Theatrical Productions. Hailing from a career in the legal industry, he has successfully produced hits including Merrily We Roll Along, Sunset Blvd., and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. JJ is an Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer. He is thrilled to be a part of the team of Here There are Blueberries which tells an important and poignant tale which merits and warrants to be told far and wide across the globe.

Johanna Pfaelzer

Artistic Director

Johanna joined Berkeley Rep in 2019 as its fourth artistic director, following 12 years as artistic director of New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a New York City-based developer of new works for theatre, film, and television. Johanna is proud to have developed work by notable established and early career writers like Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Goddess by Saheem Ali, Michael Thurber, and Jocelyn Bioh; The Humans by Stephen Karam; Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell; The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe; The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac; The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu; The Great Leap by Lauren Yee; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; The Fortress of Solitude by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses; The Jacksonian by Beth Henley; and Green Day’s American Idiot. Johanna previously served as associate artistic director of American Conservatory Theater and is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Program. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, Russell Champa, and their son, Jasper.

Tom Parrish

Managing Director

Tom has served as a theatre leader and arts administrator for over 20 years, with experience in organizations ranging from multivenue performing arts centers to major Tony Award-winning theatre companies. Prior to Berkeley Rep, he served as executive director of Trinity Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, and Merrimack Repertory Theatre and as associate managing director/ general manager of San Diego Repertory Theatre. His work has been recognized with a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Producer and “Forty Under 40” recognition in Providence,

Rochester, the Merrimack Valley, and San Diego. He received his MBA/ MA in Arts Administration from Southern Methodist University; BA in Theater Arts and Economics from Case Western Reserve University; attended the Commercial Theater Institute, National Theater Institute, and Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; and is certified in Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Northwestern University. He and his husband live in Berkeley.

Investing in Arts Through the Artistic Director’s Circle

TWO OF BERKELEY REP’S NEW MEMBERS

DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNDING LIVE THEATRE

Berkeley Rep’s Artistic Director’s Circle brings together more than two hundred of the organization’s most generous and dedicated donors, all united by a passion for the arts and their life-changing potential.

Two of the Circle’s newest members are Margaret Cecchetti and Carla Javits, who substantially increased their annual donation at the end of last year. We spoke with Margaret and Carla about their relationship with Berkeley Rep and why they decided to join the Artistic Director’s Circle.

Carla is a current senior advisor at REDF, while Margaret is a retired high school Spanish teacher and administrator. The two have attended Berkeley Rep shows since the 1980s and they have long enjoyed their balance between grand production value and social commentary.

For what inspired their recent gift, the donors cited Berkeley Rep’s local outreach, emphasizing the arts’ ability to strengthen communities.

“We need more places where members of our community are present live and in-person. Berkeley Rep

is one of those institutions that really makes that happen,” Carla said.

Margaret added, “art is the best thing in life… It opens people’s minds, and we need more of that.”

They particularly praised Berkeley Rep’s efforts to bring in younger audiences, such as through its discounted ticket program.

“Any programming that gets younger people involved in theatre can be powerful and positive,” Carla observed.

Both donors looked forward to their future with Berkeley Rep and the longevity of the organization.

Margaret concluded, “We’re happy to be at a moment in our lives when we can support Berkeley Rep.”

Do you share Margaret and Carla’s passion for the arts and community at Berkeley Rep? To learn more about joining the Artistic Director’s Circle and its benefits, visit berkeleyrep.org/adc or call 510-657-2904.

Patrons and staff embrace the arts at Berkeley Rep through (clockwise from top left) an opening night celebration, an In Dialogue event in Michael’s Second Act Bar, and a student matinee performance.

Artist’s rendering of the new JFCS Holocaust Center building in San Francisco.

THANK YOU to our supporters!

We thank the many organizations and individuals who enrich our community by championing Berkeley Rep’s artistic, education, and community engagement programs.

Institutional Funders

FOUNDATION

Anonymous (3)

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Civic Foundation, Inc.

Davis/Dauray Family Fund

The William H. Donner Foundation, Inc.

