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Biography

Tegan Summer is a West End and Broadway producer, a member of the Broadway League and Society of London Theatre (SOLT), CEO of Tegan Summer Theatricals & Timeless Stage & Screen, and an NAACP and Ovation award-recipient. He is a 2024 recipient of the Political and Public Life Arts & Culture award, presented to him at the House of Commons.

Summer is also on the selection committee for the National Alliance For Musical Theatre (NAMT), the worldwide stage theatrical rights owner for the properties of James Dean, Bettie Page, The Nicholas Brothers, and Amelia Earhart, and holds the life rights for stage musicals for Malcolm X and Harvey Milk.

He is GP and Co-Lead Producer on Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s new musical, Little Dancer, directed by Susan Stroman, set for the West End’s Garrick Theatre in 2024, and was a Producer on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nimax Theatre’s 2023 revival of Aspects of Love at the Lyric Theatre, also in London’s West End. Summer is also a Producer on For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy for Nimax Theatres and The Royal Court in London.

Current and Credited: Producer, Librettist, and Lyricist of the following: Lucky Numbers: The Story of the Peerless Nicholas Brothers with Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company (Jamil Jude Artistic Director) set for December 2024; Mozart: Her Story – The New Musical (Carnegie Hall); Bettie Page, Queen of Pin-Ups * The Musical; Amelia – A Musical Tale of Bravery & Mystery; and the golden era musical, The Dolly Sisters: Icons of the Jazz Age, based on the biography by Gary Chapman.

He is Lead Producer on the Broadway-bound Stormy Weather – The Lena Horne Musical. Summer also wrote and produced the world premiere of Marilyn! – The New Musical (Ogunquit Playhouse | Caesars Entertainment).

Summer is a judge on Birmingham Rep’s Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize (in partnership with The Victoria Wood Foundation), the former Board President of Amas Musical Theatre, former President and current Board member of the Foundation for New American Musicals, and a member of the National Alliance For Musical Theatre and the Dramatists Guild. He remains a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and Equity.