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 new 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.
Our People
Michael Blatt
Artistic Director/Co-Founder
Michael is a New York City based director, producer, and theatre educator. Michael is founder and Artistic Director of Little Red Light Theatre an Off Broadway theatre company specializing in Jewish/Queer musicals and plays. He produced/directed Hello Again, Thrill Me: the Leopold &Loeb Story, An infinite Ache, Harry Reems Goes to Hollywood and Fixing Frankie a new musical 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, Escape to Margaritaville at Woodstock Playhouse. Hello Dolly, Always Patsy Cline, Legally Blonde at Priscilla Beach Theatre. Titanic (Carmel Symphony Orchestra) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Big Bang for Actors Theatre of Indiana and a world premiere devised play entitled Finding Home at Northern Michigan University.
Michael is currently an adjunct Professor at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. MFA, Actors Studio Drama School, BFA Tish, NYU. AEA SAG/AFTRA SDC
Rochele Seskin
Producing Associate Artistic Director
Rochele co-produced the new Off Broadway musical Fixing Frankie with Little Red Light Theatre, directed by Michael Blatt and Joe Langworth. She was the Producing Artistic Director of Stage 74 at the SYJCC from 2013 – 2024 creating and producing their now annual Broadway Ball fundraiser. She is a director and choreographer as well as a voice and performance coach and has created several innovative programs including Cabaret Kids, Moms Who Sing and The Butler Theater Company designed for inclusion.
In 2019 she was nominated for the Carnegie Mellon University Excellence in Theater Education TONY Award.
She was a talent agent at J. Michael Bloom and Innovative Artists and then became a casting director for commercials, voice overs, film and tv. She was the in-house casting director for The Roundtable Ensemble, which provided free theater to inner city school
kids, from 1998 – 2001.
She has done Broadway National and International tours, including the 25th anniversary Broadway National Tour of Hair directed by James Rado. Rochele was a proud member of the La Mama 2000 Theater Company helmed by legendary director and friend Tom O’Horgan.
Our Shows
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