Birth Place: El Paso, TX, USA
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In 1998, Mitchell wrote (along with composer Stephen Trask) and starred in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an Obie Award-winning off-Broadway rock musical about a genderqueer East German rock musician chasing after an ex-lover who plagiarized her songs.
Three years later, he directed and starred in the feature-film version of the play for which he won Best Director at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. His performance was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
Mitchell's first professional stage role was Huckleberry Finn in a 1985 Organic Theater adaptation at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. His first New York acting role was Huck Finn in the Broadway musical Big River (1985). He originated the role of Dickon on Broadway in The Secret Garden, and appeared in the original cast of the off-Broadway musical Hello Again. He received Drama Desk nominations for both roles, and can be heard on the original cast recordings for each.
He appeared in the original cast of John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (both off- and on-Broadway), and starred in Larry Kramer's off-Broadway sequel to The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me, for which he received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination.
Mitchell's early television work includes guest-starring roles in Daybreak, MacGyver, Head of the Class, Law & Order, The New Twilight Zone, Freddy's Nightmares, The Equalizer, Our House, The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story, and The Stepford Children. He was a regular cast member on the 1996 Fox sitcom Party Girl, and was the long-running voice for Sydney, an animated kangaroo that appeared in commercials for Dunk-a-roos cookies.
Starring and co-starring film roles include a homicidal new waver in Band of the Hand (1986), a Polish immigrant violinist in Misplaced (1990), and a teen Lothario poet in Book of Love (1990). Mitchell had a single line ("Delivery!") in Spike Lee's Girl Six (1996) as a man auditioning for a pornographic film. Mitchell is a founding member of the Drama Department Theater Company, for which he adapted and directed Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth starring Cynthia Nixon and Peter Sarsgaard.
[1986]Band of the Hand J.L.
[1986]One More Saturday Night Teenager #2
[1988]Higher Education Student #1 John Mitchell
[1989]Misplaced Jacek
[1990]Book of Love Floyd
[1996]Girl 6 Rob
[1997]David Searching Man with Fruit
[2001]Hedwig and the Angry Inch Hedwig
[2006]Shortbus director
[2013]Interior. Leather Bar. story consultant
[2016]My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea Brent Daniels
[2017]How to Talk to Girls at Parties producer
Girls David Pressler-Goings
Head of the Class Manfred Lutz, Manfred
Shrill Gabe Parrish
The Good Fight Felix Staples
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig And The Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell , Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell, The Destiny of Me
John Cameron Mitchell, The Destiny of Me
John Cameron Mitchell has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows.
John Cameron Mitchell has not appeared in the West End
Special Tony Award (Tony Awards) , Outstanding Actor - Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Hedwig and the Angry Inch , Special Citations (Obie Awards) for Hedwig And The Angry Inch , Best Actor - Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Hedwig and the Angry Inch Performance (Obie Awards) for The Destiny of Me and Outstanding Actor - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Destiny of Me .
Special Tony Award (Tony Awards) Special Citations (Obie Awards) for Hedwig And The Angry Inchand Performance (Obie Awards) for The Destiny of Me.
John Cameron Mitchell has written 1 shows including Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Bookwriter).
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