The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund –Jean Strunsky, Trustee

Eva Gunther Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

JEC Foundation

Koret Foundation

Laurents/Hatcher Foundation

Libitzky Family Foundation

Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund

Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

The Maurer Family Foundation

Miranda Lux Foundation

Morris Stulsaft Foundation

The Bernard Osher Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust

Tarbell Family Foundation

Taube Philanthropies

Ingrid D. Tauber Fund

Westridge Foundation

Woodlawn Foundation

Corporate & Hospitality Sponsors

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR

CORPORATE PARTNERS

Armanino LLP

Aurora Catering

Bank of Marin

SEASON SPONSOR

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS

SPONSORS

Comal

Covenant Wines

Hafner Vineyards

Hammerling Wines

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

Panoramic Interests

Pinx Catering

Jewish Family and Children’s Services

PERFORMANCE SPONSORS

Andrea Gordon Real Estate

BluesCruise.com

Perfusion Vineyard

Smile City Photo Booth

The Resilience Campaign

PUBLIC FUNDING

Berkeley Civic Arts Program and Commission

National Endowment for the Arts

BENEFACTOR SPONSORS

Broc Cellars

City Baking Co.

Eureka!

Family Laundry

Gallagher Risk Management Services

Heroic Italian

JazzCaffè

Kermit Lynch

Lucia’s Berkeley

Picante

TheatreWorks

Berkeley Repertory Theatre gratefully recognizes the following contributors for their transformational contributions to The Resilience Campaign that support the organization’s future.

Anonymous

California Wellness Foundation

Stephen & Susan Chamberlin

Yogen & Peggy Dalal

Robin & Rich Edwards

David & Vicki Fleishhacker

Kerry Francis & John Jimerson

Jill & Steve Fugaro

Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff

Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer

Marcia Grand

Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau

Dugan & Philippe Lamoise

The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

Sandra & Ross McCandless

Gisele & Kenneth F. Miller

Sudha Pennathur & Edward Messerly

Jack & Betty Schafer

Pat & Merrill Shanks

Michael & Sue Steinberg

The Strauch Kulhanjian Family

Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson

Gail & Arne Wagner

Linda & Steve Wolan

We thank the many individuals in our community who help Berkeley Rep produce adventurous, thought-provoking, and thrilling theatre and bring arts education to thousands of people every year. We gratefully recognize our donors at the Champion level and above, who made their gifts between September 1, 2023, and February 3, 2025. We also express our deep gratitude to all of the Friends of Berkeley Rep that we are unable to recognize here due to space limitations.

Sponsors Circle

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS

Anonymous

Stephen & Susan Chamberlin

Yogen & Peggy Dalal

Bruce Golden & Michelle Mercer

Jonathan Logan & John Piane

The Strauch Kulhanjian Family

Gail & Arne Wagner

SEASON SPONSORS

Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau

Wayne Jordan & Quinn Delaney

Gisele & Kenneth F. Miller

Jack & Betty Schafer

Kelli & Steffan Tomlinson

LEAD SPONSORS

Barbara Bass Bakar

Jill & Steve Fugaro

Marcia Grand

Mary Ruth Quinn & Scott Shenker

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS

Christina Crowley

Anne & Anuj Dhanda

Christopher Doane & Neal Shorstein, MD

Robin & Rich Edwards

Bill Falik & Diana Cohen

Kerry Francis & John Jimerson

Dr. Daniel F. Goodman

Melinda Haag & Chuck Fanning

Scott & Sherry Haber

Fred Levin

Melanie Maier

Sandra & Ross McCandless

Sudha Pennathur & Edward Messerly

Leonard X & Arlene B. Rosenberg

Todd Rubin

Pat & Merrill Shanks

Michael & Sue Steinberg

Jean Strunsky

Chris & Mike Rupp, Descendant Cellars

Steven & Linda Wolan

SPONSORS

Anonymous (2)

Shelley & Jonathan Bagg

Anna Bellomo & Josh Bloom

Walter Brown

David & Vicki Cox

William T. Espey & Margaret Hart Edwards

Paul Friedman & Diane Manley

Karen Galatz & Jon Wellinghoff

Steven Goldin

Artistic Director’s Circle

PARTNER

Anonymous (3)

