Who she plays: Delia Cunningham stars as Rebecca Erbelding, the youngest archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as of 2007. When she receives the Höcker album, she recognizes that "there was something very special here that could teach us about [...] man's inhumanity to man and complicity and culpability," Cunningham explained. "She basically spearheads this detective story and brings all her colleagues into this inquiry that is not only intellectual, but moral."

Takeaway from the play: "Audiences expect to walk into a play about Auschwitz in 1944, and many audiences have a lot of knowledge about that time. But that knowledge will be disrupted, and they will be asked to challenge their assumptions about the people who perpetrated this genocide, and they will be encouraged to look in a slightly different direction at the history. [They'll be] asking questions that reverberate beyond the context of Auschwitz [...] about how people come to participate in acts of evil."

Career archive: Cunningham makes her Broadway debut with Blueberries after starring in the show's 2025 national tour. She's also appeared in numerous TV shows, including Before, Paper Girls, Madam Secretary, and Elementary.

Who he plays: Scott Barrow plays Karl Höcker, a high-ranking Auschwitz official who curated the photo album that incites the story of Here There Are Blueberries. "For me, the big question is, how does this man exist in the world?" Barrow said of Höcker. "He's a family man who has children at home, and then his day job is going in and administrating the largest human killing center in the history of mankind."

Takeaway from the play: "Bystanderism was a big question I had. Where in my life am I standing by and watching something that maybe I should be a little bit more involved in?"

Career archive: Barrow has collaborated with Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project since 2005, having made his Broadway debut in Tectonic's 33 Variations and toured in its most famous show, The Laramie Project. He is credited as a deviser of Here There Are Blueberries and previously performed in the show in Miami, in La Jolla, and off Broadway.

Who she plays: Kathleen Chalfant reprises her role from previous Here There Are Blueberries productions as Judy Cohen, the director of the Holocaust Museum's photographic division. The album's fate was determined chiefly by Cohen and Erbelding together, as the two generations sorted through the ethical implications of publicizing it or not.

Takeaway from the play: "It's impossible to do the show without thinking about the phenomenon of othering and how useful it is to people who want to establish power over other people. If you invent an enemy, you can turn people's attention to this invented enemy and go on doing whatever else. [Blueberries is] about many, many things, but it's certainly about the dangers of othering and how easy it is to do."

Career archive: Chalfant returns to Broadway for the first time since 1995's Racing Demon. In between, she's appeared in nearly 30 Off-Broadway productions, becoming a beloved stage fixture. She's won two Obie Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a Drama League Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joe A. Callaway Award, and she earned a Tony nomination for the 1993 Broadway premiere of Angels in America.

Who he plays: Brandon Flynn plays Rainer Höss, the grandson of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The elder Höss is pictured in the Höcker album, and audiences meet his grandson "in an interesting place in his life," Flynn said.

Takeaway from the play: "This play taught me a lot about archivists in museums and the work they do. A very central part of this play is how archivists take care of history and bring it in a very factual way to the world. We've discussed how inspiring that is, especially in a time of misinformation and overload of information."

Career archive: Flynn makes his Broadway debut in Blueberries after rising to fame as Justin Foley on the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Off Broadway, he's starred in the recent plays Kowalski (as Marlon Brando) and Data.

Who she plays: Montego Glover's primary role is that of Melita Maschmann, a former Hitler Youth member who became a Nazi. She's best known for reflecting on that part of her life as an adult in a 1963 memoir whose title translates to Conclusion: No Attempt at Justification.

Takeaway from the play: "There is so much history we know, and so much history we don't know, and we have the ability to discover it in such unusual and unheard-of places."

Career archive: Glover has been working in theatre consistently since the early aughts, playing lead Broadway roles including the Witch in Into the Woods, Felicia in Memphis, Fantine in Les Misérables, and Momma Rose in Gypsy as the alternate for Audra McDonald.

Who he plays: Michael Cerveris plays Peter Wirths, whose father, Eduard Wirths, was the chief SS doctor at Auschwitz.

Takeaway from the play: "At the same time that we're showing how terribly human beings can be manipulated into doing horrific things, we're also watching a group of human beings choose to put themselves aside and come together as an ensemble. At the same moment you're witnessing the most horrific side of humanity, you're also watching the only thing that is a counter to that."

Career archive: Since making his Broadway debut in the title role of The Who's Tommy in 1993, Cerveris has been a theatre favorite. He's appeared in 15 Broadway shows, including Blueberries, and is a six-time Tony nominee who's won for Assassins and Fun Home.

Who he plays: Conrad Ricamora plays Tilman Taube, a German man who happens to read an article about the Höcker album and recognizes his grandfather in the photos, discovering the true extent of his involvement in the Holocaust.

Takeaway from the play: "I've learned how any human being can be capable of the most horrific things and be complicit [...] there's different degrees of complicity. I've learned how important it is to really educate yourselves about the influence you have in the world and the influence your activities have in the world, and to build community [and] empathy so nothing like this ever happens again."

Career archive: Since gaining fame as Oliver Hampton on the TV series How to Get Away with Murder, Ricamora has become a stage fixture. He earned his first Tony Award nomination in 2024 for playing Abe Lincoln in Oh, Mary!, and his other Broadway credits include Here Lies Love and The King and I.

Who she plays: One of Michelle Beck's main roles is Charlotte Schünzel, a woman believed to be pictured in the Höcker album.

Takeaway from the play: "Humanity is complex. [Expect to] think deeply about the questions of what it means to be a human and how we interact in the world."

Career archive: Beck got her start as a Shakespearean actor in the early aughts and now returns to Broadway for the first time since making her debut as an understudy in the 2014 A Raisin in the Sun revival.

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