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 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.

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.

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.

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 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, 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 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

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

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 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 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. 

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 Theater (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 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

Tectonic Theater Project 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 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 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

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 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 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 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). soniafriedman.com  

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 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. 

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. 

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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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