Hedwig Creator John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell

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John Cameron Mitchell is a prolific director, writer, and actor who is best known for creating HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, available for a limited time on Revry.. He has also worked on other films such as SHORTBUS and RABBIT HOLE. John Cameron Mitchell has worked on the stage, in television, and of course in film. There is no one else like him.

What are you best known for?

I think I am best known for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, in which I wrote, directed, and starred in.

What is the first thing you performed in?

The first role I remember playing was the Virgin Mary in a boys boarding school in Scotland in 1973. The best boy soprano got the role of lead nativity mother, I remember singing “Sleep Holy Babe upon thy Mother’s Breast.” And the other boys were much more tittering about the fact that I said the word “breast” then that I was in drag, because that was tradition. And that was not too far as a stone’s throw to Hedwig.

What are you working on that no one knows about yet?

I am working on another fictional podcast series, not a musical like my other podcast Anthem Homunculus. I am also playing Joe Exotic in the TIGER KING adaptation which comes out in March on The Peacock Channel with Kate McKinnon as Carol Baskin.