In This Program

• For Our Patrons
• From the Artistic Director
• About the Show
• Cast
• Creative Team
• Tectonic Theater Project’s Content and Conversation Partner for Here There Are Blueberries
• Beyond the Stage: The Album & The Investigation
• Deepen the Conversation: Return for Appropriate
• On Stage This Spring
• Print Edition
• More About Seattle Rep

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Seattle Rep. As our region’s leading producing resident theater founded in 1963, it has been our long-standing mission to collaborate with extraordinary artists to create timely and relevant productions that feature local theater makers working alongside peers from around the world on plays made here in Seattle. And, as with today’s performance, we have an important history of hosting the national tours of distinctly crafted, can’t-miss theater pieces, like last season’s Eddie Izzard Hamlet or the Montreal-based cirque performance collective The 7 Fingers and their jaw-dropping show Duel Reality. Today, we are privileged to host the esteemed Tectonic Theater Project’s unforgettable and urgently relevant Here There Are Blueberries.

I’m grateful you are here to experience this deeply moving and renowned exploration of memory, history, and responsibility. Tectonic’s bold, investigative approach to storytelling invites audiences to witness and wrestle with questions at the center of our humanity. Their work has shaped contemporary theater for nearly three decades, from the groundbreaking The Laramie Project, a revealing portrait of a Wyoming community’s response to the hateful murder of Matthew Shepard, to the centuries-spanning investigation of Beethoven’s genius 33 Variations, which earned Tony Award nominations and Broadway acclaim.

Tectonic’s productions have continually expanded the possibilities of theater-making using their trademark “Moment Work,” which incorporates a rigorous process of research and collaboration in a laboratory environment. In Here There Are Blueberries, writer-director Moisés Kaufman and co-writer Amanda Gronich have crafted a drama that is a meticulously researched and gripping detective story. The work begins with a discovery made in 2007 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a photo album unexpectedly donated to the archives, containing images not of victims, but snapshots of perpetrators. In the play, we join the curators in their examination of the album, and the reflection the photographs provoke within us. How do we see those who commit harm if they resemble us? What do we allow ourselves to ignore? How does complicity take root?

The impact of this stirring production has been profound, with a sold-out New York premiere, and a tour spanning continents. Here There Are Blueberries was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist, winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, two-time Helen Hayes Award winner, and was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s “10 Best Plays of 2024.” These honors recognize not only its artistry but its urgency. We’re proud to present the play’s Seattle premiere and look forward to the conversations that will ensue.

I hope you will return soon for the spring side of our season to enjoy the dynamically different productions we are preparing for you. Up next are two Seattle-made premieres of recent Broadway sensations: Amy Herzog’s cathartic drama Mary Jane and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ incendiary comedy Appropriate. Then, we kick off summer with the return of our season opener The Play That Goes Wrong, giving our cast one more chance to get it right! I look forward to welcoming you back to Seattle Rep.

Until then,

Dámaso Rodríguez
Artistic Director

Seattle Rep

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dámaso Rodríguez   |   MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeffrey Herrmann

and

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
Kyle Valentine & Next Stage Productions
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

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, are strictly prohibited.

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.

The National Tour of Here There Are Blueberries is made possible through the generosity of
Midnight Theatricals
and underwritten by Michael P.N.A. Hormel, Kay & Bill Gurtin, Leatrice Wolf, Judy & Michael Steinhardt, and Gary Wasserman

MOISÉS KAUFMAN
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

MATT JOSLYN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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

2025/26 Season Sponsor

Leslie Lackey

Producing Partners

Linda & Ted Johnson 

Title Sponsor

Institutional Season Sponsor

January 21 – February 15, 2026  |  Bagley Wright Theater

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Delia Cunningham

Rebecca Erbelding and others

National Tour: Ivo Van Hove’s A View from the Bridge. Off-Broadway: Someone Spectacular (Signature Theatre). TV: 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

Off-Broadway: The Sheen Center, 59E59, Mint Theater Company. Regional: Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Crossroads Theatre Company, Voyage Theater Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theater, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Arden Theatre Company, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. International: Edinburgh Fringe 2024 and 2016. Select TV/Film: Glass, The Upside, Brave the Dark, “Random Acts of Flyness,” “Law & Order,” “House of Cards,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary.” Much love to my family and FOM. kimberlysfairbanks.com

Christian Pedersen

Karl Höcker and others

Christian Pedersen 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 New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.

