Concord Theatricals has announced that Victoria Traube will step down from her post as executive vice president of business and legal affairs. Traube will leave her longtime position on August 30, but will remain with the licensing house, which includes Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, as an advisor.
At Concord, Traube was responsible for the firm’s premier licensing, business and legal affairs, including, but not limited to, all titles under the Rodgers and Hammerstein and Rodgers and Hart umbrellas. Traube joined the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization in 1995 and served as Executive Vice President/Business Affairs and General Counsel until Concord acquired the organization in 2017.
“I come from a theater family and fell in love with theater when I saw my first Broadway show at age five,” Traube said in a statement. “I am fortunate to have spent 50 years working for iconic companies with wonderful people in the business I love. I was particularly fortunate to see Concord acquire and expand the theater business and launch a film and television division after acquiring Rodgers and Hammerstein in 2017. The years at Concord have been full and exciting. I am excited to continue to serve as an advisor to Concord and several others in the industry that have no comparable business.”
“Vicky is rightly loved throughout the theater business for her extensive knowledge, wise advice, calm negotiation skills and subtle sense of humor,” noted Sean Patrick Flahaven, Concord’s theater director. “She has closed countless major deals for Rodgers and Hammerstein and Concord, including dozens of great, award-winning productions. Personally, I value her friendship and traveling companionship. I am glad we can continue to benefit from her advice.”
Prior to Traube’s career at Rodgers and Hammerstein and Concord, he spent seven years as vice president and head of New York film and theater business affairs at International Creative Management, six years as senior counsel and director of business affairs at Home Box Office, Inc., and twelve years as a partner at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
For her decades of work in the industry, Traube received the 2019 Abbott Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the union that represents directors and choreographers. Traube remains the only person who is neither a director nor a choreographer to receive this honor.
Concord’s legal team includes Amanda Molter, general counsel, and Caroline Barnard, senior vice president of business and legal affairs. Traube’s successor has not yet been announced.