Creative Connect: Kevin McCollum, Broadway Producer

    Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM until 1:15 PMCentral Daylight Time UTC -05:00


    Frances Searle, Dean's Conference Room (1-180)
    2240 Campus Dr
    Evanston, IL 60201
    United States

    Please join us for our third Creative Connect of 2025, with Tony Award-winning theatre producer, Kevin McCollum! This event is free and open to the public, lunch will be provided for all attendees. The discussion will be moderated by Jorge Silva, Managing Director, Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts.

    Kevin McCollum is one of the most prolific and successful Broadway producers of all time, with a career spanning 30 years in the theatre industry. In 2011, he founded Alchemation, a theatrical and media producing company committed to the development and presentation of new work which has mounted productions on Broadway, the West End, and on tour throughout the United States.


    Kevin received the Tony Award for Best Musical for: Rent (1996), Avenue Q (2004) and In the Heights (2008).

    Current: SIX (Broadway, North American tour); Oh Mary! (Broadway); The Devil Wears Prada (West End); The Play That Goes Wrong (Off-Broadway).

    Additional Past Credits Include: The Notebook (Broadway); Days of Wine and Roses (Broadway); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Broadway); Mrs. Doubtfire (Broadway and West End); Motown: The Musical (Broadway, West End, U.K. and U.S. tours); The Drowsy Chaperone (Broadway, UK and US Tours); Something Rotten! (Broadway, U.S. tour); Hand to God (Broadway, West End); Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème (Broadway); West Side Story (film) (2021) directed by Steven Spielberg.

    Upcoming: Black SwanNight At The Museum, 42 Balloons.

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