Valerie Barth

Linda Brown

Italo & Susan Calpestri

Jennifer Chaiken & Sam Hamilton

John Dains

Venus David, in memory of Narsai David

Bill DeHart

Richard DeNatale & Craig Latker

Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette-Edwards

Sandra & Ken Eggers

Jerry Falk

Linda Jo Fitz

Lisa Franzel & Rod Mickels

Karen Grove & Julian Cortella

Earl & Bonnie Hamlin

Lisa Herrinton

Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley

The Jackson Family Foundation

Teresa Kersten

Duke & Daisy Kiehn

Joel Linzner & Teresa Picchi

Rosa Luevano & Charles Marston

Elsie Mallonee

Mona Marbach

Marymor Family Fund

Judy Minor

Juan Oldham & Deborah Morgan

Sandi & Dick Pantages

Lauri Paul & Mark Hamilton

Jeannie Pfaelzer & Peter Panuthos

Johanna Pfaelzer & Russell Champa

Jaimie Sanford & Ted Storey

Emily Shanks

Trevor & Anne-Marie Strohman

Ama Torrance & David Davies

Larry Vales

Sarah Van Roo

Elizabeth Werter & Henry Trevor

BENEFACTOR

Anonymous (4)

Norman Abramson, in memory of David Beery

Eric Allman & Kirk McKusick

Philip Arca & Sherry Smith

George & Marcia Argyris

Michelle L. Barbour

Becky & Jeff Bleich

Ashvini Bhave & Kishore Bopardikar

Paul Brody

Ronnie Caplane

Ardie & Mary Clark, in memory of Patricia Fox

Lisa Conte

Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor

Paul Haahr & Susan Karp

Rick Hoskins & Lynne Frame

Rosalind & Sung-Hou Kim

Jack Klingelhofer

Suzanne LaFetra Collier

Erin McCune

Pam & Mitch Nichter

Jack & Valerie Rowe

Barbara Sahm & Steven Winkel

Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro

Joan Sarnat & David Hoffman

Sargina & Marc Silvani

Cynthia & William Schaff

Ed & Liliane Schneider

Felicia Woytak & Steven Rasmussen

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS

Anonymous (5)

