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    John Cameron Mitchell 20 Years After 'Hedwig'

    Twenty years after his musical cult hit, Mitchell is staying busy with a new film, a new tour and a new musical podcast.
    by Anna Menta May 25, 2018 4 minutes
    Director John Cameron Mitchell (right) and cinematographer Frankie DeMarco on the set of 'How to Talk to Girls at Parties.' The film, Mitchell's fourth, is loosely based on a Neil Gaiman short story of the same name.
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    John Cameron Mitchell didn’t want to embark on a world tour at the age of 55. “The joke is, I used to be a tour de force, and now I’m forced to tour,” he says with a laugh.

    You might think with the rise of the LGBTQ movement, TV hits like Orange Is the New Black and Transparent, and more and more critically acclaimed films celebrating the queer experience (Moonlight, Tangerine, Call Me by Your Name, etc.), the co-creator and star of the gender-bending musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch would be luxuriating on his laurels. Instead, he’s hitting the road for a solo tour.

    Mitchell conceived , the story of an East German transgender—a film he described at the time as employing “sex in new cinematic ways because it’s too interesting to leave to porn.” (’s Peter Travers, however, admiringly “hard-core porn with a soft heart.”) And in 2014,  was revived for its first Broadway run. In 2015, Mitchell received a Special Tony Award for his return to the role, after sold-out stints by Neil Patrick Harris and Michael C. Hall.

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