HAVE DRUGS STOPPED WORKING?
HAS COMPLACENCY BECOME PARALYSIS?
IS A SILVER MEDAL LOSING?
You may need PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT with Little Lord is an untrained/unauthorized community-built self-help seminar for those seeking "development" in early midlife and beyond.
In a return to public performance after an extended pandemic pause, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT explores themes of self-actualization, soft skills, pop psychology, and body betrayal. Built through exercises from self-help books and cassette tapes, game shows, Clown Ministry how-to guides, corporate soft skills webinars, and more, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT asks: Are we back? Is this anything? Does this help?
Note: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT requires no outwardly active audience participation – but we do encourage you to do that internal work on your own.
CONCEIVED AND FACILITATED BY
Michael Levinton & Little Lord
DEVELOPED COLLABORATIVELY WITH
Moe Angelos, Kaaron Briscoe, David Commander, Tim Cusack, Joshua William Gelb, RN Healey, Sauda Jackson, Polly Lee, Michael Levinton, Meg MacCary, Labhoise Magee, Daniel Allen Nelson, Morgan Lindsey Tachco, Laura von Holt, Kate Weber, James Wyrwicz
January 2026:
DIRECTED AND DESIGNED BY
Michael Levinton & Little Lord
PRODUCED BY
Little Lord & Lucy Powis
WITH
Moe Angelos*, Joshua William Gelb, RN Healey, Michael Levinton*, Meg MacCary*, Daniel Allen Nelson*, Morgan Lindsey Tachco,
Laura von Holt, Kate Weber*
Stage Management...Dominique Nadeau* and Orla Patterson
Assistant Producer...Daniel Wilde
Production Coordinator...John Murphy
Social Media...Kate Purdum
Press Representation...John Wyszniewksi, Everyman Agency
*appears courtesy AEA
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
The Exponential Festival presents / Target Margin Theater's Upstairs Studio (Brooklyn, NY), January 2026 (link to program)
Residency / Showing / Talkback:
Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative (Brooklyn, NY), December 2025
Developmental Residencies:
LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island, October 2025
Mercury Store (Brooklyn, NY), April and November 2023
Aunt Karen's Farm (Mt Vision, NY), October 2022
Additional support has been provided from Clubbed Thumb, made possible by Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.
UNSOLICITED FEEDBACK









Video courtesy of Coffey Street Studio Artist Initiative.
EXTRAS
December 2025's residency with Coffey Street Studio culminated in a public showing and a talkback moderated by arts writer and New York Times contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli.
Photos from the week and video highlights below.




Photos in above gallery by Maria Baranova


Photos by Valerie Terranova




