Amanda
Gronich
Writer | Educator | XXXXXXXXX
I am an award-winning playwright and TV scriptwriter who has devoted my career to telling true stories.
Compulsively, I scan the headlines and history books for the shocks and surprises, the life-altering and groundbreaking events that forever change the way we see the world – and how we see ourselves. I write, I consult, I support and I teach. Always, we begin with: “What’s something everyone gets wrong about this story?” Now…go.
Now on Broadway
2024 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
Through January 10 | 80 Performances Only!
2007. A mysterious photo album arrives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nazi-era images unlike any that have been seen before. A relentless search begins into the history trapped in the lens. As the album makes headlines, questions surface that ignite a worldwide reckoning. Based on true 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.
Here There Are Blueberries is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist that the Los Angeles Times calls “the greatest detective story ever told.” From Tectonic Theater Project (The Laramie Project), conceived and directed by Moisés Kaufman, and written by Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, Here There Are Blueberries is “riveting” (The Washington Post), “unforgettable” (The Guardian), and “one of the finest new plays of the year” (The Wall Street Journal).
Interested in telling true stories – captured in groundbreaking interviews and research – on the stage?
Want to explore up on your feet? I offer classes on zoom and in person. Come train in diverse techniques that generate powerful non-fiction storytelling. We explore in-depth: the art of interviewing; story structures that propel your dramatic throughlines; devising methods that help you craft and hone your non-fiction material into thought-provoking, well-plotted theatrical narratives. Make it an unforgettable play.
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A new chapter, coming soon.
I’m also thrilled to share that a how-to book about my original nonfiction story-devising methods – tentatively titled MAKING THEATER FROM INTERVIEWS – will be released by SIU Press. Here’s a blurb:
Truth isn’t only stranger than fiction, it can be infinitely more dramatic, as this exercise-driven manual proves with step-by-step devising techniques that apply all the inventiveness of theatrical fiction writing – classic story structures, gripping character arcs and precision plotting – to extraordinary real-life events, creating groundbreaking new plays crafted from the world’s unexplored true stories, told through the words of those who lived them.