Alchemation
noun
al·​che·​ma·​tion \ ˈal-kə-ˌmā- shən \

 

1. the combination of Alchemy and Imagination that is essential to the art of theater; 2. a producing and management company founded in 2011 by award-winning producer Kevin McCollum  

Kevin McCollum
Founder & President

 
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Kevin McCollum is one of the most prolific and successful Broadway producers with a career spanning 25 years in the theatre industry. Kevin has received the Tony Award for Best Musical for In the Heights (2008), Avenue Q (2004), and Rent (1996), which also won the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. McCollum is currently represented on Broadway with SIX and Mrs. Doubtfire, and off-Broadway and on tour with the Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong. Mr. McCollum’s upcoming projects include the Broadway productions of The Devil Wears Prada and The Notebook, along with the new adaptation of West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg.

He produced Motown: The Musical (Broadway, West End, UK & US Tours), Something Rotten! (Broadway, National Tour), Hand to God (Broadway, West End), The Drowsy Chaperone (Broadway), Mike Birbiglia’s The New One (Broadway, US Tour); Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme in 2002, [title of show] in 2008, the touring and Broadway productions of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the off-Broadway hit De La Guarda, and the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story.

In 1995 Mr. McCollum co-founded the Producing Office, and has since created Alchemation, a theatrical and media producing company committed to new work. Mr. McCollum was trained at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and earned his Master’s degree in film producing from the Peter Stark Program at the University of Southern California. In 1995, he received the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Commercial Theatre Producing. 

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Lucas McMahon


Vice President

Lucas McMahon has worked at Alchemation since 2012.  His current Alchemation projects include producing Mrs. Doubtfire and serving as US Executive Producer of SIX.  Lucas’s past producing credits include The Play That Goes Wrong (Broadway, Off-Broadway and National Tour) and Mike Birbiglia’s The New One (Broadway and National Tour).  Lucas was the associate producer for Hand to God (Broadway and West End) and Something Rotten! (Broadway and National Tour).  He is Executive Producer of Netflix’s Mike Birbiglia: The New One.  Lucas originally hails from the suburbs of Boston and is a proud alumnus of Phillips Academy Andover and Northwestern University.  He is a member of the Broadway League and serves on the Intra-Industry/Road Presenters Committee.  When not inside a theater, Lucas can be found reading comic books, procuring iced coffee, or yelling about The Bachelor (and related programs).