Michel Hausmann
artistic director
Nicholas Richberg managing director
with
Tectonic Theater Project Brian & Dayna Lee in association with Bruce Roberts/Sue Vaccaro/Ricky Stevens
Linda B. Rubin Gilbert & DeeDee Garcia Kathy & Gene Bernstein
Good Productions - Patty Baker Daren A.C. Carollo/Kyle Valentine
Botwin-Ignal JJ Powell Michael Lamon
InStone Productions Alex Robertson present
by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
conceived and directed by
Moisés Kaufman
A co-production with La Jolla Playhouse
featuring
Delia Cunningham, Kimberly S. Fairbanks, Christian Pedersen, Barb Pitts McAdams, Jonathan Raviv, Marrick Smith, Grant Varjas and Folami Williams
scenic design Derek Mclane
projections design David Bengali
production manager Ben Seibert
lighting design David Lander
creative producer Matt Joslyn
costume design Dede Ayite
associate director & dramaturg Amy Marie Seidel
casting TBD Casting / Stephanie Yankwitt
sound design Bobby McElver
production stage manager Jacob Russell
general manager Evan Bernardin Productions / Hillel Friedman
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
Delia Cunningham Rebecca Erbelding & others
Kimberly S. Fairbanks Melita Maschmann
Christian Pedersen
Karl Höcker & others
Barb Pitts McAdams Judy Cohen
Jonathan Raviv Tilman Taube & others
Marrick Smith Rainer Höss & others
Grant Varjas
Folami Williams
Sam Reeder
Anna J. Shafer
Peter Wirths & others
Charlotte Schüzel & others
Understudy (Karl, Rainer & others)
Understudy (Rebecca, Charlotte & Melita)
Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES RUNS 90 MINUTES WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, are strictly prohibited.
This production marks the homecoming of an extraordinary and improbable theatrical journey.
Almost ten years ago, my dear friend and collaborator Moisés Kaufman told me about an idea — a play inspired by a newly discovered photo album belonging to Nazi officials who worked at Auschwitz.
I consider myself a man of imagination, but at the time, I couldn’t quite fathom why such a gifted theater maker would want to explore that world. It felt like an anecdote. But I’ve learned never to underestimate Moisés.
Together with co-writer Amanda Gronich and the remarkable team at Tectonic Theater Project, he came to Miami to develop the piece that became part of our 2017–2018 season — then called The Album. We presented it as a work-in-progress, with the audience seated onstage.
Those few performances were transformative. The play was haunting and profoundly human, holding a mirror to who we are — at a time when extremist ideals were once again resurfacing in our world.
After its early life here, the piece continued to evolve in some of the nation’s most prestigious theaters, becoming a Pulitzer Prize finalist and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Plays of the Year.
For all of us at Miami New Drama, welcoming this play back to the Colony feels like closing a meaningful circle — a reminder that great theater begins with curiosity, grows through collaboration, and, if we’re lucky, finds its way home.
Michel Hausmann Artistic Director Miami New Drama
IS PART OF MIAMI NEW DRAMA’S Y6K JEWISH PLAY INITIATIVE AND IS PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
GARY L. WASSERMAN, WASSERMAN PROJECT AND STACEY MINDICH, MAILMAN FOUNDATION, ART & ILENE PENN, SANDRA SALIGMAN, DAN NIR & JILL BRAUFMAN, CAROLYN & PHIL PERELMUTER
MOISÉS KAUFMAN (Conceiver, Director, Co-Author) 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) is an Emmynominated, 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.
DELIA CUNNINGHAM (Rebecca Erbelding and others) National Tour: Ivo Van Hove’s A View From The Bridge; Off-Broadway: Someone Spectacular (Signature Theatre); Television: recurring appearances on Before (Apple TV+), City On Fire (Apple TV+), Paper Girls (Prime Video), and guest appearances on Madam Secretary and Elementary (CBS). Delia is a graduate of Northwestern University.
