Nicki Hunter has built her career at MTC for the last 16 seasons, starting at the company as an intern in 2009. During her tenure, she was promoted to Artistic Associate, Line Producer, Artistic Producer and later Associate Artistic Director before being named MTC’s Artistic Director in 2025. Hunter played a vital role in shepherding the Tony Award-winning revival of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day to Broadway, and in the programming and producing efforts for dozens of other productions including Joshua Harmon’s We Had a World; Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane; Qui Nguyen’s Poor Yella Rednecks; Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Anchuli Felicia King’s Golden Shield; David Auburn’s Summer, 1976; Jeff Augustin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Sea; Emily Feldman’s The Best We Could (a family tragedy); James Graham’s Ink; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy; Donja R. Love’s Sugar in Our Wounds; and Simon Stephens’s Heisenberg, among many others. Among her many other accomplishments at MTC, she has championed a directing fellowship in partnership with the Drama League and launched MTC’s Beyond the Stage program. Hunter graduated with high honors from Lehigh University, where she studied both Theatre and Business. She has also served as Creative Director of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year Awards and worked with The Gender and Family Project.