See Who's Starring in International Tour of Here There Are Blueberries

The hit Off-Broadway show Here There Are Blueberries is hitting the international road in 2025, and a cast of fresh and familiar faces has been assembled.

The show, created by Tectonic Theatre Project, ran Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop earlier this year. Following two extensions, the play became the highest-grossing production in the theatre's 45-year history. It was also named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize.

The international tour cast of Here There Are Blueberries will include Scott Barrow as Karl Höcker and others, Barbara Pitts as Judy Cohen and others, and Grant Varjas as Peter Wirths and others, alongside Nemuna Ceesay as Charlotte Schüzel and others, Delia Cunningham as Rebecca Erbelding and others, Luke Forbes as Tilman Taube and others, Jeanne Sakata as Melita Maschmann, and Marrick Smith as Rainer Höss and others, with understudies Sam Reeder and Anna Shafer.

Co-written by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, and conceived and directed by Kaufman, the play follows the discovery of a photo album of Nazi officers at Auschwitz, and the questions those photographs raised about humanity's capacity for evil. It is based on a true story.

In a previous interview with Playbill, Kaufman explained, "Both Amanda and I have a family who died in the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the event that has been most written about in the history of literature. I always questioned what else there was to say. I never thought that there would be anything new. And then I saw these photographs, and they were something new and exciting. We spoke at great length about what happens when you center the perpetrators in the narrative, and yes, we were very daunted by that. We heard a lot of people saying, 'Well, don't humanize the Nazis.' And my response to that was, 'I don't have to humanize them. They're human.' There's a line in the play, 'Six million people didn't kill themselves.' It's important that we are also studying the psychology of the people who did this."

The design team of Off-Broadway's Here There Are Blueberries will continue for the tour, with scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by David Lander, sound design by Bobby McElver, and projection design by David Bengali. Ann James serves as intimacy coordinator and sensitivity specialist, with Amy Marie Seidel as associate director and dramaturg and Jacob Russell as stage manager. Casting is by Stephanie Yankwitt of TBD Casting.

The world premiere of Here There Are Blueberries was produced in 2022 by La Jolla Playhouse in California. Here There Are Blueberries is a co-production between New York Theatre Workshop and Tectonic Theater Project in partnership with Brian and Dayna Lee and Sonia Friedman Productions.

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