KIMBERLY S. FAIRBANKS (Melita Maschmann) has performed Off-Broadway at The Sheen Center, 59E59, & The Mint Theatre. Regionally: The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Crossroads Theater Company, Voyage Theater Company, Delaware Theatre Company, The Walnut Street Theater, The Wilma Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Azuka Theatre, The Arden
Theatre, and The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Internationally: The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 & 2016. TV/Film: Glass, The Upside, Brave the Dark; Recurring roles: Random Acts of Flyness, Law & Order, The Looming Tower, House of Cards, Do No Harm, and Cross. Guest star: FBI, Instinct, Elementary, and Madam Secretary Much love to my family & FOM. Learn more at: kimberlysfairbanks.com
CHRISTIAN PEDERSEN (Karl Höcker and others) most recently appeared in the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston’s Spunk at Yale Repertory Theatre. Other recent credits include Boeing Boeing and Dial M for Murder (Peterborough Players), Sherwood and Hamlet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Pride & Prejudice and Moriarty (Cleveland Play House), Ohio State Murders on Broadway, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco. TV: This is Us, The Offer, Superstore, SEAL Team, One Life to Live, and The Good Wife. Graduate of the University of Richmond and the NY Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.
BARB PITTS MCADAMS (Judy Cohen and others) is an original actor/co-creator of The Laramie Project (BAM, Union Square, LaJolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep) and appears in HBO Film’s adaptation (shared Emmy Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay). Recent theater: The Price (Shakespeare & Co), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Mona Pinot’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. Barb is the cocreator of heretooproject.com , amplifying youth activism through performance.
JONATHAN RAVIV (Tilman Taube and others) is an Emmy winner and original cast member of the 10-time Tony Award-winning musical, The Band’s Visit. Jonathan has extensive OffBroadway and Regional Theatre credits, having worked at some of the most prestigious theatres in the country.. He has also had several guest star appearances in major network television and film and has done extensive voice-over and motion capture work. He is thrilled to be reprising his role in this beautiful show.
MARRICK SMITH (Rainer Höss and others) is an NYC-based actor and audio engineer. Broadway: FunHome (OBC). National Tour: Dear Evan Hansen (OTC). Off Broadway: Pretty Filthy, Wild Goose Dreams (Public). TV: The Blacklist Regional: Fiddler, Forum (MUNY), Beautiful (Papermill). Film/TV “Scoring: Tuesday, The Screens, Macabre. Music Production: Kristen Plati, J.Riley Henderson, Sarah Morgan, and Sabrina Monique. FOH Mixing FOH: Ed Palermo, Marc Lettieri, Jimmy Vivino, Kofi Baker, Lee Rittenour. Love to Kayleigh and Leia.
GRANT JAMES VARJAS (Peter Wirths and others). Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theater Workshop), Twelve Dreams, The Common Pursuit (Roundabout), 33 to Nothing. Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (LaJolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater 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 Theatre Project, and faculty member at its Moment Work Institute.
FOLAMI WILLIAMS (Charlotte Schüzel and others) is a Brooklyn-based actor with an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. Recent credits include August Wilson’s Jitney (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Devil’s Disciple (OffBroadway), and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway). Other notable work includes Skeleton Crew (Portland Stage Company), The Comedy of Errors (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Julius Caesar and Othello (Classic Stage Company), and Noises Off (Bucks County Playhouse). As a physical actor specializing in experimental theatre, she’s developed new works with PigPen Theatre Company, Colt Coeur, and New York Theatre Workshop. TV credits include The Blacklist, Younger, Bull, and Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It. IG: @folamiwill
SAM REEDER (Understudy - Karl, Rainer & Others) 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 Theater 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
ANNA J. SHAFER (Understudy - Rebecca, Charlotte & Melita) lives, works, and teaches in Washington, DC. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries at New York Theater 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.
DEREK MCLANE (Scenic Design) Broadway designs: Just In Time, 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) 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 Design) 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 Theater and International Theatre and Opera. Awards: Two Tony Award Nominations, Five Drama Desk Awards - One win, among many others.
BOBBY MCELVER (Sound Design)
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 Design)
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 & Sensitivity Specialist) 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) is a NYC-based theater 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 Machinal at New York City Center as well as Here There Are Blueberries at Detroit Public Theatre. Additional assist/assoc director credits include: Paradise Square (Bway), The Great Gatsby (Bway) & Billie Jean (Chicago Shakes). www.amymarieseidel.com
STEPHANIE YANKWITT (Casting) tbd casting co. With Tectonic: Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla, STC, NYTW, National Tour), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (co-written by and starring Sasha Velour), and the upcoming concert reading of The Laramie Project at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre. Additional upcoming productions include: Watch Me Walk (Soho Rep/Playwrights Horizons), Jesa (Ma-Yi/The Public), The Emporium (Classic Stage Company), and the west coast premiere of Purpose at La Jolla Playhouse. tbd casting co. cast the award winning film In The Summers, which won the 2024 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, and was an official selection of Tribeca, Cartagena, and LA Liff Film Festival. Additional film credits in development include The Year of the Monarchs, Still Life and Petrichor. @tbdcastingco
JACOB RUSSELL (Stage Manager)
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) & Big Trip (La MaMa). Spirit of the People (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Velour: A Drag Spectacular (LJP), The Library (The Public Theater), Big 5-Oh Tour (Pilobolus).
