Nelle Nugent

Distinguished Broadway Producer

An award-winning Broadway producer, Nelle Nugent has been involved in theater for more than five decades, dating back to her first role as stage manager for The Great Indoors (1966). She held similar stage management roles on productions including A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1968), Home Fries (1969), Sherlock Holmes (1974), and Habeas Corpus (1975). Nugent produced her first play, Dracula, in 1977; it won the Tony Award the following year for Most Innovative Production of a Revival.

Tony Award for Best Play

Nugent won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1979 for her work as a producer of The Elephant Man (1979). She has since received the following Tony Awards: Best Revival for Morning’s at Seven (1980), Best Play for Amadeus (1981), and Best Play for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982). She also produced Tony-nominated productions such as The Dresser (1982), Much Ado About Nothing (1985), Leader of the Pack (1985), and The Trip to Bountiful (2013). Nelle Nugent’s productions have also garnered two New York Drama Critics Awards and two Obies, among other awards.

producer credits in film and TV

Nugent’s most recent Broadway productions include Love Letters (2014), M. Butterfly (2017), and Latin History for Morons (2017). Combined, she has produced in excess of 60 Broadway, off-Broadway, touring, and West End productions. Complementing her extensive stage production experience, she is a member of the Producers Guild of America. She co-launched its East Coast chapter with producer John Schwally in 2001.

In addition to her work in theater, Nugent has a dozen producer credits in film and TV. She executive produced a TV movie adaptation of Morning’s at Seven in 1982 and has since produced TV movies such as Morning Maggie (1987), Final Verdict (1991), In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997), and After the Storm (2001). She also produced the Broadway show and TV special documentary of John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown in 2011 and 2014, respectively.