Barbara Pitts

Judy Cohen and others

Original actor/co-creator of The Laramie Project (BAM, Union Square, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep; HBO’s film adaptation, shared Emmy Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay). Recent theater: The Price (Shakespeare & Co.); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike 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,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and Comedy Central’s “Pulp Comics.” Barb is the co-creator of heretooproject.com, amplifying youth activism through performance.

Sam Reeder

Tilman Taube

Sam Reeder 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: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. Favorite credits include Hal in Henry IV (Live Arts), Actor 2 in Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Virginia Theater Festival), KJ in The Aliens, Panch/Olive’s Dad in ...Spelling Bee, and Septimus in Arcadia.

Marrick Smith

Rainer Höss and others

NYC-based actor and audio engineer. Broadway: Fun Home (Original Broadway Cast). First National Tour: Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway: Pretty Filthy, Wild Goose Dreams. TV: “The Blacklist.” Regional: Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing...Forum (The Muny); Beautiful (Paper Mill Playhouse). Film Scoring: Tuesday, The Screens, Macabre. Music Production: J. Riley Henderson, Sarah Morgan, Sabrina Monique. Live/Front of House: Senior Engineer at The Iridium, O.A.R., Lyle Lovett, 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 Theatre Workshop), Twelve Dreams (Lincoln Center), The Common Pursuit (Roundabout Theatre Company), 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: Criminal Intent,” “Chicago P.D.” Writer, deviser, and company member at Tectonic Theater Project and faculty member at its Moment Work Institute.

Folami Williams

Charlotte Schüzel and others

Recent: August Wilson’s Jitney (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Devil’s Disciple (Off-Broadway), and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway). Other notable work: 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). New works developed with PigPen Theatre Co., Colt Coeur, and New York Theatre Workshop. TV/Film: “The Blacklist,” “Younger,” “Bull,” and Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It. M.F.A. in Acting from Columbia University. @folamiwill

Will Carlyon

u/s Karl, Rainer, and Others

Will Carlyon is so excited to join the Blueberries team once again, after workshopping the show with Tectonic in 2018 and later appearing briefly in the 2024 Off-Broadway production. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Cedric Diggory) and Cabaret starring Alan Cumming. TV: “Instinct” and “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS); “Law & Order: Organized Crime” (NBC). Other credits include Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Christmas Show (The Old Globe), Torch Song (Off-Broadway), ...Spelling Bee (Chip Tolentino), A Funny Thing...Forum (Hero), Henry V (Prince Hal). Training: Northwestern University, LAMDA.

Anna Shafer

u/s Rebecca, Charlotte & Melita

Anna Shafer lives, works, and teaches in Washington, D.C. Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries at New York Theatre Workshop. D.C. 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.

Moisés Kaufman

Conceiver, Director, Co-Author

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 for 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

Amanda Gronich is 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 Design

Broadway: 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: Six years of Academy Awards (Emmy Award), four 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 (The Public Theater), 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 Moisés Kaufman, among other productions. Extensive Off-Broadway, regional theater, and international theater and opera. Awards: Two Tony Award Nominations, five Drama Desk Awards (one win), among many others.

Bobby McElver

Sound Design

Off-Broadway: Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop, 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 Theater and Dance.

David Bengali

Projection Design

Broadway: Water for Elephants (Tony and Outer Critics nominations), 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 Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre D.C.; Hewes and Helen Hayes Awards); Twilight: LA 1992 (Signature Theatre, A.R.T.; Hewes Award, Drama Desk nomination), Monsoon Wedding (Saint Ann’s Warehouse), The Visitor (The Public Theater; Lortel nomination), Walk On Through (MCC); Circle Jerk (Fake Friends; Obie Award). National Tours: Peter Pan, 1776, Rockin' Road to Dublin.