M.F.A.: University of California, San Diego. For my grandfather, Bernie Halpern (1927-2022), who served as a cook in the Navy during WWII.
GILLIAN LELCHUK (Assistant Stage Manager) 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.
EVAN BERNARDIN PRODUCTIONS (General Manager) 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 Theater (DC), and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Educational work, teaching and mentoring include 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.
MOLLY TIEDE-SCHROER (Lighting Director & Associate Lighting Designer) has been with Blueberries since its 2022 stage debut at La Jolla Playhouse. A long-time 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 theaters, operas and major events across the country, spanning diverse stages and environments. www. mollytiededesign.com
(Producer) is a New York City-based developmental theater company founded in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman & Jeffrey LaHoste and led today by Kaufman and Matt Joslyn. 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 and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize winning play I Am My Own Wife, Kaufman’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ screenplay One Arm, The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Tony Award-winning 33 Variations (which starred Jane Fonda on Broadway), and the immersive theatrical event Seven Deadly Sins presented in New York City’s Meatpacking District. Tectonic’s newest play, Here There Are Blueberries, written by Kaufman and company member Amanda Gronich, was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and winner of the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Production. In 2016, Kaufman was awarded the United States National Medal of Arts by President Obama. Tectonic’s method of devising theater is codified in the Random House book Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Making Theater. Tectonic’s plays have been translated into more than 25 languages and are consistently performed around the world.
BRIAN & DAYNA LEE (Producer) are a husband and wife team and the founders of AF Creative Media, a three-time Tony Award and two-time Olivier Award-winning production company. The couple was recently included in Variety’s prestigious 2025 “Broadway 10 to Watch” list and were dubbed “Power Producers” by Forbes earlier this year. West End: Giant (Olivier Award), Fiddler On The Roof (Olivier Award), Moulin Rouge London (Upcoming): Man To Man starring Tilda Swinton, Guess How Much I Love You?, The Shitheads, Archduke (Royal Court Theatre) and Broken Glass (Young Vic). Broadway: Giant (Upcoming Spring 2026), Company (Tony Award), Moulin Rouge (Tony Award), Angels in America (Tony Award), Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, The Who’s Tommy, Funny Girl and Dead Outlaw. OffBroadway: Caroline (MCC Theatre), Here There Are Blueberries (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lucille Lortel Award), Man To Man (New York, Spring 2027), Becoming Eve (Drama League and Drama Desk Nominated). Film: Executive Producing Jeremiah Zagar’s The Painted Bride starring
Jeremy Allen White, Mandy Patinkin and Isabella Rossellini, The Housewife starring Naomi Watts and Luke Evans and Triumph of the Will starring Shira Hass. Brian and Dayna have recently announced a multi-year, exclusive First Look Deal with the Royal Court Theatre in London, launching in 2026. In partnership with the Royal Court, they will bring productions to wider audiences- carrying the theatre’s extraordinary legacy from its iconic Sloane Square home to the bright lights of the West End, Broadway, and beyond. Brian and Dayna run a popular Instagram blog called @artsfoodfamily with over 127k followers, where they share their journey navigating their way through the Big Apple. Their greatest achievement to date has been their amazing children, Ella & Emmy and Ezra.
BRUCE ROBERTS (Co-Producer) Thrilled to help bring Blueberries to a wider audience. For over 35 years, Bruce has produced and managed 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 Fortune 500 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, nominated for the Mary Austin Women in Film Award, and threetime nominee for Producer of the Year. Her credits include the Tony-nominated New York New York and Two Strangers on Broadway, the widely acclaimed London revival of Smokey Joes’ Cafe, and Rue McLanahan’s My First Five Husbands. As a Film Producer, Sue won Best Comedy at the New York Film Festival for Ron & Laura. Her greatest success will always be her children, their wives, and her beloved grandchildren.
