October 21 - November 6, 2022
Adam Goldthwaite returns as Hedwig in the genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation. “Internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt is an East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation. With a pulsing score and electrifying performances, Hedwig is a funny, powerful story of being yourself, even when the world tries to tear you down.
“Dynamite! This frisky, raunchy fable of love, loss, fury and freedom thrives.”
—Daily News
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL (Writer) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. Best known as the writer, director and star of the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, he portrayed the role of Joe Exotic in the Peacock limited series Joe vs. Carole in 2022.
STEPHEN TRASK (Music & Lyrics) is an American musician and composer who graduated from Wesleyan University. He was the music director and house band member at the New York City club Squeezebox, where they performed with stars such as Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone. Trask composed the music and lyrics for the stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, real-life band Cheater performed as Hedwig's band "The Angry Inch". He received an Obie Award for the play and a Grammy Award nomination for the movie.
CRAIG WILLIS (Director; Producing Artistic Director) has been at the helm of Oregon Contemporary Theatre since 2003. Craig has an MFA in Directing and a PhD in Dramatic Literature/Theory from the University of Oregon. In 2008, he received an Oregon Arts Commission fellowship to train with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Craig’s OCT directing credits include: Jonathan Tolins's Buyer & Cellar, Jen Silverman's The Roommate, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, David Ives's Venus in Fur, Steve Yockey's Blackberry Winter, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird, Nathan Alan Davis's Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, Nina Raine’s Tribes, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Next To Normal, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty’s Avenue Q, Geoffrey Nauffts’s Next Fall, Itamar Moses’s The Four of Us, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, David Auburn’s Proof and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. His scenic designs for OCT include: The Flick, Becky’s New Car, The Seagull, Ordinary Daysand I Am My Own Wife.
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Adam Goldthwaite returns as Hedwig in the genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation. “Internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig Schmidt is an East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation. With a pulsing score and electrifying performances, Hedwig is a funny, powerful story of being yourself, even when the world tries to tear you down.
“Dynamite! This frisky, raunchy fable of love, loss, fury and freedom thrives.”
—Daily News
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