Kevin McCollum

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Kevin McCollum is a Broadway producer (b. March 1, 1962).

McCollum graduated from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1984.[1] He earned his Master’s degree in film producing from the Peter Stark Program at the University of Southern California.[2] In 1995, he received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing.[3]

McCollum formerly served as the president and CEO of Ordway Music Theater's, where he was appointed in 1995[4]

McCollum co-founded The Booking Group, Broadway's premiere Booking Agency representing more than 18 Tony Award winning plays and Musicals since its inception.[5] He also co-founded The Producing Office with Jeffrey Seller in 1996.[6][7]

Through a career that has spanned over twenty-five years in the theatre industry, McCollum has received three Tony Awards for Best Musical for In the Heights (2008), Avenue Q (2004), and Rent (1996). Other producing credits include Motown the Musical (Broadway and tour), The Drowsy Chaperone (five 2006 Tony Awards), Baz Luhrmann's La Bohème (two 2002 Tony Awards), the hit revival of West Side Story (2009), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (2011), and [title of show] (2008).

McCollum was co-producer of the musical Rent in 1996, winner of that year's Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score and Best Featured Actor.[8] It also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making it only the fifth musical to ever win both the Pulitzer and the Tony.[9] It also won six Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical.[10] In 2005 he served as executive producer for the movie version of Rent.[11]

He is currently represented on Broadway by Something Rotten! and Hand to God both of which opened in the spring of 2014. In February of 2015, Motown the Musical will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre on London's West End.[12]

Productions and Accolades

  • 2014, Something Rotten, ten Tony Award nominations, nine Drama Desk nominations
  • 2014, Hand to God, five Tony Award nominations
  • 2013, Motown The Musical, Broadway and touring company
  • 2011, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, 3 Tony Award nominations, 2 Drama Desk Awards
  • 2009, Irving Berlin's White Christmas,
  • 2009, Ragtime, Six Tony Award nominations, 1 Drama Desk Award
  • 2008 [title of show], 1 Tony Nomination
  • 2008 In the Heights, 5 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Nomination Drama[13]
  • 2006, High Fidelity, 1 Tony Award Nomination
  • 2006 The Drowsy Chaperone, 5 Tony Awards, 7 Drama Desk Awards
  • 2003 Avenue Q, 3 Tony Awards, 5 Drama Desk Awards
  • 2002 La Bohème, 3 Tony Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards
  • 2002 Private Lives, 3 Tony Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards
  • 2001 45 Seconds from Broadway
  • 1999, De La Guarda
  • 1996 Rent, 4 Tony Awards, 6 Drama Desk Awards, Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
  • 1994 What's Wrong With This Picture?
  • 1994 The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
  • 1994 Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, 2 Tony Award nominations, 3 Drama Desk nominations
  • 1994 Damn Yankees, 4 Tony Award nominations, 3 Drama Desk nominations

In 2011, McCollum founded Alchemation, a theatre and media company under McCollum's leadership. Productions under the Alchemation banner include Motown the Musical, Something Rotten!, Hand to God and the third season of theatrical web-series Submissions Only. In the summer of 2013, McCollum entered a joint venture with 20th Century Fox to develop titles from the Fox catalogue into stage properties.[14]

In 2005, Kevin McCollum was invited to give the commencement address for the graduating class at University of Cincinnati.[15] Effective of August 2015, McCollum will be appointed to the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a role that will continue for three years and will include work with faculty and administrators to develop a new musical theatre incubator program at CCM.

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