RICKY STEVENS (Co-Producer) has worked in the theater 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.
SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (CoProducer) is one of the most prolific and influential theatre companies in the world. Since it was established in 2002, SFP has developed, initiated and produced over 300 productions worldwide, winning 67 Olivier Awards, 61 Tony Awards and 3 BAFTAs. Current productions include: The Book of Mormon (West End, UK and International tour); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End, Broadway, Hamburg, Tokyo and North American tour); Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a co-production with Netflix (West End, Broadway); Paddington The Musical (West End). Visit soniafriedman.com for full details.
LINDA B. RUBIN (Co-Producer) Since 2018, 8x Tony Award Winner. Currently B’way: Ragtime, Oedipus, The Outsiders, and Hadestown Spring 2026: Giant. US Tours: The Outsiders & Stereophonic. Most recently: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole at NYTW. West End shows include The Importance of Being Earnest, Hadestown, Stereophonic, Giant, Fiddler on the Roof, Till the Stars Come Down, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Dear England, The Motive and the Cue, Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical and Mandela at The Young Vic. Devoted USHMM supporter / Rubin Yearly L.A. Lecture Series.
GILBERT & DEEDEE GARCIA (Co-Producer) are thrilled to be producing the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Here There Are Blueberries. The Garcias have been involved in numerous plays, including Tina, and being Co-Producers of New York New York. Gilbert is the Managing Partner of Garcia Hamilton & Associates, a $25 billion fixed income money management firm as of 9/30/25, and DeeDee is a retired Optometrist. They live in Houston, love live theater, 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, and previously served on the board of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Kathy had a career in the investment industry, working with institutional clients, including endowments, foundations and corporate pension funds. Since retiring in 2013, she has served on the board of Theatre for a New Audience (where she is vice chair) and on the board of the University of Connecticut Foundation.
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.
NEXTSTAGE PRODUCTIONS was founded in 2008 as Carollo & Palumbo LLC, when longtime friends and frequent theatrical collaborators Daren A.C. Carollo and Michael Palumbo joined forces. Highlights of their collaboration include co-producing the musical Bare Off-Broadway at New World Stages in 2012, and investing in the Broadway productions of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical in 2024, and A Time to Kill in 2013. Daren is a director, producer, stage manager, and proud father. Michael is a lighting designer and canine enthusiast. NextStage’s current projects include Unblinking Eye, The Ask, and Open, Stay. Web: nextstageproductions.com
KYLE VALENTINE (Co-Producer) is a Tonynominated producer. Broadway: Good Night and Good Luck, John Proctor Is The Villain (Tony Nomination), Dog Day Afternoon. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (Lucille Lortel Award), Gruesome Playground Injuries. London: coming soon! Love to Ariana.
2 ON THE AISLE BDWY (Co-Producer) are Ellen Botwin and Howard Ignal, a married couple: Broadway- Just In Time, Chess, Sunset Blvd, Cabaret, Merrily We Roll Along, Parade, The Who’s Tommy, Company, Funny Girl: Upcoming- Giant, Regency Girls. WEST
END: Current and upcoming- The Producers, Paddington: The Musical, Jo: The Little Women Musical. We are thrilled and honored to be involved in Blueberries and its exposure of the banality of evil.
JJ POWELL (Co-Producer) is CEO of Neptune Theatrical Productions. Hailing from a bright career in the legal industry, he has successfully produced hits including Merrily We Roll Along, Sunset Blvd., Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and Damn Yankees. He is a two-time Tony Awardwinning producer and Olivier winner. He has been nominated for an American Grammy Award and is an executive producer on the Merrily movie, which is set to open on December 5th. He and his company are proud to be on the producing team of the poignant and timely tale of Here There Are Blueberries, which masterfully narrates the fight of justice against evil; a tale that must be told far and wide to avoid falling into the echoing mistakes of our current historical trajectory.
