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John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963) is an American writer, actor, and director.

Mitchell was born in El Paso, Texas. The son of a retired general in the U.S. Army, he grew up on army bases and in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he attended Catholic schools. His mother is from Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a young woman.

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. In 2005, Mitchell also directed the Scissor Sisters video of Filthy/Gorgeous, which was banned from American MTV for its explicitly sexual content.

Mitchell, who is openly gay, currently lives in New York City.

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