In 1989, Fishelson joined the staff of the Off-Broadway repertory theatre company "Jean Cocteau Rep"[REF][REF] (a.k.a.
In 1999, Fishelson founded his own theater company - the nonprofit, 140-seat, Off-Broadway "Manhattan Ensemble Theatre" ("MET") - with a stated mission "to create new theatrical adaptations of stories found in fiction, journalism, film, biography and memoir."[REF][REF]