Three World Premieres and a Pulitzer Finalist Lead Miami New Drama’s New Season
- wgclients01
- Aug 26
- 4 min read
Miami New Drama (MiND), the largest bilingual professional theater company in the United States, announces a 2025–26 season of extraordinary relevance and artistic ambition. Featuring three world premieres and the return of a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the lineup confronts immigration battles, rising antisemitism, and political family fractures, cementing Miami New Drama’s position as one of America’s most vital incubators of urgent new work.
“This season confronts some of the most urgent and combustible issues shaping our world right now,” says Michel Hausmann, Artistic Director and winner of the 2025 Vinnette Carroll Award for multicultural storytelling. “These plays don’t just mirror the headlines, they dive beneath them, asking the questions we too often avoid. We believe theater can be a rare space where we wrestle with complexity, challenge each other with empathy, and still find a way to sit together in the same room.”
The season opens with Here There Are Blueberries, the Pulitzer Prize finalist that began its journey in a Miami New Drama workshop in the 2017/18 season under the title The Album before becoming one of the most acclaimed productions of 2024. The company then premieres three new works with the urgency of today’s headlines: English Only, the true story of Miami’s 1980 language wars; The Zionists: A Family Storm, a searing look at how the aftermath of October 7th fractures a prominent Jewish family; and Todo Lo Que No Dije, a Spanish-language exploration of identity, belonging, and the unspoken truths that shape us. Here's the season at a glance:
HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES
By Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich | Conceived and Directed by Moisés Kaufman | November 13 – December 7, 2025
In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unravel the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon makes headlines and ignites a debate that reverberates far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs—what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.
A 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2025 Lucille Lortel Award winner for Outstanding Play, and two-time Helen Hayes Award winner, Here There Are Blueberries has been named one of the “10 Best Plays of 2024” by the Wall Street Journal. It was featured on the May 2024 season finale of 60 Minutes and was recently highlighted in The New York Times as one of the top plays to see this spring. Charles McNulty of the LA Times calls it “the greatest detective story ever written.” Described as “riveting... a gripping exposé... compellingly theatrical” (The Washington Post) and “precise & intelligent” (The New York Times), the play continues to resonate with audiences nationwide.
Here There Are Blueberries is written by Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich and conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman.
The national tour of Here There Are Blueberries is a co-production with La Jolla Playhouse, and is produced by Tectonic Theater Project and Brian & Dayna Lee, in association with Bruce Roberts, Sue Vaccaro, and Ricky Stevens.
The Miami New Drama production is made possible with the support of Frank Lowy, Gary Wasserman, Midnight Theatricals, and Michael P.N.A. Hormel.
ENGLISH ONLY (World Premiere)
By Nicholas Griffin | Directed by Margo Bordelon | January 29 – February 22, 2026 | Part of the Miami History Series
A gripping true story about the campaign to outlaw Spanish in 1980s Miami. At its center is a battle between two passionate immigrants on opposite sides of a cultural firestorm that erupted in the wake of the Mariel Boatlift, when 125,000 new arrivals ignited fierce debate over language, identity, and belonging. This sharp, resonant play explores the politics of power and place—and what it means to call Miami home.
THE ZIONISTS: A FAMILY STORM (World Premiere)
By S. Asher Gelman | Directed by Chloe Treat | April 9 – May 3, 2026 | Part of the Y6K Jewish Play Initiative
A prominent Jewish family, fractured by the politics and aftermath of October 7, gathers for a fragile reunion at a luxury Caribbean resort. But as a sudden hurricane bears down outside their bungalow, an even fiercer storm erupts within—forcing them to confront old wounds, clashing values, and the ties that may no longer bind them. In this urgent and deeply human world premiere from acclaimed playwright S. Asher Gelman (Afterglow), The Zionists: A Family Storm lays bare how identity, politics, and history can tear families apart—and the struggle to hold them together in an increasingly divided world.
TODO LO QUE NO DIJE (World Premiere)
Written by Harley Elias | Created & Directed by Michel Hausmann | Summer 2026 | Performed in Spanish
A warm, funny, and participatory Spanish-language work that invites audiences to explore identity, belonging, and the unspoken truths that shape us. Memories become props, spectators become scene partners, and a giant paper airplane takes flight as a search for a parent spans multiple continents. Tender and disarmingly interactive, Todo Lo Que No Dije transforms letters, songs, and crowd-crafted moments into a love story about forgiveness.
ABOUT MIAMI NEW DRAMA
Founded by visionary playwright and director Michel Hausmann, Miami New Drama is the largest bilingual professional theater company in the United States, dedicated to producing socially relevant, artistically ambitious new work. Since 2016, MiND has been the resident company at Miami Beach’s historic Colony Theatre, premiering more than 20 groundbreaking plays and musicals.
Notable world premieres include 7 Deadly Sins (Drama League Award), A Wonderful World (Tony Award–nominated, Broadway), The Cuban Vote, Lincoln Road Hustle, Birthright, The Museum Plays, Elian, and the first-ever multilingual adaptation of Our Town. The company has received national recognition with honors including the Thornton Wilder Prize, multiple Knight Arts Challenge Awards, and the Silver Palm Award.
For tickets and more information, visit miaminewdrama.org. Season memberships are available now.