GET TO KNOW US:
OUR MISSION:
Little Lord is an ensemble-based company that aggressively reinterprets classic, found, and neglected texts to create new works of experimental performance. Holding a funhouse mirror up to our shared cultural memories, Little Lord subverts conventional storytelling, uproots the familiar, and questions assumptions about the world in which we live. Founded in 2007, Little Lord’s work has been praised as “fearless in its weirdness,” and boasts “a zany over-muchness that experimental theater needs like oxygen.”
OUR HISTORY
Little Lord’s early work included a retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia using Barbie dolls in The Barbie-steia: Curse of the House of Malibu, a queer Yiddish vaudeville reinterpretation of Artistophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae in BALABUSTAS, an adaptation of a Victor Herbert musical extravaganza recast as a “recession spectacular” in BABES IN TOYLAND, a celebration of the biblical Book of Esther styled as your sister’s 1991 Bat Mitzvah in JEWQUEEN, and an experiment with Eugene O’Neill’s early, public domain writing (complete with mad scene and inflatable sharks) in (oh my god I am so) THIRST(y).
In the past decade, we explored and responded to 400 years of artistic interpretations/whitewashing of the Pocahontas story in Pocahontas, and/or AMERICA, and delved into the forgotten author behind one of the world’s most beloved children’s books as well as his most scandalous piece of pornography for BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS. In NOW IS THE TIME. NOW IS THE BEST TIME. NOW IS THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE, we focused primarily on the artistic output of Washington Irving, but also on larger questions of time, change, and loss.
Leading up to the pandemic Little Lord premiered our eleventh original piece SKINNAMARINK / The Peanut Butter Show (2018, 2019, NYTimes Critics’ Pick) our absurd and vicious take on education and indoctrination in America. Currently: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – an unauthorized community-built self-help session for those seeking development in midlife and beyond.
PLACES WE'VE WORKED
Little Lord’s work has been developed and presented at performance venues across New York City, including New York Theatre Workshop, Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, Mercury Store, Coffey Street Studios, LMCC’s Arts Center on Governors Island, Target Margin Theater, Chocolate Factory, HERE Arts Center, Judson Church, OHIO Theatre, Incubator Arts Project, UNDER St Marks, and Dixon Place.
WE ARE...
MICHAEL LEVINTON ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MORGAN LINDSEY TACHCO CREATIVE PRODUCER
LAURA VON HOLT CO-FOUNDER
LITTLE LORD LEROY MASCOT
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
is a writer, director, performer, and creator of original work for the theater. As Founder and Artistic Director of Little Lord, he develops and produces “junk spectaculars,” premiering work at venues throughout NYC. In addition to Little Lord, Levinton is a producer, curator, and non-profit management consultant, and has worked with dozens of NYC performing arts companies in generating and growing new artistic programs. He is a 2018 Drama League Resident, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (with focus on Mythology/Ritual), an associated artist of Target Margin Theater, a member of Actors’ Equity, and a ham trained on the Baltimore Dinner Theatre circuit.
is a Brooklyn-based theatre maker and creative consultant. Morgan has supported the work of thousands of artists as a creative producer, festival & venue director, advocate, grantmaker, and development strategist. Her performance work has been called, “playful, nuanced,” and “pretty, although quite chubby,” and she can be seen singing in the back rooms of bars across NYC and running around making subversive theatre with Little Lord. Morgan holds a B.A. from Goddard College in Individualized Studies with a concentration in Performance and Arts Management, and is a 2015 New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow. morganlindseytachco.com
CREATIVE PRODUCER
is a critically-acclaimed, award-nominated writer and performer from Hawai’i. As the co-director of Little Lord, she has collaborated on ten original pieces for the theater, including THIRST (NYITA nomination for Best Featured Actress), JEWQUEEN, BABES IN TOYLAND, POCAHONTAS, NOW IS THE TIME, and New York Times Critics' Pick BAMBIF*CKER /KAFFEEHAUS. When she is not in the theater, Laura is the Fairy Boss Mother of Cinderly and host of The Mermaid Podcast. Laura publishes paranormal romances about mermaids as Madame de Boudoir. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Daily Mail, The Huffington Post, Redbook, Current TV and Jezebel. lauravonholt.com/meetme
CO-FOUNDER
MASCOT
is Freddie Bartholomew, an actor who played Cedric Erroll, aka Little Lord Fauntleroy, in the 1936 film of the same name. The original name of the company was The Little Lord Fauntleroys, and was based on a nickname given to artistic director Michael Levinton in his youth because of his unfortunate luck of appearing numerous times in terrible family friendly holiday musicals in a pair of knee-high socks and yellow knickers. The name was shortened in 2010.
Moe Angelos (performer/deviser), Sarah Bishop-Stone (dramaturg, producer), Leonie Bell (performer/deviser) Karen Boyer (designer) Kaaron Briscoe (performer/deviser) David GR Brummer (performer/deviser) Lisa Rafaela Clair (performer/deviser) David Commander (performer/deviser) Tim Cusack (performer/deviser), Corinne Donly (performer/deviser), Das Elkin (performer/deviser), Whitney G-Bowley (choreographer), Joshua William Gelb (performer/deviser), Fernando Gonzalez (performer/deviser), RN Healey (performer/deviser), Elizabeth Barrett Groth (designer), Megan Hill (performer/deviser), Sauda Jackson (performer/deviser), Jane Jung (producer), Marika Kent (designer), Diana Konopka (performer/deviser), Crystal Kovacs (designer), John Kurzynowski (performer/deviser), Polly Lee (performer/deviser), Michael Levinton (director, performer/deviser), Meg MacCary (performer/deviser), Kate Marvin (designer), Chris Mills (dramaturg), Daniel Allen Nelson (performer/deviser), Kaitlin Nemeth (stage manager), Rodney Pallanck (musician, performer/deviser), Jackie Rivera (stage manager), Natalie Robin (designer), Cha See (designer), Morgan Lindsey Tachco (performer/deviser, producer), Laura von Holt (performer/deviser, co-founder), Christina Watanabe (designer), Kate Weber (performer/deviser), Stephanie Weeks (performer/deviser), Joseph Wolfslau (designer), Peiyi Wong (designer), James Wyrwicz (ass’t director, stage manager)
COLLABORATING ARTISTS