Carter Anne McGowan began her legal career as an agent at the Artists Group East before moving on to Richard Frankel Productions where she worked as Director of Business Affairs for nearly a decade, serving on the production legal team for over 100 Broadway, Off Broadway, regional, developmental and touring productions including The Producers, Hairspray, Stomp, Swing, Sweeney Todd and Forever Tango.

As Production Counsel for TUS/Nederlander San Francisco, she represented TUS’ interests in San Francisco’s Marines Memorial and Post Street Theatres and productions presented there including Burn The Floor, Here Lies Jenny, Trumbo, Addicted, and Love, Janis and the Nederlander Detroit production of Mitch Albom’s Duck Hunter Shoots Angel. In addition to general managers and producers, Carter Anne represents playwrights, composers, orchestrators, arrangers, directors, filmmakers, performers, and designers.

Carter Anne serves on the faculty of the Arts Management programs at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University and Brooklyn College where she teaches courses in entertainment and performing arts law. She has spoken on entertainment law issues at Lafayette College, Ithaca College, the Women’s Project, and at the American Society for Theatre Research and has been published in the Cornell Journal of Law of Public Policy, the Seton Hall Sports Law Journal, and the Fordham Journal of Entertainment, Intellectual Property, and Media Law. She is also a produced playwright and screenwriter.

Carter Anne received her undergraduate degree from St. John’s University, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in history and a professional certificate in athletic administration. She received her law degree from Cornell Law School, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. In addition, she received an MFA in Theatre with a concentration in Performing Arts Management from CUNY/Brooklyn College and another MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’S Tisch School of the Arts.