About

Founded by Nathaniel Sam Shapiro, Ermine Productions (formerly Red Moon Theater Company) presents artistic works that challenge and provoke through mode, content, and delivery: theater that introduces new worlds, new ideas, and new forms. Through engagement with issues of our time, the company hopes to expose audiences to deep-seated truths. It is dedicated to the production of new works of expansive constitution, standing on the shoulders of tradition and taking audiences into new territory. In a world where technology provides spectacle from around the globe in an instant, theater, film, and art must rise to the competition and project its own distinct performative power.

Nathaniel Sam Shapiro is a playwright, filmmaker, and founder of Ermine Productions. Born in New York City, he attended Brown University for a Bachelors in Literary Arts, and then completed his Masters in Fine Arts at the NYU Tisch Goldberg Dramatic Writing Department. In 2014, he received his first Off Broadway production of the play The Erlkings (Theater Row, directed by Saheem Ali). He has received awards and honorable mentions from the American Playwriting Foundation, the Saroyan Playwriting Prize, the Disquiet International Festival, and the Goldberg Play Prize. His work has been performed in New York, Rhode Island, and Lisbon, Portugal. Diaspora (Red Moon’s first production, Gym at Judson) is to be his second full length play performed in New York City. He is currently working on a documentary set in Palm Beach, Florida.