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Nica Burns Producer
Artistic director, Donmar Warehouse 1983-89; director and producer Edinburgh Comedy Awards (formerly the Perrier Awards), the UK’s leading live comedy awards from 1984 to the present day; production director of Really Useful Theatres from 1993-2005; owner and chief executive of Nimax Theatres Ltd from 2005, president of Society of London Theatres since 2008.
Productions since 2000: Medea starring Fiona Shaw directed by Deborah Warner (Queen’s and Broadway), Feelgood by Alistair Beaton (Garrick), Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace), My Brilliant Divorce starring Dawn French (Apollo 2004), Sitting Pretty by Amy Rosenthal (tour 2005), Christian Slater in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud 2004), David Suchet in Man and Boy (Duchess 2005), Who’s the Daddy? by Toby Young and Lloyd Evans (King’s Head 2005) and David Schwimmer in Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute (Gielgud 2005).
Recently, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Apollo),the reprise of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring Christian Slater and Alex Kingston (Garrick), Breakfast with Mugabe (Duchess), Fool for Love starring Juliette Lewis (Apollo), See How They Run (Duchess), A Moon for the Misbegotten starring Kevin Spacey (Old Vic and Broadway), Swimming with Sharks starring Christian Slater (Vaudeville) and Rain Man starring Josh Hartnett (Apollo). In 2009: Three Days of Rain starring James McAvoy (Apollo) and Endgame starring Simon McBurney and Mark Rylance (Duchess).
Nica owns five of London’s most beautiful playhouses, the Lyric, Apollo, Garrick, Duchess and Vaudeville Theatres, with her business partner Max Weitzenhoffer. She is chief executive of their company, Nimax Theatres Ltd.
