RED EYE NY
Direct from New York City, via NOLA, Berlin, LA, and Fire Island, the Red Eye NY team brings you highly caffeinated queer nightlife & concerts, radio, TV & Film, and virtual streaming events. While this full service spiked-coffee bar pumps out drinks day and night, the hottest performers in nightlife, burlesque & boylesque acts, drag royalty, Broadway triple-threats, and TV’s biggest stars are wired to entertain YOU.
3pm to 4am
Daily Coffee Service
Nightly Entertainment
355 W 41st Street NY, NY 10036 (btw. 8th & 9th)
“I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee”
-Flash Rosenberg
The Club
Join NYC nightlife’s hottest performers, gogo dancers, drag stars, and your favorite DJs on the Red Eye dance floor- regular monthly residencies include Good Friday (Mitch Ferrino, Dropo, Dawson), GOLDILOXX (Nick Laughlin), YUVA presents (DJ DynAmit, Malai), Madonna Worship Night (Chauncey Dandridge), Renegade Circuit (I AM RICH), Darq Disqo (Marti Cummings and Rify Royalty), TARIMI (Lidor Bushary and Jonathan Cohen) and The Devil Wears Nada (Just For.Fans and Dworld).
The audience for RENY is incredibly diverse- gay male, bi, lesbian, trans, & the ever growing ally who enjoy nightlife, dancing, podcasts, live music & theatrical events.
Red Eye Productions
Parlaying their success producing live events pre-pandemic, Nardicio & Benedict shifted their focus over lockdown toward live streaming concerts including Ute Lemper in ‘Rendezvous with Marlene’, RPDR’s Sharon Needles Halloween special ‘Mask it or Casket’, Kim David Smith’s ‘A Wery Weimar Christmas’, and ‘A Love Letter to Liza’, their streak of producing edgy, provocative, yet thoughtful content will continue at Red Eye with a live studio audience.
Podcasts
Our current roster of talent includes the GLAM Award nominated podcast Thotlight, featuring Thotyssey’s Jim Silvestri and Freddie Cosmo, Unpacked with Jan Sport from RuPaul’s Drag Race, CLIFFHANGERS The Podcast with GLAM Award Winners Julie J and Mariyea, and Kiki Ball-Change‘s Iconically Online.
Grab a cocktail and get ready to hear our girls spill the tea! Check out our calendar to find a week day live podcast recording.
The Team
DANIEL NARDICIO
is the producer of seminal events and concerts including his pairing of Liza Minnelli and Alan Cumming on Fire Island and New York’s Town Hall, followed by Carol Channing and Justin Vivian Bond. In 2017 he produced the all-star Edith Piaf Centennial concert on the legend’s actual 100th Birthday at Town Hall, featuring Elaine Paige OBE. He presented “Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs” at Carnegie Hall — based on the live album he co-produced with special guests Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss and Ricki Lake.
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SAM BENEDICT
is a longtime associate and partner with Daniel Nardicio and was recently listed as one of Out Magazine’s TOP 30 Names in Queer Nightlife. He is a producer for the Audible Original podcast, Hot White Heist, featuring an A-list cast of all queer celebrities including Emmy nominees Bowen Yang and MJ Rodriguez, as well as Jane Lynch, Bianca del Rio, Cheyenne Jackson, Cynthia Nixon, Margaret Cho and others.
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TAYLOR SHUBERT
is a staple of New York City nightlife. He is a part of the leadership at Dworld, the team behind Club Cumming and BEDLAM Bar in the East Village, the legendary Dworld Underwear Party on Fire Island, Bette Bathhouse and Beyond in New York City and New Orleans, and Mr. Nude York and Mr. Nude Orleans events. In 2019, Taylor joined Sam Benedict at the Stoli Key West Cocktail Classic, where he and Sam took home first prize.
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ADAM KLESH
is a hospitality manager and General Contractor who transplanted from Cleveland, OH in the early 2000’s to NYC. He is owner and founder along with Kenny Ramcharan of Tipsy Bear, a queer cabaret known as the heart of Prenzlauerberg in Berlin, Germany. Adam met Daniel while putting on the infamous DWorld Loft parties as well as co-hosting D-List radio while the show was the Saturday Night staple of East Village Radio.
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