Nica Burns CBE, an award winning producer of over 100 productions, has produced the following shows:

In 2025:

The Producers (Garrick)
The sold out Menier Chocolate Factory transfer

Retrograde (Apollo)
The sold out Kiln Theatre transfer

Unicorn (Garrick)
Starring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan, and Erin Doherty

In 2024:

Red Pitch (@sohoplace)

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Garrick)

In 2023:

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour & The Peacock)

The Little Big Things (@sohoplace)
Winner – 2024 Olivier Award: Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Amy Trigg)
Winner – 2024 WhatsOnStage Stage Award for Best Casting (Jill Green)

Aspects of Love (Lyric)
Starring Michael Ball

Brokeback Mountain (@sohoplace)
Starring Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges

Medea (@sohoplace)
Starring Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Apollo)

In 2022:

As You Like It (@sohoplace)
Starring Leah Harvey, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Alfred Enoch and Martha Plimpton
Winner – 2023 The Stage Debut Awards: Best West End Debut Performer (Rose Ayling-Ellis)

Marvellous (@sohoplace)
The first production staged @sohoplace

In 2021:

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour)

In 2020:

City of Angels (Garrick)
Starring Vanessa Williams, Theo James, Nicola Roberts, Hadley Fraser, and Rosalie Craig

In 2019:

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK Tour)

The Worst Witch (Vaudeville)
Winner – 2020 Olivier Award: Best Family Show

Emilia (Vaudeville)
Winner – 2020 Olivier Award: Best Entertainment or Comedy Play,
Winner – 2020 Olivier Award: Best Sound Design
Winner – 2020 Olivier Award: Best Costume Design

Don Quixote (Garrick)
Starring David Threlfall and Rufus Hound

In 2017:

Wilde Creatures (Vaudeville)

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo)
The award-winning Sheffield Theatre production by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae
Winner – 2017 UK Theatre Award: Best Musical Production
Winner – 2017 UK Theatre Award: Best Performance in A Musical (John McCrea)
Winner – 2017 Attitude Culture Award
Winner – 2017 The Stage Debut Awards: Best Composer Award (Dan Gillespie-Sells)
Winner – 2018 WhatsOnStage Awards: Best Actor in a Musical (John McCrea)
Winner – 2018 WhatsOnStage Awards: Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Lucie Shorthouse)
Winner – 2018 WhatsOnStage Awards: Best New Musical
Winner – 2019 WhatsOnStage Awards: Best Original Cast Recording

The Mentor (Vaudeville)
Starring F. Murray Abraham

Love in Idleness (Apollo)
The Menier Chocolate Factory transfer starring Eve Best and Anthony Head

In 2016:

James Graham’s This House (Garrick)
Starring Stefan Rhodri, Nathanial Parker, and Phil Daniels

Terry Johnson’s Dead Funny (Vaudeville)
Starring Katherine Parkinson

Hand to God (Vaudeville)
Starring Janie Dee and Neil Pearson

Nell Gwynn (Apollo)
Starring Gemma Arterton (transfer from Shakespeare’s Globe)
Winner – 2016 Olivier Award: Best New Comedy

In 2015: 

The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville)
Starring David Suchet

Just Jim Dale (Vaudeville)

My Night With Reg (Apollo)

In 2014: 

Wind In The Willows (Vaudeville)

Bakersfield Mist (Duchess)
Starring Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid

Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby (Duchess)

In 2013: 

The Wind in the Willows (Duchess)
Winner – 2014 Oliver Awards: Best Entertainment and Family

The Duck House (Vaudeville)

Twelve Angry Men (Garrick)

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Duchess)
Co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre

Sweet Bird of Youth (The Old Vic)
Co-production with The Old Vic starring Kim Cattrall and Seth Numrich
Winner – 2013 Evening Standard Awards: Best Newcomer (Seth Numrich)

In 2012: 

The Boy With Tape on His Face (Duchess)

Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville)

Volcano (Vaudeville)

Hurly Burly (Duchess)

Written On The Heart (Duchess)

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Apollo)
Starring David Suchet, Laurie Metcalfe
Winner – 2013 Olivier Awards: Best Revival

The Madness of King George III (Apollo)

In 2011: 

Meow Meow (Apollo)

Pygmalion (Garrick)

Ecstasy (Duchess)

In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville)

An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville)

In 2010: 

When We Are Married (Garrick)

Design for Living (The Old Vic)
Starring Andrew Scott, Lisa Dillon, and Tom Burke

Ghosts (Duchess)

In 2009: 

Timing (King’s Head)

The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville)
Starring Lesley Sharp, Marc Warren, and Diana Vickers

Endgame (Duchess)
Starring Mark Rylance and Simon McBurney

Collaboration (Duchess)

Taking Sides (Duchess)

A Little Night Music (Garrick)

Three Days of Rain (Apollo)
Starring James McAvoy and Nigel Harman

In 2008: 

Rain Man (Apollo)
Starring Josh Hartnett
Winner – 2009 WhatsOnStage Award: London Newcomer of the Year (Josh Hartnett)

