Our Mission
Little Red Light is co-founded by Michael Blatt and David Carl with a mission to create an intimate theatre experience that is tailored for the smart NYC theatre goer.
Our focus is to produce small, noncommercial musicals and plays that are an alternative to traditional commercial theatre. We hope to shine light on the Queer/Jewish American experience.
Our name was inspired from our first show Hello Again which became the inspiration for our aesthetic design of the show. A red light in a window has traditionally been a signal to tell people that this is a house of ill repute, but it also signaled that it was a safe place for artists and people on the fringe of society; a place for “unconventional” people to gather.
Our Little Red Light is a reminder to our audiences they are about to see theatre in a safe space and that they will see theatre that will challenge them to expand their minds and give them an alternative theatrical experience from commercial theatre.
Our People
Michael Blatt
Co-Artistic Director
Michael is a New York City based director, producer, and theatre educator. Michael is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Little Red Light Theatre specializing in Jewish/Queer musicals and plays. He produced/directed Hello Again, Thrill Me: the Leopold & Loeb Story and An infinite Ache and Jewish in an Hour with Little Red Light Theatre.
As a Director, Michael has worked in Bergen, Norway where he directed a new Norwegian translation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. He directed/choreographed All Kinds of People for Inside Broadway which is a program to bring Broadway shows to NYC Public schools. Other directing credits include Fiddler on the Roof and Escape to Margaritaville at Woodstock Playhouse, Always Patsy Cline , Legally Blonde at Priscilla Beach Theatre, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels andThe Big Bang for Actors Theatre of Indiana and a world premiere devised play entitled Finding Home at Northern Michigan University. Michael is a member of The Playwriting and Directing Workshop at The Actors Studio. Michael is currently an adjunct Professor at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC .
He is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and SDC. Michaelblatt.info
David Carl
Co-Artistic Director
Little Red Light Theatre: Thrill Me, Hello Again. Favorite music direction includes KRAGTAR: An American Monster Musical with Theatre Now New York and The Dolls of New Albion with The National Theatre for Student Artists. As a composer, he’s collaborated on Vestments of the Gods with Owen Panettieri (winner: Best ensemble at 2014 NYFringe) and Love, Rose with playwright Reneé Flemings (2018 reading at HB Studios.) He’s worked with a number of educational and youth programs including six summers at Stagedoor Manor. Former member of the BMI musical theatre workshop.
Our Shows
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