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John Cameron Mitchell
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor Born: April 21, 1963 in El Paso, TX Biography:Behind every successful transsexual glam rocker there must be a vision, and in the case of Hedwig, the titular transsexual glam rock heroine of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", that vision belonged to actor, director, and writer "John Cameron Mitchell". "Mitchell", who, with composer "Stephen Trask", first brought Hedwig to life back in the early '90s as an act at the Squeezebox, one of New York's most famed drag bars, spent several years on-stage as the star of the successful off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, winning two Obie awards in the process, before adapting the play for the big screen. When the film version of Hedwig premiered at the 2001 Sundance Festival, the story of Hedwig, the East German victim of a botched sex change operation with an unhappy love life and equally disastrous career, won "Mitchell" both the festival's Directing Award and Audience Award, as well as his... Full Biography
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