Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, creators and executive producers, said, “People may know the story of Anne Frank and her family, but what happened outside the annex walls was just as powerful, inspiring and resonant.

Source: https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/a-small-light-national-geographic-sets-premiere-date-for-drama-series-about-miep-gies/

Max Thieriot stars in the show, from Jerry Bruckheimer, and created it with Tony Phelan and Joan Rater.

Source: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/most-popular-tv-shows-highest-rated-2022-2023-season-yellowstone-football-1235623612/

She couldn’t believe it,” Ms Rater says of her 20-year-old.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/anne-frank-miep-gies-a-small-light-series-b2325308.html

Veteran television writers and producers Joan Rater and her husband Tony Phelan (after visiting the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam about seven years ago with their family and reading a fact about Giep.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/04/27/we-have-to-remember-cast-and-crew-of-new-miniseries-a-small-light-talk-about-holocaust-era-heroism/