MICHAEL LAMON (Co-Producer) is a Tony Award® Winning producer and Purple Heart recipient. Leveraging his background, he advocates for and facilitates theatre access for veterans, service members, and their families. Broadway credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Tony), Operation Mincemeat, Chess, Heathers (Off-Bway), and Giant (2026). West End credits include Evita and Fiddler on the Roof. Upcoming: By the End of Tonight (in development). Michael lives in NYC with his wife, Julia (@julia_lamon_ soprano), and their two children, Livia and Titus <3 @michael_l_lamon
INSTONE PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer)
Dan Stone is a passionate producer who has spent the past decade helping to bring important stories to theaters 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 an award-winning creative producer and entrepreneur. Select Broadway producing credits include: BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; GYPSY; Floyd Collins; SMASH; 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. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries; Beau; Heathers; Table 17; KOWALSKI; and Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter. He founded Emlex Entertainment and co-founded DMQR Productions, focusing on innovative storytelling and creative development. Learn more at A-Robertson.com, 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.
MICHEL HAUSMANN (Artistic Director) is a Venezuelan-born theater director, producer, and writer. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Miami New Drama, the resident company and operator of the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. Under his artistic leadership, Miami New Drama has produced over 20 world premiere plays and musicals, including A Wonderful World (Broadway transfer), Birthright (OffBroadway transfer Summer ‘26), Bad Dog (also Director), Lincoln Road Hustle (also Director), Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard (in co-production with Tectonic Theatre Company) Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy (also Director), ¡Viva La Parranda!, The Cubans, Fake, When Monica Met Hillary, Gente Ociosa (also Director), Queen Of Basel (also Director), 7 Deadly Sins (also Director), and the first multilingual production of Our Town (also Director), among many others. Michel is the book writer and director of The Golem of Havana, a critically acclaimed original musical that has been produced across the country, including a sold-out extended run at the Colony Theatre. Hausmann’s Off-Broadway credits include the New York Premiere of Vassily Sigarev’s Black Milk and the New York premiere of The Color of Desire by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nilo Cruz. He was the co-founder and Artistic Director of an award-winning theater company in Venezuela, where he directed over a dozen productions. Michel received a BA from Emerson College and an MFA in Theater Directing from Columbia University. He is a Drama League Award winner, a Thornton Wilder
Prize recipient, a New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellow, an IRNE nominee, a Silver Palm Award winner, a Richard Rodgers Award finalist, and a three-time Knights Arts Challenge Award recipient.
NICHOLAS RICHBERG (Managing Director) is a Cuban-American award-winning producer, actor, and nonprofit executive who has received recognition for a broad range of work. Under his executive leadership Miami New Drama has produced A Wonderful World (Broadway transfer), 7 Deadly Sins (Creative Producer, Drama League Award), The Museum Plays, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard (co-production with Tectonic Theatre Project), Dangerous Days, Two Sisters and a Piano, The Cubans, When Monica Met Hillary, The Cuban Vote, Elián, Create Dangerously, Papá Cuatro, and the twentieth-anniversary production of Anna in the Tropics. He previously served as Managing Director of Zoetic Stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, where he produced numerous world premiere and awardwinning plays and musicals. As an actor and director, Richberg has appeared on national television, radio, and in theaters and concert venues across the country, originating numerous roles, including in Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy at Miami New Drama prior to his tenure as Managing Director. He is a Drama League Award winner, Carbonell Award winner, multiple Silver Palm Award winner, twice named Best Actor by Miami New Times, and was named a Miami Leader by the Miami Foundation. A Miami native, Richberg is a graduate of Miami Country Day School and University of Miami Frost School of Music. He also holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Duke University and a dual MBA from IE University (Madrid) and Brown University, for which he received a Scholarship for Distinguished Leadership.
MIAMI NEW DRAMA is a nonprofit professional theater company based in Miami Beach, Florida, committed to artistic excellence and groundbreaking work, with a vision of theater as a powerful form of social engagement. In residence at the historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach, the company focuses on the development of new plays and musicals in both English and Spanish, most notably 7 Deadly Sins, winner of the 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater, the world premiere development of the new Louis Armstrong musical A Wonderful World, which has made its Broadway opening at Studio 54 in New York, Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, the innovative collaboration The Museum Plays conceived and directed by Michel hausmann, performed at the Rubell Museum, Papá Cuatro conceived by Juan Souki, the 20th anniversary production of Anna in the Tropics written and directed by Nilo Cruz, When Monica Met Hillary by Winter Miller, The Cuban Vote by Carmen Pelaez, Puras Cosas Maravillosas by Duncan Macmillan, the first ever multilingual adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town, The Cubans by Michael Leon, Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy by Billy Corben & Aurin Squire, Queen of Basel by Hilary Bettis, ¡Viva La Parranda! by Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo in collaboration with Juan Souki, and Gente Ociosa by Karin Valecillos. Miami New Drama is the winner of two Knight Arts Challenge awards and a Knight New Works Miami award from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It was the 2018 and 2022 Miami New Times Best Theater for Drama and was honored with the Thornton Wilder Prize in 2022.
