Nina Lannan

Founding Partner

Nina Lannan's career began in 1980 and spans more than 50 major shows on Broadway. It includes two years as Chair of The Broadway League. She was the first female to occupy that position in the organization's 80-year history. In 2009 Crain's Business named her one of the 50 most powerful women in New York and in 2010 The League awarded her its Distinguished Lifetime Service Award. She subsequently received the New York City Spotlight Award, presented by the Mayor's Office and the Broadway League. She began working with R. Tyler Gatchell, Jr. and Peter Neufeld at Gatchell and Neufeld, Ltd., a legendary general management office in 1980 and while there began her long association with the musical CATS which she worked on for its entire 18 year run on Broadway. She then began to work for The Really Useful Company as its in-house general manager for all its productions in North and South America. In 1998 she opened her own office, Nina Lannan Associates before becoming the founder of Bespoke Theatricals. She has extensive experience in touring having managed multiple tours of CATS, Annie Get Your Gun, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Thoroughly Modern Millie, multiple companies of Mamma Mia!, Dirty Dancing, The Color Purple, Legally Blonde, 9 to 5, and Billy Elliot. In June 2017, she accepted a Tony Honor for her work in the theatre.