John Cameron Mitchell - Biography

Last Editor: hiddenangel85				John Cameron Mitchell Biography -   Name : John Cameron Mitchell Profession : Actor/ Writer Birth Details : born April 21, 1963 Personal quotes : "I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent joke

John Cameron Mitchell Trivia -

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1991" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 43. Named one of People Magazine's 'Breakthrough Stars of 2001'. Brother of Colin Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell Detailed Biography -

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. Amazingly, he also appeared as the gentle country lad, 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.