Edith Barschi & Robert Jackson

Marc Blakeman

Jeffrey & Karen Breslow

Lynne Carmichael

Cindy J. Chang, MD & Christopher Hudson

Cynthia A. Farner

David & Vicki Fleishhacker

Laura Graham

Dr. Jim Cuthbertson

Barbara & Tim Daniels

Arvada Darnell

Richard & Anita Davis

Ilana DeBare & Sam Schuchat

Corinne & Mike Doyle

William & Susan Epstein

Paul Feigenbaum & Judy Kemeny

James & Jessica Fleming

James & Jessica Fleming

Dean Francis

Sharon & Tom Francis

Herb & Marianne Friedman

Dennis & Susan Johann Gilardi

Mio & Jon Good

Mary W Graves

Robert & Judith Greber

Anne & Peter Griffes

Migsy & Jim Hamasaki

Jeannene Hansen

Bob & Linda Harris

Dan & Shawna Hartman Brotsky

Henry L. Hecht

Elaine Hitchcock

Stan Hoffman

Bill Hofmann & Robbie Welling

Paula Hughmanick

& Steven Berger

Carla Javits

& Margaret Cecchetti

Marilyn & Michael Jensen-Akula

Muriel Kaplan & Bob Sturm

Elise Haas

Richard N. Hill & Nancy Lundeen

Duke & Daisy Kiehn

Duke & Daisy Kiehn

Dugan & Philippe Lamoise

Eileen & Hank Lewis

Susan & Moses Libitzky

Helen M. Marcus, in memory of

David J. Williamson

Phyra McCandless & Angelos Kottas

Martin & Margi Cellucci McNair

Seth Mickenberg & Alfredo Silva

Julie Moreland

Tom Parrish & Steve Dow

Norman & Janet Pease

Sue Reinhold & Deborah Newbrun

Audrey & Paul L. Richards, in honor of Barbara Peterson

David S. H. Rosenthal & Vicky Reich

Dennis Ryan & Rebecca Sutter-Ryan

Monica Salusky & John K. Sutherland

Sarah E. Shaver

Karen Smyda

Shirlen Fund

Audrey & Bob Sockolov

Barbara Tomber

Wendy Williams

Bill & Lisa Kelly

Dana Kirkland

Peggy Kivel

Jane & Mike Larkin in memory of Lynn & Gerald Ungar

Sherrill Lavagnino & Scott McKinney

Andrew Leavitt & Catherine Lewis

Ellen & Barry Levine

Marcia C. Linn

Jay & Eileen Love

Gerry & Kathy MacClelland

Luna Foundation

Susanna & Brad Marshland

Rebecca Martinez

Henning Mathew

Miles & Mary Ellen McKey

Susan Mazzetti

Susie Medak & Greg Murphy

Robin Meezan

Stephanie Mendel

Carol Mimura & Jeremy Thorner

Andy & June Monach

Ronald Morrison

Shanna O'Hare & John Davis

Carol J. Ormond

Janet & Clyde Ostler

Judy O’Young, MD & Gregg Hauser

Barbara L. Peterson

Leslie & Mark Ragsdale

Dr. Jason Ravenel

& Leann Ravenel

Terri Remillard

Carla & David Riemer

Gary & Noni Robinson

Patrick Romani

Becky Saeger & Tom Graves

Jeane & Roger Samuelsen

Dan Scharlin & Sara Katz

Jackie Schmidt-Posner & Barry Posner

Ruchira Shah & David Grunwald

David & Lori Simpson

Allan & Maria Smith

Ed & Ellen Smith

Henry Spencer & Nicky Cass

Alison Teeman & Michael Yovino-Young

Henry Timnick

Deborah & Bob Van Nest

Marcia & David Vastine

Gerald & Lynda Vurek-Martyn

Brian Watt & Daisy Nguyen

Beth Weissman

Susan West

Patricia & Jeffrey Williams

Faye Wilson

Mark Zitter & Jessica Nutik Zitter

Friends of Berkeley Rep

CHAMPION

Anonymous (4) • Linda & Mike Baker • Celia Bakke • Michael Barnett and Judith Bloomberg • Don & Gerry Beers • Paul Bendix

• Eric Brink & Gayle Vassar • Fran Burgess • Robert & Margaret Cant • Stacey Carlo • Dr. Jon Carr • Keith & Maria Carson • Terri Clark and Marty Lay • Bart Connally • Constance Crawford • Karen & David Crommie • Josh Dapice • Richard & Anita Davis • Jacqueline Desoer • Carol DiFilippo • Joan M. Dove & Jim Daughn • Donald and Jeannette Dow • Ben & Mary Feinberg • Donald & Dava Freed • Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter • Mary Grogan • Sylvaine Guille • Thomas & Elizabeth Henry • Mr. Robert and Judy

Huret • May Johnston • Sudhir Kasanavesi • Susan Kolb • Janet

Kornegay & Dan Sykes • Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz • Mark & Roberta Linsky • Lois & Gary Marcus, in memory of Ruth Weiland, Mose & Selma Marcus • Paul Mariano & Suzanne Chapot • Geri Monheimer • Mina Morita • Jane Neilson • Judy Ogle • Judith & Richard Oken

• Bob & MaryJane Pauley • Kathleen Quenneville & Diane Allen • Tushar Ranchod • Todd & Susan Ringoen • John & Jody Roberts • Mitzi K. Sales • Lisa A. Salomon • Helen Schulak • Deborah Sedberry & Jeff Klingman • Susan Shafton • Laura Shennum • Amrita Singhal & Michael Tubach • Suzanne Slyman

