We are thrilled to announce Miami New Drama’s upcoming season — urgent, adventurous, and speaking directly to the times we live in while continuing our tradition of bold, original storytelling. Once again, it’s a season anchored in world premieres, reflecting our belief that new works emerging from communities like Miami are shaping the future of the American theatre.
We open with Here There Are Blueberries, returning to us as a Pulitzer Prize finalist after its first public workshop at Miami New Drama under the title The Album in our 2017/18 season. Born from a haunting photo album discovered in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archives, the play examines how ordinary people can be complicit in extraordinary evil — a powerful reckoning with memory and complicity. Its return also celebrates our long-standing artistic kinship with Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project, whose collaborations continue to enrich our stage.
We then present the World Premiere of English Only by Nicholas Griffin, part of our 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. This sharp, resonant play explores the politics of language, power, and belonging — and what it means to call Miami home.
Next comes S. Asher Gelman’s The Zionists: A Family Storm, a deeply timely work in our Y6K Jewish Play Initiative exploring the intimate, familial fractures brought on by seismic political events. With wit, compassion, and unflinching honesty, it asks what it means to love — and stay connected to — those whose beliefs shake the very core of your own.
We close the season with Todo Lo Que No Dije, a Spanish-language World Premiere by Harley Elias that is funny, heartwarming, and driven by audience participation — an intimate, one-of-a-kind exploration of identity, belonging, and the unspoken truths that define us.
These four works span generations and geography, but they’re bound together by something deeper.
They’re about the ways we hold onto each other — and sometimes let go — when the world shifts beneath our feet. You’ll find yourself in heated conversations afterward, maybe with strangers in the lobby, maybe with yourself on the drive home. That’s the point. Theatre should leave you changed, not just entertained — all anchored in the belief that theatre can illuminate the complexities of our world while bringing people together.
