Mike Baldassari is a Tony® and 2-time Emmy® nominated Lighting Designer whose work has been seen live in more than 25 countries. In addition to designing many Broadway shows, he created the theatrical lighting for the films: Spinal Tap 2 (post-production), Ghostbusters, Nine, Rock of Ages, Joyful Noise, and Neil Young Trunk Show among others. Some of his Episodic Television shows include: The Problem with Jon Stewart for Apple+, David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction for Netflix, and Game Theory with Bomani Jones for HBO.
He adapted the lighting of the Broadway shows Just For Us for HBO and Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night for Broadway HD. Other television designs include the (RED) Concert Broadcast from Times Square with U2, Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin, U2’s Top of The Rock performance for The Tonight Show, episodes of Documentary Now!, as well as pre-tapes for Saturday Night Live and Seth Meyers. He has designed many comedy specials for Netflix, Amazon, Comedy Central and YouTube including for Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K., John Mulaney, Bill Burr (at Fenway Park), Ray Romano, Pete Davidson, Joe Rogan, Ronny Chieng, Kevin James, Catherine Cohen, Dana Carvey, Sam Jay and Bridget Everett. He has designed Turn-key Podcast Studios for: Andrew Schulz’ show Flagrant, The Brilliant Idiots and Don Lemon.