2022/2023 Season
Here There Are Blueberries
World-Premiere Play
July/August 2022 Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
By Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
Conceived and Directed by Moisés Kaufman
In Association with Tectonic Theater Project
An album of never before seen World War II-era photographs arrives at the desk of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist Rebecca Erbelding. As Rebecca and her team of historians begin to unravel the shocking story behind the images, the album soon makes headlines around the world. In Germany, a businessman sees the album online and recognizes his own grandfather in the photos. He begins a journey of discovery that will take him into the lives of other Nazi descendants – in a reckoning of his family’s past and his country’s history. Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these photographs – what they reveal about the Holocaust and our own humanity.
Cast & Creators
Moisés Kaufman
Playwright/Director
Broadway credits include the revival of Harvey Fierstein’s TORCH SONG, Rajiv Joseph’s BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, and the Playhouse-developed productions of 33 VARIATIONS (Tony nom for Best Play) and Doug Wright’s I AM MY OWN WIFE (Obie Award, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Award noms). West End: GROSS INDECENCY; I AM MY OWN WIFE; THIS IS HOW IT GOES. Off-Broadway/Regional: THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Drama Desk nom); THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER (Alice Tully Hall); GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Delacorte Theater), among others. Film/TV: THE LARAMIE PROJECT (HBO, 2 Emmy noms for writing and directing, Humanitas Prize). Mr. Kaufman is the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project and a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting.
Moisés Kaufman Playwright/Director
Amanda Gronich
Playwright
has devoted her career to bringing real life stories to the stage and screen. An Emmy-nominated non-fiction scriptwriter, she created hours of top rated programming for diverse broadcast networks. She served as the Supervising Senior Writer at Hoff Productions and worked as a series writer at National Geographic Television. A charter member of Tectonic Theater Project, she directed the company’s Toronto production of GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and was one of the group of artists who traveled to Wyoming and co-created THE LARAMIE PROJECT, later made into an HBO film. Currently, Amanda works as a playwright and a script development consultant in theater and TV. She also teaches interview-based storytelling as a Master Instructor at the Moment Work Institute and is at work on a book about her original play devising methods.
Amanda Gronich Playwright