• Betsy Smith • Cherida Collins Smith • Valerie Sopher • Jane & Jay

Taber Sam Test • Annie Ulevitch • William van Dyk & Margi

Sullivan • Kimberly Webb & Richard Rossi • Jonathan & Kiyo Weiss

• Susan Whitman & Mark Gergen • Irene Yen

ADVOCATE

Anonymous (16) • David Ahirhima • David Baer • Paula Bakalar • Alisa Baker • Irene Balcar • Linda Barron • Steven Beckendorf • Richard & Kathi Berman • Veronica Bettencourt • Patti Bittenbender • Brent Blackaby • Mark & Peggy Bley • James Blume & Kathryn Frank • Judy Blumenstein • Thomas Bosserman • Cathy Bristow • John Brennan & Stephanie McKown • Cathy Bristow

• John Brorsen • Aimee Brown • Jane V. Buerger • John Bundschuh & Deborah Sorondo • Robert P. Camm & Susan Pearson • Bruce Carlton • Daren Chan • Steven and Karin Chase • Laura Chenel • Barbara & Rodgin Cohen • Joan & Edward Conger • Cathy Corison and William Martin • Pam & Mike Crane • Rajen Dalal • Harry & Susan Dennis • Kathryn Doi • Lynne Dombrowski • Joe & Lisa Downes • Tammerlin Drummond • Daralyn Durie • Kevin Eggan • Sue J. Estey • Paul Finkle & Sue DeVinny • Martin & Barbara Fishman • James & Jessica Fleming • Carol & Tony Friscia • Chris R. Frostad • Lisa and Jack Fuchs Brett Gardner & Joe Stampleman • Rachel Garlin • Clara Gerdes & Ken Greenberg • Clara Gerdes & Ken Greenberg • Ellen Geringer & Chris Tarp Steven Goldberg & Sandee Blechman • Paul Goldstein & Dena Mossar • Judy & Sheldon Greene • Mark Greenstein • Karen Greig & Mike Frank • Don & Becky Grether • George P. Haley • Dennis & Juanita Harte • Paula Hawthorn & Michael Ubell Geoffrey Haynes • Tamra C. Hege • Jim

Helman & Linda Fried Helman • Donald Hershman • Al Hoffman & David Shepherd • Rachel & John Horsch • Hilary & Tom Hoynes • Maria Inchauspe • Patricia J. Ishiyama • Atsuko Jenks • Barbara & Peter Jensen • Alan Karras & David Schulz • Leslie Karren • Jeanne Killian • Ralph & Tonya Koenker • Lynn Eve Komaromi, in honor of the Berkeley Rep Staff • Diana & Jim Krampf • Andrea & Kenneth Krueger Juanita Kizor • Jennifer Kuenster & George Miers • Lucy Kuntz and Ned Fielden • Kevin & Claudine Lally • Wayne Lamprey & Dena Watson-Lamprey • Shirley Langlois • Susan Carol Ledford • Elizabeth Lewis • David Lindsay & Maggie

Ingalls • Jennifer S. Lindsay • Ari Lipsky & David Nahmias • Steve & Judy • Lipson Tom Lockard & Alix Marduel • Margo & Josh Lowensohn • Peter Luk • Nancy Lumer • Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch • Rob and Diane Master • Don Mathews • M. Mathews & K. Soriano • Kevin McCarty • Amelie Mel de Fontenay • Ellen Meltzer and George Porter • Melinda & Ralph Mendelson • Zoe MercerGolden, in honor of Bruce Golden • Susan Morris • Ron Nakayama • Sandra Nichols • Daniel Null & Karen Williams Null • James O'Toole • Lynne Parode & Sterling Lim • Perttula Family • Patti Oji Haas • Malcolm & Ann Plant • Robert & Marcia Popper • Daniel & Barbara Radin • Elizabeth Raffin • Jackie Lynn Ray • Kalpana Reddy • Maxine Risley, in memory of James Risley • Michael Rocha • William Rogers • Shasta Roope • Tonya Roope • Deborah Dashow Ruth, in memory of Leo P. Ruth • Eve Saltman & Skip Roncal, in honor of Kerry Francis & John Jimerson • Dorothy Saxe • Eric & Lauren Schlezinger • Teddy & Bruce Schwab • J Deborah Sedberry & Jeff Klingman • Jacob Sevart • Emily D. Sexton • Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D. • Steve & Susan Shortell • Beryl & Ivor Silver • Robert Sinha • Linda Snyder • Gary & Jana Stein • Carol Sundell • Margo & Drew Tammen • Kathy Taylor • Ruthann Taylor • John & Christine Telischak • Pate & Judy Thomson • Karen Tiedemann & Geoff Piller • Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita • Glenn Urban • Jill Van Dalen • Leon Van Steen • Benny & Liz Varon • Dick & Beany Wezelman • Faye Wilson • Galen Wilson • Barbara & Mordechai Winter • H. Leabah Winter • Susan Wittenberg • Molly Wood • Wilma Wool • Moe & Becky Wright • Ned Zlatarev

