Dominick Balletta opened HIGH HARD HEAT in 2024 as a way to centralize all of his activities in the world of performing arts. His work spans both the commercial and non-profit sectors. With National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, he was the NYC Originating Producer for Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s HARMONY, which transferred to Broadway in October of 2023 following an award winning sold out run Off Broadway in 2022. He was also the lead producer of the 2022 revival of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN YIDDISH, directed by Joel Grey, at New World Stages, and the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s opera THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS in partnership with New York City Opera. In November of 2023 he produced the world premiere of AMID FALLING WALLS, presenting through Yiddish music and poetry rescued from ghettos, displaced persons camps and other locations, first person testimony of how Jews lived and resisted the forces of the Holocaust. AMID FALLING WALLS received the 2024 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.
As a theatrical producer he received a Tony Award nomination as a producer of Moisés Kaufman's 33 VARIATIONS, starring Jane Fonda, a highlight of his thirteen year tenure with Tectonic Theater Project.
In film, he is a Producer of Scott Freiman’s DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES series, as well a pair of films directed by Jonathan Demme: Executive Producer of ANOTHER TELEPATHIC THING and Associate Producer of I’M CAROLYN PARKER.
As a non profit executive, he has held senior level positions with National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Jacob Burns Film Center, Film Forum, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Pan Asian Repertory Theater.
Since 2011, he has served as an Advisor/Associate Consultant to the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, working with organizations globally on issues of strategic planning, in addition to private clients.
He has served as a panelist for multiple New York State Council on the Arts grant programs, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, ArtsWestchester, and CEC/ArtsLink.
He currently serves on the Industry Board for ArcStages, located in Pleasantville, NY