WHO’S WHO in the CAST
KEVIN McCOLLUM (Producer) 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. He is currently represented on
Broadway with the Olivier Award-winning The Play
That Goes Wrong. He produced Something Rotten!
(Broadway, national tour); Hand to God (Broadway,
West End); Motown: The Musical (Broadway, West
End and national tour); The Drowsy Chaperone in
2006, which won five Tony Awards; Baz Luhrmann’s
production of Puccini’s La bohème 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; the recent hit revival of West Side
Story; and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. 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.
J.J. ABRAMS (Producer) is the founder of Bad
Robot Productions. A writer, director and/or producer
of television series such as “Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost,”
“Castle Rock” and “Westworld” and films such as
Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the
Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and Cloverfield franchises.
Abrams is currently directing, producing and
co-writing (with Chris Terrio) Star Wars: Episode IX.
Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath, co-CEO of Bad
Robot, live in Los Angeles and have three children.
KENNY WAX (Producer) is a triple Olivier Awardwinning
London-based producer, currently serving
a three-year term as the President of the Society of
London Theatre. His musical Top Hat won three
Olivier Awards including Best New Musical from its
seven nominations. His production of Once on This
Island won Best New Musical in 1995 from its four
nominations and The Play That Goes Wrong won Best
New Comedy at the Olivier Awards in 2015 and is
still playing in the West End, on a UK tour and has
just been extended on Broadway, where it won a Tony
Award for best set design. Peter Pan Goes Wrong was
nominated for an Olivier in 2016 and The Comedy
About a Bank Robbery is now into its third year at the
Criterion Theatre in London. Kenny has just opened a
new musical, Six, about Henry VIII’s wives, transferring
from the Edinburgh Festival into the West End.
Later this year he will present the first staged production
of The Worst Witch, based on the books by Jill
Murphy. In the U.S. in 2018/19 Kenny will present
Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Around the World in 80 Days
and Mr Popper’s Penguins.
STAGE PRESENCE LTD. (Producer) is delighted
to be part of the team presenting Mischief Comedy
shows on Broadway and all across the United States.
CATHERINE SCHREIBER (Producer) is a twotime
Tony-winning and Oliver-winning international
producer; Broadway Global Producer of the
Year, 2017. Productions: Broadway: Network, Pretty
Woman; Off-Broadway: Lead Producer The Play That
Goes Wrong. Recent (U.K.) Lead Producer: Company;
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Heisenberg.
Catherine is most proud of bringing The Scottsboro
Boys to London. Winner: London Critics’ Circle
Award, Evening Standard Award. Nominated for seven
Olivier Awards, including Best Musical. Tony winner:
Clybourne Park, Angels in America. Olivier Award:
Company (2019). Six Tony nominations include
Fiddler on the Roof, The Scottsboro Boys, Next Fall,
Peter and the Starcatcher. Five Olivier nominations
include Dreamgirls, Show Boat, The Scottsboro Boys,
People Places and Things. Upcoming: The King’s
Speech, The Scottsboro Boys (Alabama), Executive
Producer: Made in Kent, Documentary.
KEN DAVENPORT (Co-Producer). Once on
This Island (Tony Award), Gettin’ the Band Back
Together, Groundhog Day, Spring Awakening (Tony
nomination), It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, Godspell,
Altar Boyz, The Awesome ’80s Prom, Daddy Long
Legs and more. Executive Producer for North
America of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful
Group. Created “Be a Broadway Star” board game
(available on Amazon), DidHeLikeIt.com and author
of the blog TheProducersPerspective.com.
LUCAS McMAHON (Producer) is thrilled to
help spread Mischief’s brand of mayhem across
America! He has worked with Kevin McCollum at
Alchemation since 2012. Other credits include The
Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway, Something
Rotten! (Broadway and national tour) and Hand to
God (Broadway and West End). He is a proud alumnus
of Northwestern University. He would like to
thank his family and friends for letting him believe
he is right when is often so wrong.
MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT (Co-Producer)
is Gregory Rae, Carl D. White and Tyrus Emory.
Credits: The Normal Heart (Tony Award), Hedwig
and the Angry Inch (Tony Award) and many others.
Upcoming: The Lightning Thief: The Percy
Jackson Musical, Loch Ness, Home Street Home.
MartianEntertainment.com.
JACK LANE (Co-Producer). Broadway: Peter
and the Starcatcher (Tony nomination), Fun
Home (Tony Award), The Humans (Tony Award),
The Play That Goes Wrong and The Prom. Off-
Broadway: Shear Madness. Jack is the Executive
Producer and co-founder of Stages St. Louis, a
32-year-old regional theater.
DOUBLE GEMINI PRODUCTIONS
(Co-Producer). Wendy Federman and Carl
Moellenberg have collectively garnered 18 Oscars
(that is what they call them, right?). Career highlights:
Wendy doing the 100-yard dash in a long red dress at
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