The Michael Leibert Legacy Society

Berkeley Rep gratefully acknowledges the following individuals who have generously provided for the theatre in their estate plans:

Anonymous (9)

Norman Abramson & David Beery*

Sam Ambler

Carl W. Arnoult & Aurora Pan

Ken & Joni Avery

Nancy Axelrod

Edie Barschi

Neil & Gene Barth

Susan & Barry Baskin

Linda Brandenburger

Broitman-Basri Family

Bruce Carlton & Richard G. McCall*

Stephen K. Cassidy

Paula Champagne & David Watson

Terin Christensen

Sofia Close

Ed Cullen & Ann O’Connor

Andrew Daly & Jody Taylor

Narsai* & Venus David

Darren & Sunshine Deffner

M. Laina Dicker

Christopher Doane & Neal Shorstein, MD

Christopher Doane & Neal Shorstein, MD

Thalia Dorwick

Robin & Rich Edwards

Thomas W. Edwards

& Rebecca Parlette-Edwards

Bill & Susan Epstein

William Espey

& Margaret Hart Edwards

Bill Falik & Diana Cohen

Dr. Stephen E. Follansbee & Dr. Richard A. Wolitz

Catherine Fox

Kerry Francis

Dr. Harvey & Deana Freedman

Joseph & Antonia Friedman

Paul T. Friedman

Marianne Friedman

David Gaskin & Phillip McPherson*

Marjorie Ginsburg & Howard Slyter

Mary & Nicholas* Graves

Elizabeth Greene

Sheldon & Judy Greene

Don & Becky Grether

Barry* & Micheline Handon

Julie & Paul Harkness

Linda & Bob Harris

Fred Hartwick

Ruth Hennigar

Daria Hepps

Douglas J. Hill*

Peter Hobe & Christina Crowley

Hoskins/Frame Family Trust

Lynda & Dr. J. Pearce Hurley

Robin C. Johnson

Janice Kelly & Carlos Kaslow

Bonnie McPherson Killip

Lynn Eve Komaromi

Michael H. Kossman

Woof Kurtzman

Joy Lancaster & Martin Freedman

Scott & Kathy Law

Marcia C. Linn

Dot Lofstrom

Ingrid Madsen & Victor Rauch

Andrew Maguire

Helen M. Marcus

Dale* & Don Marshall

Rebecca Martinez

Sarah McArthur LeValley

Sandra & Ross McCandless

Suzanne & Charles McCulloch

John G. McGehee

Miles & Mary Ellen McKey

Ruth Medak

Susie Medak & Greg Murphy

Stephanie Mendel

Toni Mester

Shirley & Joe Nedham

Jane & Bill Neilson

Theresa Nelson & Bernard Smits

Pam & Mitch Nichter

Wallace Oman

Sharon Ott

Fr. David Pace

Amy Pearl Parodi

Barbara L. Peterson

Regina Phelps

Margaret Phillips

Mark J. Powers & Albert E. Moreno

Marjorie Randolph

Gregg Richardson

Bonnie Ring Living Trust

David Rovno, M.D.

Tracie E. Rowson

Deborah Dashow Ruth

Patricia Sakai & Richard Shapiro

Brenda Buckhold Shank, M.D., Ph.D.