Ann James

Intimacy Coordinator & Sensitivity Specialist

Ann C. James, 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, The 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 U.S.A., U.K. and Australia.

Amy Marie Seidel

Associate Director & Dramaturg

Amy Marie Seidel 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 assistant/associate director credits include Paradise Square (Broadway), The Great Gatsby (Broadway), and Billie Jean (Chicago Shakes). 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 Theater), 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 (New York Theatre Workshop) and Assistant Stage Manager (La Jolla Playhouse and Shakespeare Theatre Company). With Krymov Lab NYC: Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: In Our Own Words (Under the Radar) and 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

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). M.F.A. from UC San Diego.

Evan Bernardin Productions

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 (D.C.) and Goodspeed, rigging for Noli Timere, interim technical director for Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop), and opening the new Perelman PAC at the World Trade Center. Past technical direction includes work at Two River Theater, Studio Theatre (D.C.), and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Educational work, teaching, and mentoring include Rutgers University, MGSA, and Montclair State University. Jackie holds an M.F.A. in Technical Design and Production from Yale School of Drama and a B.F.A. in Technical Production from Montclair State University.

Molly Tiede-Schroer

Lighting Director & Associate Lighting Designer

Molly Tiede-Schroer 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. mollytiededesign.com

Producers

TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT (Producer) is a New York City-based developmental theater company founded in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman and 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. Off-Broadway: 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 theater’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)
Bruce Roberts is thrilled to help bring Blueberries to a wider audience. For over 35 years, Bruce has produced and managed 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 three-time 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) 
Ricky 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 and Dad for everything.

Sonia Friedman Productions (Co-Producer) is one of the most prolific and influential theater 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 three 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). soniafriedman.com 

Linda B. Rubin (Co-Producer)
Since 2018, eight-time Tony Award Winner. Currently on Broadway: Ragtime, Oedipus, The Outsiders, and Hadestown. Spring 2026: Giant. U.S. Tours: The Outsiders and 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 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 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 September 30, 2025, 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 seven years at Notre Dame, before changing careers as part of the third 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 third 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 Award, Drama Desk, Outer Circle Critics Award, Peabody Award winner. Thanks to all of you who support live theater, which entertains, enlightens, and engages. Thanks to my family, who do the same.

NextStage Productions (Co-Producer) 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. nextstageproductions.com

Kyle Valentine (Co-Producer) is a Tony-nominated 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. They 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 Award-winning producer and Olivier winner. He has been nominated for an American Grammy Award and is an executive producer on the Merrily We Roll Along movie. 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 theater access for veterans, service members, and their families. Broadway credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Tony), Operation Mincemeat, Chess, Heathers (Off-Broadway), 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. @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 B.A. 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. Upcoming: The Show on the Roof and Yasuke: The Legend of The Black Samurai. a-robertson.com

Actors’ Equity Association (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 theater 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. actorsequity.org

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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. 

For more, visit 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

The Album & The Investigation

Beyond the Stage

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). 

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 looks at 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 The Laramie Project, Kaufman and Tectonic company 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 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 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.  

Discover more about the photographs that inspired HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES and download the accompanying discussion guide and lesson plans.

Follow up on your Here There Are Blueberries experience with another provocative, gripping, and unforgettable production: Branden Jacob-Jenkins' Appropriate. 

Exploring the fragility of truth, the power of artifacts, and the haunting persistence of history, Seattle Rep’s spring lineup asks audiences to look closer—at what we keep, what we hide, and what those choices say about us.

APRIL 9 – MAY 10 | BAGLEY WRIGHT THEATER 

Appropriate 

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 
Directed by Timothy McCuen Piggee 

When the Lafayettes descend upon their late father’s crumbling plantation home for an estate sale, they unearth an appalling secret that pits them against one another. Through a cascading series of revelations, biting humor boils over into bruising conflict, and no one will escape this family gathering unscathed. Smart, incendiary, and never before produced in Seattle, this 2024 Tony Award winner by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Everybody, An Octoroon; 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Purpose) depicts a Southern family wrestling with a destructive inheritance as they consider the legacy they want to leave for the next generation.

Don’t miss your chance to witness this dialogue on stage. Get your tickets today! 

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