About Red Productions Events

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Founded by Gordon Farrell and Tatiana Gelfand, Red Productions Events started in a theater lab on Allen Street, NYC's Lower East Side, in 2009. 

Since then,  we have grown to create and co-produce events in San Francisco and Buffalo, Off-Broadway and now at 

New York's Alchemical Studios.

The press has called our work

"Unforgettable!"

"In your face!"

"Rare and special!"

"Authentic and from the heart." 

(Photo: Our host venue on Allen Street, New York City)

We seek out and collaborate with dedicated artists who are committed to bringing provocative voices to the stage.

We are  confrontational, poetic and full of humanity  in our theater presentations.

 We create expressionist experiments, walk-through theater and  sometimes traditional theater -- that will catch you off-guard with a daring concept or unexpected  twist.

(Photo: A scene from the Alleyway Theatre's production of  Tatiana Gelfand's "Scotch and Madness.")

Gordon is a veteran Off-Broadway producer and  an award-winning Broadway playwright, co-author of "The Lifespan of a Fact," which starred Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones and Bobby Canavale and produced by eight-time Tony winner Jeffrey Richards. The play made Variety's List of Ten Best Plays of 2018 as well as The New Times Critics' Pick and the Boston Globe's Critics' Pick. It is currently being performed across North America and in countries around the world. His critically celebrated play "Alice Again" had its Off-Broadway premiere in 2022 at the Trinity Theater in New York. In 2009, Gordon co-founded Red Productions Events in a theater lab on NYC's Lower East Side, where he developed a trilogy of monologue plays for women called The Red Anthology. Working with co-founder Tatiana Gelfand and subsequently with Neal Radice of the Alleyway Theater in Buffalo, he developed it into an immersive walk through theater experience which received rave reviews and ran Off-Broadway in 2024.  Gordon is the author of The Power of the Playwright's Vision, published by Heinemann Press in 2001 which has been translated internationally and is now a standard playwriting text on four continents. 

Film and Television producer, Alison Bartlett is an award-winning writer, Emmy nominated actress, and director. As an actress, her Broadway debut was in David Rabe's "Hurly-burly" directed by Mike Nichols. From 1986-2015 she starred as the role of Gina on the world-wide acclaimed television show "Sesame Street". Known for her recurring roles on HBO's "The Sopranos", & FX's "Rescue Me", Alison has guest starred on numerous TV shows and received an Emmy Nomination for "Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special" for her lead performance in ABC's Afterschool Special "It's Only Rock & Roll". As a screenwriter, Alison has won the Silver Remi at the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, along with an Award of Excellence in 2023 for “The Impact DOCS Awards”. She has gone on to produce, write, and direct “Zen Brownie” narrated by Jeff Bridges, and is currently in post-production for three new short documentary films which she and her team of filmmakers traveled worldwide to capture. “Carry Me” the feature film which she has written and is set to direct, is in development and slated to commence principal photography this year.

Andrea joined Red Productions Events for "Girls Who Walked on Glass" in 2019 during our early months of planning the New York City showcase production, traveling between three states to keep the project alive through its many COVID-related stops and starts. She was trained at the Disney College Program and her first management assignments were at Disney World Resort. She was a producer and production manager for Star Group at Cipriani in New York City for five years, and is also the event planner and coordinator at Sage Meadows Barn in Culver, Indiana, where her family lives. 

 Tatiana trained with the internationally celebrated theater artist Carlo Magaletti assisting on his “Wunder[bar]” in Munich, Germany, and the Off-Broadway danseteatr “Let’s Speak Tango!” In San Francisco, Gelfand directed “No Exit” at Mojo Theater, “The Eighth Circle” & “The Audition From Hell” at the Playwrights' Center of SF. 

For Red Productions, she directed “Lovers and Other Liars,” “Threshold,” and “Exit Routes”, as well as co-creating  “Girls Who Walked on Glass”. Gelfand wrote and directed "Scotch and Madness," a cutting edge expressionist drama that premiered to critical acclaim at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo in 2020.  

 Sharon is the founding partner of Momentum Media. She is a veteran public relations executive with over 20 years of experience. She was a former Vice President of Media Relations at Rubenstein Public Relations and a Founding Partner of Dash Media, with British public relations expert, David Owen. Sharon joined Red Productions Events in 2022, serving as press agent for our New York City showcase of "Girls Who Walked on Glass." More recently she was pess agent for "Alice Again" at Trinity Theatre in New York, and the Broadway industry reading of "Navigators"  which was directed by Mark Brokaw, starring Austin Pendleton, Santino Fontana and Brooke Bloom.  

Kelly attended the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and subsequently began working in many aspects of theater, including acting, writing, coaching, and directing. She has directed plays for the Samuel French Playwright Festival and The New York International Fringe Festival. Favorite directing credits include The Seagull, The Sutherby Triplets, Reading Between the Lies, Long Island Quartet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Kelly is a publish writer and the founding Artistic Director of Endangered Artist Sanctuary, which she established with Carl Gibson, Ilana Kresch, and Kurt Roediger, among others.  In 2022, Kelly was tapped by Playwright/producer Gordon Farrell to direct the first New York City  production of "Girls Who Walked on Glass." 

Kurt Roediger was at the directorial helm of Girls Who Walked on Glass for our 2024 Off-Broadway run, alongside Chelsea Lesage.  In 2022, he co-directed and oversaw all performances of this complex and fast moving experience. He most recently directed Sean Lynch’s Wildfire Dogs and was assistant director for Kelly Barrett-Gibson’s Reading Between the Lies, which he also acted in at the Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts. Kurt has also directed for Love Creek Productions and Production Workshop. He is a veteran NYC actor who has appeared in numerous shows, both in NYC and regionally. Kurt is a founding member of and sits on the artistic board of Endangered Artist Sanctuary. He is a graduate of Brown University and has trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. 

 LeSage is the cofounder of both CL Squared Productions and Golden Grand Piano in New York. An actor/model/director/producer, she has toured internationally as Shakespeare’s “Henry V” and has modeled for brands such as Sephora, Cover Girl, and Venus, among others. She is known for her role as Julie in Amazon Prime’s “21st Century Demon Hunter,” is playing The Nameless in the upcoming “Bishop’s Cove,” and Jo in the upcoming “Devour.” In the past she has assayed Lady Macbeth in “Macbeth,” The Witch in “Into the Woods” and the title role in Hamlet.    LeSage returns to the role of Katrina in the first major New York production of "Girls Who Walked on Glass" as well as co-directing alongside Kurt Roediger.