EQUITY
(AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
Company Manager
Erica Miller
Assistant Stage Manager
Gillian Lelchuk
Intimacy Coordinator & Sensitivity Specialist
Ann James
Technical Director
Jackie Young
Lighting Director
Molly Tiede-Schroer
A1
Stephen Simpson
Associate Costume Designer
Niaamar Felder
Associate Lighting Designer
Molly Tiede
Associate Sound Designer
Salvador Zamora
Systems Engineer
Peter Brucker
Lighting Programmer and Master
Electrician
Wylder Cooper
Projection Programmer
Jerran Kowalski
Projection and Sound Equipment
provided by Sound Associates
Lighting Equipment provided by PRG
CREW
Head Electrician and Production Coordinator
Jonathan Bulgini
A2
Quiana Major
Assistant Head Electrician and Light Board Operator
Shawn Denoun
Head Audio
Rafael Otero
Projections Operator
Aidan Gordon
Production Carpenter
Jacob Majewski
Technical Director
Alfonso Rey
Wardrobe Supervisor
Saul Mendoza
Wardrobe
Xen Ni
Vera Francheschi
Props
Isabella García
Load-in Crew
Nicholas Harvey
Brandon Johnson
Joekivia “Jojo” Johnson
Miguel Machado
Ruddy Victor
Charles R Powell
Willete Dixon
Stanley Thetis
Erin Cash
Joshua Nunez
David Tineo
David de Sola
Jasmine K. West
Jonathan Boza
Orlando Ramos
Marketing
Ian Torres, TMA
Graphic Design
Manuel González Ruiz,
Mago Atelier
Public Relations
Dina Allende, Clique PR
MIAMI NEW DRAMA STAFF
Artistic Director
Michel Hausmann
Managing Director
Nicholas Richberg
General Manager
Stefanie Anarumo
Director of Education
Vyana Preti
Development Director
Lucas Metropulos
Controller
Suzette Reagan
Technical Director
Alfonso Rey
Media & Communications Manager
Kelly Gonzalez
Company & Rentals Manager
Shannon Veguilla
Box Office & Member Services Manager
Karen Figueredo
House Manager
Nat Denoun
Education Coordinator
Natalia Dubón
Box Office Assistant Manager
Carolina Ortiz
Box Office Associates
Emalie Belokon
Carolina Ortiz
Josie Samoza
Ushers
Quinn Colon
Janiaya Forbs
Annette Fromm
Trico Fullerton
Dylan Grimes
Allison Lucas
Parsa Sadjadi
Elisa Saether
Beltran Ulloa
Custodial Manager
Yolanda Pittman
Custodial Team
Clarissa Pittman
Deldrick Pittman
Jonathan Pittman
MIAMI NEW DRAMA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
David Michael Scharlin Co-Chair
Stacey Mindich Co-Chair
Charles Million Vice Chair
Alexander Galsky Treasurer
Yael Muller
Secretary
Rudy Aragon
Steven Bandel
Lawrence Gragg
Maureen Gragg
Nicholas Griffin
James Harrison
Michel Hausmann
Nick Leone
Helene Lindenfeld
Martin Lindenfeld
Eduardo Muller
Enrique Norton
Carolyn Perelmuter
Amy Scharlin
André Williams
MOISÉS KAUFMAN ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MATT JOSLYN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Cary Bland Simpson General Manager
Leigh Fondakowski Chair of the Moment Work Institute
Jeffrey LaHoste Director of International Programs
Zena Hinds Director of Development & Special Projects
Evan Bernardin Production General Management
Ben Seibert Production Management Consultant
Katie Wagner Executive Assistant
Ido Gal Associate Producer
Nicole Dancel Marketing Consultant
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, Aaron Walton, Timothy Wu, Kevin Jennings (Founding Chair).
The creation of Here There Are Blueberries was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) 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 theaters who are sharing its powerful messages. www.faspe-ethics.org
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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.
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• Annika & Dmitry Savill
• Ariella Lindenfeld
• Arlene Easley
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HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES is presented, in material part, due to the support provided by the City of Miami Beach.