Emily Shanks

Valerie Sopher

Michael & Sue Steinberg

Dr. Douglas & Anne Stewart

Jean Strunsky

Mary, Andrew & Duncan Susskind

Jim Tibbs & Philip Anderson

Henry Timnick

Guy Tiphane

Dana Tom & Nancy Kawakita

Phillip & Melody Trapp

Janis Kate Turner

Gail & Arne Wagner

Barry & Holly Walter

Weil Family Trust - Weil Family

Susan West

Steven & Linda Wolan

The Woolfson Blumenfeld

Living Trust

Karen & Henry Work

Anders Yang, JD

Martin & Margaret Zankel

* deceased

GIFTS RECEIVED BY BERKELEY REP

Estate of Suzanne Adams

Estate of Pat Angell, in memory of theater architect Gene Angell

Estate of Nina Auerbach

Estate of Helen C. Barber

Estate of Fritzi Benesch

Estate of Carole B. Berg

Estate of Nelly Berteaux

Estate of Jill Bryans

Estate of Paula Carrell

Estate of Victoria Carter

Estate of Nancy Croley

Estate of John & Carol Field

Estate of Ralph Garrow

Estate of Richard & Lois Halliday

Estate of Nancy Kornfield

Estate of Audrey J. Lasson

Estate of Zandra Faye LeDuff

Estate of Ines R. Lewandowitz

Estate of Jim Lillienthal

Estate of John E. & Helen A. Manning

Estate of Richard Markell

Estate of Sumner & Hermine Marshall

Estate of Margaret D. & Winton McKibben

Estate of Robert S. Newton, in honor of John T. & Jean Knox

Estate of Sheldeen G. Osborne

Estate of Timothy A. Patterson

Estate of Gladys Perez-Mendez

Estate of Margaret Purvine

Estate of Guy T. Roberts, Jr.

Estate of Leigh & Ivy Robinson

Estate of Gretchen Saeger

Estate of Stephen C. Schaefer, in honor of Jean and Jack Knox

Estate of Kevin Shoemaker

Estate of Peter Sloss

Estate of Louis & Bonnie Spiesberger

Estate of Harry Weininger

Estate of Grace Williams

Estate of Sheila Wishek

As of February 2025.

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MAKING THEATRE

MEET THE ARTISANS WHO BUILD OUR SHOWS

BY CREATIVE DIRECTOR DC SCARPELLI

For the past two shows in the Roda Theatre — Here There Are Blueberries and The Thing About Jellyfish — Berkeley Rep has been privileged to have Derek McLane’s set designs grace our stage.

Among his vast collection of credits and accolades, McLane has two Tony Awards — for 2020’s Moulin Rouge! and 2009’s 33 Variations, also by Moisés Kaufman. Kaufman is a frequent collaborator. McLane, a member of Tectonic Theater Project’s Company of Artists, has worked with him as both playwright (One Arm, 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife, Juan Planchard, Here There Are Blueberries, and more) and director (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo..., The Heiress, and more). Often both at once.

Are

“Derek has incredible dexterity at finding theatrical vocabularies that accommodate realism but also accommodate a number of other aesthetics that can pierce through the heart of the text.” — Moisés Kaufman

Experience more of McLane’s (and many more set designers’) extraordinary work in his book, Designing Broadway, written with Eila Mell.

The cast of Here There Are Blueberries on the finished set.

Derek McLane’s set model for Here There

Blueberries

BY JIEHAE PARK DIRECTED BY KNUD ADAMS

O ering state-of-the-art assisted living and memory care, exquisite fine dining, and thoughtfully curated activities, The Ivy at Berkeley provides an unparalleled retirement lifestyle.

• 24/7 Personalized Care

• Sky Terrace & Lounge

• Fitness Center

• Transportation

AMENITIES & SERVICES

• Rejuvenation Spa

• Full-service Salon

• Art Studio

• Movie Theatre

• Indoor & Outdoor Dining

• Physical Therapy Studio

• Resident Gardens

• Laundry & Housekeeping