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The Man, The Myth, The Genius.


Short bio courtesy of Wikipedia


John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American writer, actor, and director.

Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. The son of a retired general in the U.S. Army, he grew up in army bases and in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His mother is from Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a young woman.

He wrote Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an off-Broadway musical play about Hedwig, a transgendered rock musician chasing after an ex-lover who plagiarized her songs, in 1998. Three years later, he directed the feature film version of the play, casting himself as Hedwig. He also starred as Dickon in the Broadway musical version of The Secret Garden and can be heard on the original cast recording.

After the success of Hedwig, Mitchell expressed an interest in financing, writing, and directing a film which would be of high quality, but would incorporate explicit sex in a naturalistic way. In 2005, the film, called Shortbus, began pre-production. Mitchell also executive produced the film Tarnation, a critically praised and award-winning documentary about the life of a gay man named Jonathan Caouette.

Cameron Mitchell, who is openly gay, currently lives in New York City.




Another short bio courtesy of InfoPlease


writer, director
Born: 4/21/1963
Birthplace: El Paso, Texas

After a transient childhood moving every two years with his career army dad and family, Mitchell graduated from Northwestern University and headed for California where he developed a steady career playing bit roles in TV sitcoms (McGuyver, The Twilight Zone, Law & Order). On Broadway he starred in the original production of Six Degrees of Separation. With musician Stephen Trask he created the character Hedwig for a New York drag show. The two went on to make an off-Broadway musical about Hedwig the German transsexual, victim of a botched sex job, and her rock & roll band. After three years off-Broadway, Hedwig and the Angry Inch the movie arrived in theaters in 2001 and quickly established a cult status akin to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It also earned Mitchell a Best Director Award at the Sundance Film Festival and a Teddy Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Feature. Mitchell has moved oncurrent projects include an animated children's movie and an adult videobut he acknowledges his debt to Hedwig for releasing him from his drab journeyman's existence as an actor.