Jay Lerner-Z said: "Seems like things will carry on as ever, with little discernible difference. Like a royal family, with an anointed heir."
I don't know Nicki at all, but seeing as the other Broadway nonprofits all went with external candidates for replacement (and one of the companies is supposedly having something of a pained transition), this seems like a totally solid choice!
Continuity isn't a bad thing. Nicki knows their donor base and subscribers, she has the institutional knowledge of what's worked well and what hasn't, and it means that the artistic development pipeline isn't totally upended by a new leader coming in.
She's also 38, so it's a generational shift. Lynne Meadow will be 79 at the time of her retirement.
An internal successor also looks really good for the outgoing AD: it shows that Meadow was able to effectively nurture a successor, in the way that the other major nonprofits did not.
Updated On: 9/25/25 at 12:13 PM
