John Cameron Mitchell
Filmmaker, Actor & Writer
John Cameron Mitchell directed, starred in and co-wrote, with Stephen Trask, the musical film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), for which he received the Best Director Award at the Sundance Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor. His recent Broadway production garnered the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of Musical and a 2015 Special Tony for his return to the role. His latest work is the radio-cinema podcast Anthem: Homunculus.
The lost practice of face-to-face communication has made the world a more extreme place.
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Why the culture that destroyed attention spans is now turning to podcasts.
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The future of cinema in the age of 3-D blockbusters and digital downloads.
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For his first “mainstream” film (“Rabbit Hole”), the indie director tried to make the kind of small, quiet art picture that defined the mainstream in the ‘70s.
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Take Greek drama, Shakespearean comedy, and Kabuki theater, stir in some punk rock, and you’ll get a genre audiences love.
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“An embarrassing kind of conformism” comes with full LGBT assimilation into the mainstream, says the actor and filmmaker. “Being queer is not enough,” he says “Certainly it’s not interesting enough.”
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Awkward fumblings, outrageous coincidences, and finding a place in the world as a gay man.
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Contending with discrimination and AIDS panic as part of the first generation of “out” gay people.
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The “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” creator ponders the “ongoing understanding and quest” of love.
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The creator and star of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” discusses what the project meant to him personally, and how he feels about returning to it 10 years later.
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The filmmaker hates to think himself as an “auteur,” but prefers the relaxation and openness that comes with working independently.
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How to be a director actors love, and an actor that won’t annoy a director to death.
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A conversation with the filmmaker, actor, and writer.
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