Deep Blue Sea (Vaudeville)
Starring Greta Scacchi

In 2007: 

Swimming With Sharks (Vaudeville)
Starring Christian Slater

Kean (Apollo)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (UK Tour)

In 2006: 

A Moon for the Misbegotten (The Old Vic)
Starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best
Winner – 2007 WhatsOnStage Award: Best Actor in a Play (Kevin Spacey)

Summer and Smoke (Apollo)
Starring Rosamund Pike and Chros Carmack

See How They Run (Duchess)

Fool for Love (Apollo)

Breakfast with Mugabe (Duchess)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Garrick)
Starring Christian Slater and Alex Kingston

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Apollo)
Starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin
Winner – 2006 Evening Standard Award: Best Actress
Winner – 2007 WhatsOnStage Award: Best Play Revival

In 2005: 

Who’s The Daddy (King’s Head)

Some Girls (Gielgud)
Starring David Schwimmer

A Life In The Theatre (Apollo)
Starring Patrick Stewart and Joshua Jackson

Man and Boy (Duchess)
Starring David Suchet

Sitting Pretty (New Wolsey – Ipswich & Watford Palace)

In 2004:

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Gielgud)
Starring Christian Slater
Winner – 2005 WhatsOnStage Award: Best Actor in a Play (Christian Slater)
Winner – 2005 WhatsOnStage Award: Best Play Revival

In 2003:

My Brilliant Divorce (Apollo)
Starring Dawn French

In 2002:

This Is Our Youth (Garrick)
Winner – 2003 WhatsOnStage Award: Best New Comedy
Winner – 2003 WhatsOnStage Award: London Newcomer of the Year (Jake Gyllenhaal)

In 2001:

Dangerous Corner (Garrick)

Kiss Me Kate (Victoria Palace Theatre)
Winner – 2001 Evening Standard Award: Best Musical
Winner – 2002 WhatsOnStage Award: Best Musical Revival

Feelgood (Hampstead Theatre, then to the Garrick)
Winner – 2001 Evening Standard Award: Best Comedy
Winner – 2002 WhatsOnStage Award: Best New Comedy

Medea (Queens Theatre then Brooks Atkinson, Broadway)
Starring Fiona Shaw
Winner – 2001 Evening Standard Award: Best Actress
Winner – 2001 Evening Standard Award: Best Director

Pre-2000:

1999 – Scissor Happy (UK Tour)

1999 – Defending the Caveman (Apollo)
Winner – 2000 Oliver Award: Best Entertainment

1997 – Fascinating Aida (Apollo)

1997 – Scissor Happy (Duchess)

1997 – It, With, Don’t Give a Shit Girls – (Vaudeville)

1995 – Kaliber No Limits Tour (UK Tour)

1994 – Fascinating Aida (UK Tour)

1994 – Fascinating Aida (Garrick)

1994 – Fascinating Aida (Lyric Hammersmith)

1992 – Mike McShane; The Really Unexpected Tour (Assmebly and UK Tour)

1992 – Eleanor Bron (Pleasance)

1992 – Citizen Keane (Edinburgh Festival)

1992 – You Never Know Who’s Out there (Drill Hall)

1991 – Singular Women (Purcell Rooms)

1991 – Hell Ben and Heaven Bond (Edinburgh Festival)

1991 – Single Again (Edinburgh Festival)

1990 – Comedy Store Players (UK Tour)

1989 – Eartha Kitt (Shaftesbury)

1987 – Fascinating Aida (Piccadilly)

1982 – Play Strindberg by Nica Burns and Colin Watkeys (Colgate)

1982 – A Little Cabaret for Bertolt Brecht (Buster Browns)

1981 – Dulcima (Celtic Lodge)

Artistic Directorship of the Donmar Warehouse

From 1983–89, Nica was Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, a 251-seat, Off-West End theatre in Covent Garden.

1989 – The Doctor of Honour (Donmar Warehouse)

1989 – The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse)

1988 – Simplicity (Donmar Warehouse)

1988 – Victor & Barry (Donmar Warehouse)

1987 – Lady Day (Donmar Warehouse)

1987 – A Family Affair (Donmar Warehouse)

1987 – Blues In The Night (Donmar Warehouse)

1986 – Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse)

1986 – Noel and Gertie (Donmar Warehouse)

1986 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Donmar Warehouse)

1986 – The Cid (Donmar Warehouse)

1985 – Songs for Stray Cats and Other Living Creatures (Donmar Warehouse)

1985 – The Man of Mode (Donmar Warehouse)

1985 – Kern Goes To Hollywood (Donmar Warehouse)

1985 – Harry’s Christmas (Donmar Warehouse)

1985 – Bailegangaire (Donmar Warehouse)

1984 – Poppie Nongena (Donmar Warehouse)

1984 – The Jew of Malta (Donmar Warehouse)

1984 – Gymslip Vicar (Donmar Warehouse)

1984 – Andromache (Donmar Warehouse)

1983 – West (Donmar Warehouse)

1983 – The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse)