Shortly thereafter, Saavedra left to become Director of Operations at Big Time Picture Company, a post-production and film editing facility on Los Angeles’ west side.
[7] In 2004, Saavedra teamed with Michael Shulman, a recent Yale graduate and former child actor, including a role as a teenager in Rhapsody in Bloom, to form Starry Night Entertainment.
[14][15][16] Starry Night followed up White People the following year with Craig Wright (playwright)'s Mistakes Were Made featuring a tour-de-force performance by Michael Shannon at Barrow Street Theatre.
Starry Night Entertainment also produced the play The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which opened on Broadway on April 20, 2014, at the Cort Theatre.
In 2016, Saavedra and Shulman produced the Broadway revival of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring Liev Schreiber, which opened at the Booth Theatre on October 30 and ran through January 8, 2017.
Saavedra was part of the producing team that brought the acclaimed UK National Theatre production set in rural Northern Ireland c. 1981 to Broadway.
In 2020, Saavedra was among a group of producers who transferred the acclaimed London production of Ben Power's adaptation of Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre.