NIMAX THEATRES - Key Persons

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• General Counsel
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team

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• Head of Finance
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team

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• Member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Operations Director

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• Executive Director
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team

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• Commercial Director
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team

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• Author

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• Chairman
• Owner

Max is an experienced Broadway and off-Broadway producer who has co-produced and helped realise numerous acclaimed productions, including Sleuth, Equus, The Elephant Man, Rose, Timbuktu, Mass Appeal, Passion, and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Piaf. His credits include Tickles by Tucholsky, The Good Parts, Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Road to Mecca, the Tony Award-winning Dracula, Going Up, Harold and Maude, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dracula, and The Will Rogers Follies which won six Tony Awards including Best Musical. In 1999 he started co-producing with Nica Burns in London. Productions include: Scissor Happy, Defending The Caveman (2000 Oliver Award), Medea starring Fiona Shaw directed by Deborah Warner (2001 Evening Standard Award for Best Actress and Best Director), Feelgood (2001 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , A Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic and Broadway), Pygmalion starring Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon, Long Day's Journey into Night, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at starring Kim Cattrall, a co-production with the Old Vic, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, A Little Night Music (London and Broadway), Aspects of Love and The Producers. Max is also routinely recognised as one of the most influential people in British theatre by The Stage.

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Owner

After reading law at UCL, Nica trained at Webber Douglas drama school and was a successful actress before starting her own theatre company, performing at the Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. This led to her becoming the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse (1983-89). She became an independent producer before being head hunted by Janet Holmes à Court to lead on the creative side of Stoll Moss which became Really Useful Theatres, as Production Director (1993-2005) programming 11 theatres while continuing to produce her own work. In 2005 she founded Nimax Theatres. She was elected President of the Society of London Theatre (2008-10) and Vice President (2011-13). Nica has had a long involvement in the comedy industry and since 1984 has been Director and Producer of the most prestigious comedy prize in the United Kingdom, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Post COVID, she was the first theatre owner to reopen all her theatres at 50% capacity with the Rising Stars Festival, introducing 23 new and emerging producers to the West End. In 2021 Nica was recognised with the following awards: Producer of the Year at The Stage awards 2021, a Commendation for Exceptional Theatre Making During Lockdown at the Critics Circle Awards, an Evening Standard Special Award for Theatre and a Special Award for Services to UK Theatre at the WhatsOnStage Awards. Nica is consistently recognised in The Stage 100 as one of the top three most influential people in British theatre and the performing arts. Among her many accolades, she was made a Fellow of University College London in 2007 and in 2013, she won Private Business Woman of the Year at the UK Private Business Awards. She was awarded an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in the 2013 New Year's honours list and a CBE in the 2024 Birthday Honours, both for services to theatre. Nica has produced over 100 shows which include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Christian Slater, Long Day's Journey into Night starring David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf, the award-winning premiere of Everybody's Talking About Jamie, and most recently two seasons of Ryan Calais Cameron's For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy.

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• Executive Assistant
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team

Nimax Theatres aspires and succeeds in delivering exceptional live and in-venue experiences with creativity, care, and impact. We're a close-knit team; unafraid to innovate, powered by passion, and guided by our unwavering commitment to putting audiences first. We're here to put on great shows to packed houses and deliver a fantastic audience experience in beautiful buildings.

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• Finance Director
• Member of the Senior Leadership Team