Nicki Heskin

Biography

Nicki Heskin (she/her/hers) joins LMU as the Clinical Assistant Professor of Production Management as an Arts Manager, AEA Stage Manager Educator, and Freelance Director who has worked throughout the Greater Los Angeles Region for the last decade. Nicki recently taught Stage Management as an Adjunct Professor for LMU, mentoring Stage Managers for New Works, in Spring 2023, as well as Stage Management for Theatre at Cypress College in Fall 2023.

Selected Stage Management credits include: Center Theatre Group (PSM, To T or Not To T), South Coast Repertory (ASM, The Canadians, Last Stop on Market Street), The Wallis (PSM, Reckoning: A Short Play Festival), Ojai Playwrights Conference (2024 PSM and SM, Thursdays Come at Morning and In Celebration and 2022 SM, To Red Tendons), Musical Theatre West (ASM, Catch Me if You Can), Lewis Family Playhouse (PSM - CATS, Into The Woods, The Music Man); Knott’s Berry Farm (SM, Frontier Feats of Wonder Stunt Show), Three Brothers LLC (Short-Term/Sub 1st ASM, The Lehman Trilogy, Ahmanson Theatre).

As an Arts Manager, Nicki served as the General Manager/Production Manager at Boston Court Pasadena for their 20th Anniversary Season in 2023, the Temporary COVID Communication Manager for Center Theatre Group through their return from pandemic shutdown in 2022, served as Production Manager at Ophelia’s Jump Productions in 2018-2019 and produced/production managed civic theater at Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga from 2015-2018.

Selected Directing Credits Include: Bad Jews, Ophelia’s Jump Productions; Gidion’s Knot, Circle Mirror Transformation, Women’s Theatre Workshop; Assistant Director: Parade, 42nd Street, 3-D Theatricals.

Nicki has a dual MBA/MA Arts Management from Drucker School of Management/Center for Business and Management of the Arts at Claremont Graduate University. She went back to school in August 2020 unexpectedly, looking for tools to help to motivate the evolution of LA’s theatrical ecosystem to a more sustainable, less exploitative economic and operational model. This lens informs her daily practice as an instructor, manager and stage manager and she looks forward to learning and growing with new groups of students each semester.

Education (3)

Claremont Graduate University: MBA, Arts Management 2022

Claremont Graduate University: MA, Arts Management 2023

UCLA: BA, Sociology 1995

Areas of Expertise (6)

Non-Profit Administration

Arts Management

Production Management

Stage Management

General Management (Theatrical)

Event Management

Industry Expertise (1)

Performing Arts

Affiliations (3)

• Actors' Equity Association Member and Volunteer
• Stage Managers Association of the United States Board of Trustees Member
• Inland Valley Repertory Theatre

Links (1)

• LinkedIn