
American writer, director, actor. Mitchell, the son of a U.S. Army general and a Scottish mother, grew up on various army bases, including Berlin; later the family lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended a Catholic school. Since the mid-1980s, he has worked as a theatre actor and director in New York City and played small roles in television and film productions. Among other things, he directed a play by Tennessee Williams. From 1991, he appeared in the original Broadway production of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical adaptation of The Secret Garden, which won several Tony Awards. In the early 1990s, together with musician Stephen Trask, he developed the character of Hedwig, a transgender rock musician who grew up in East Berlin, for performances in the New York drag bar Squeezebox. This led to the successful Off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1998, which won two Obie Awards, and three years later to the film version of the musical, again with himself in the title role. The film premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Director's and Audience Awards, and the play won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award. At the 2002 Chlotrudis Awards, he won the prize for best leading actor. At the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) in 2001, the film was shown in the ‘PANORAMA’ section and won the Teddy Award. In 2003, he produced the film Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette, which was honoured as best documentary film by the US National Society of Film Critics, among others. In 2004, Mitchell shot the music video for the Scissor Sisters' single Filthy/Gorgeous with stars from the New York drag scene. The clip was not shown on American MTV due to its explicit sexual depictions.

The Hooping Life

サンドマン

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

The Twilight Zone

冒険野郎マクガイバー

Nicole Kidman : les yeux grand ouverts

ザ・グッド・ファイト

モーツァルト・イン・ザ・ジャングル

Totally Gay!

イエロージャケッツ

ヘドウィグ・アンド・アングリーインチ

LAW&ORDER

The Dreamer of Oz

Freddy's Nightmares

The Equalizer

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

VINYL -ヴァイナル-

Danny Says

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig

シティ・オン・ファイア

ヌードの映画史~黎明期から現代へ~

Gifted and Challenged: The Making of 'Shortbus'

GIRLS/ガールズ

Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

ショートバス

L'étincelle : une histoire des luttes LGBT+

Shrill

Band of the Hand

A Friendship in Vienna

パーティで女の子に話しかけるには

모어

Reclaim the Flag

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Book of Love

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

Daybreak

Indie Sex

Girl 6

David Searching

The Stepford Children

Joe vs Carole

Dr. Jackie

One More Saturday Night

Lance Loud!: A Death in An American Family

The House of Venus Show

John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Impresario

Broadway: The Next Generation

Apparition of the Eternal Church

Heaven Above Rowen

The Roommate

Lisbon

Ron Forever

Cockroach

Everybody Wants to Be Gen X