05/28/2026
Message from our Executive Producer, Michael Krentzman
When I knew I was ready to start my own company.
I got my real start at six years old when my parents gifted me with a camcorder for Christmas. We recently found the old footage on VHS and my mother digitized for the family. Wide eyed excitement and screams of joy. Perhaps because it was a nicer gift at the moment than my older brother and sister. From there I was always playing with camcorders and filming.
My official paying start in production happened in 2005, when I was hired as a Production Assistant during the height of the MSLO era. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. A glorious time at the Starrett-Lehigh Building on West 26th & the AMV Building near FIT. My most important job? Starbucks runs for the control room staff, and if you have ever tried to carry two trays of coffee through busy NYC streets and production floors without losing a single cup, you know that is no small feat. My time at Martha was incredible and opened my eyes to to production and what my good friend Roger Maroni would always say “Mike, we all know showbusiness, but don’t forget the business of the show”
On non-show days I was driving all over New York City picking up props, flowers, and food for the various departments at Martha. Whatever was needed, I got it done, and I loved it.
That hustle took me from PA to Location Coordinator to Associate Producer at Martha Stewart. Then over to Rachael Ray as an Associate Producer & Camera Operator. I joke that since I was a staff member and an extra camera op that the hired crew had to deal with, they made me a pretty great camera op so I could be helpful. Back then we used lights with actual bulbs ;)
After four straight years on daytime TV, I left the comfort zone for something new and uncontrollable. Freelance.
A lot happened in between and as time went by, I started asking myself a question. What if I built something of my own? Not just a career. A company. Something I could grow, shape, and pour everything into. I wanted to bet on myself and see how far that could take me. My wife gets the biggest shout out for support because she was the one giving me the extra confidence, the extra push, the extra “you can do it”...
So I did. And that became Red Summit Productions. I moved from freelance Producer to DP and now EPof a NYC based production company and we are proudly out of the Grand Central Building and coming up on 16 years of business.
I would not be here without the crews who took me under their wing early on, my wife and family who supported this dream before it had a name, and every client and collaborator who believed in us along the way.
Sixteen years later I am more grateful than ever. And I'm still learning every single day.
Thank you
Mike Krentzman, Owner and EP, Red Summit Productions
